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Estival Solstice
21 st June 2021 is the day of the Summer Solstice As dawn’s first light skims skies, revealing an incandescent ball of fire, rising beyond a Heel...
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Cherry Tree
Dedicated to the cherry tree in my front garden. It brings me much joy. Audio version at https://soundcloud.com/user-62051685/cherry-tree-mp3 In the...
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Roy Batty (Tears in Rain)
This is a tribute to Roy Batty played by the late Rutger Hauer from one of my favourite movies - Blade Runner (1982) https://bladerunner.fandom.com/...
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The Sure Yank Redemption
This is a sequel to: https://www.abctales.com/story/marandina/most-vial The jet plane roared as it penetrated trans-Atlantic airspace. The ocean rose...
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The Last Elephant
Forged in bucolic harmonies, an interdependence born of millennia, a symbiosis of flora and fauna, when humanity lived as one, in a world of...
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Sounds like Alfred is overrun
Posted on Thu, 06 Jun 2024
Sounds like Alfred is overrun. I hope he finds time for his roving reports. The world needs to hear what he has to say!
Read full commentPosted in Alfred Muggins’ Easter Holiday by Alfred N.Muggins
This intriguing instalment is
Posted on Mon, 03 Jun 2024
This intriguing instalment is today's Facebook and X/Twitter Pick of the Day.
Congratulations, Ewan!
Read full commentPosted in 6 "You'll Hear My Voice, On the Wind, 'Cross the Sand"
"The cruel busybody of a
Posted on Wed, 05 Jun 2024
"The cruel busybody of a neighbour thought it a great joke to say she’d been a victim of shelling.. " Dark, yet funny.
I remember those boil-in-the-bag curries. They tasted alright.
Dear old Joan certainly had a meandering mind. So...
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This rueful reminiscense is a
Posted on Thu, 30 May 2024
This rueful reminiscense is a case of no Marley no cry and is our Facebook and Twitter/X Pick of the Day.
Congratulations!
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"Along to the incongruous
Posted on Tue, 28 May 2024
"Along to the incongruous
plantation of nine monkey puzzle trees.."
Another sumptuous hike. Enjoyed as always, Rhiannon. Beautiful photos too.
Read full commentPosted in On top of the world again!
"The girl with the softest
Posted on Mon, 27 May 2024
"The girl with the softest edges
Who summons the stars.."
The personification of "dusk".
So many inspired, beautiful lines in this like:
"Her sermon is always of endings"
Just gorgeous.
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"Sea mist over the sea and
Posted on Fri, 24 May 2024
"Sea mist over the sea and distant cliffs,
walk the cliff path awhile.
Down into a cove, see a couple of oyster catchers with their red legs
near the surf.."
That sounds like an amazing walk full of wonderful sights. I...
Read full commentPosted in East from Cwm-yr-Eglwys
I coiuld hear you reading
Posted on Fri, 24 May 2024
I could hear you reading this in my head, Ewan. Definitely one for audio. Seems so extraordinary and ridiculous calling an election in July when there's such a gulf in the polls. It's almost like giving up. Who knows? Count Binface is running...
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"Let each pretty leafy glade
Posted on Wed, 22 May 2024
"Let each pretty leafy glade and
flowing brook give sparkling
eyes a sense of genuine wonder.."
Lovely photo, wonderful sentiments.
I was right there with you on that path, Jenny :)
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"For fourteen years I endured
Posted on Sun, 19 May 2024
"For fourteen years I endured schools, but not nuns." Just finished watching Bodkin on Netflix set in Ireland. As ever, nuns gets a strange portrayal. They rarely get a good write-up taken even further by the likes of Father Ted.
Living in...
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