Frances Macaulay Forde

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Yellow Days

By Frances Macaulay Forde on Sun, 07 Sep 2025

PHOTO: My sketch of yellow fields of Canola in Spring. Yellow Days Driving through Toodyay in late August before Spring arrives officially yellow...

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Garfunkle's Restaurant

By Frances Macaulay Forde on Thu, 28 Aug 2025

Breakfast at Garfunkle’s (restaurant - Heathrow) Scene 1 blond body-perfect She wears corporate black casually draped label scarf her highlight-...

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A Second Chance

By Frances Macaulay Forde on Sat, 16 Aug 2025

A Second Chance Hearing a Corella cry as it flies across grey skies, Anticipating the squall, clear showers of life. Gutters flow from Heaven to...

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Pigs Might Fly...

By Frances Macaulay Forde on Thu, 14 Aug 2025

The result of a coffee catch-up with a friend in a wildflower cafe. We were impressed with the metal sculpture hanging in a tree and challenged each...

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Easy.

Posted on Mon, 03 Jan 2022

There's such an ease in your writing. You make it look easy when I know it's not. You cleverly wind your words into stories and reel us in. :-)

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So much information.

Posted on Sun, 17 Feb 2019

Wow - thank you for the mention of Clan MacAulay. I am in the process of tracing my family tree so this gives me (very possibly) another ancient branch.

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Congratulations!

Posted on Tue, 22 Mar 2022

Congratulations on the cherries!

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Full of 'feels'

Posted on Tue, 08 Mar 2022

Thank you Jennifer, this is a wonderfully expressed experience, shared with us all. Even the sense of freedom from the last line. My kind of poetry: many-layered, eliciting an instant but also measured response. Congratulations on the cherries...

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Salient

Posted on Tue, 15 Mar 2022

A salient piece, Marandina. Congratulations on the cherries. Wishing all safe passage to peace.

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The Easy Option...

Posted on Sun, 06 Mar 2022

...is not always 'easy'. Your clever words made me smile, Luigi. Thank you and congratulations.

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Thought provoking.

Posted on Mon, 14 Mar 2022

Inspiring, depressing, thoughtful and worrying. Thank you for such an inciteful and interesting view of the world, Jane. I often feel alien. Congratuations on the golden cherries!

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Her Troubles

Posted on Fri, 04 Feb 2022

A very well-drawn character, dragging herself from one day to the next, through the thumping rythum of her life. Clever. Sympathetic. Lots of Irish references made this piece very green. Thank you. Stay well.

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502 Kilometers

Posted on Fri, 11 Mar 2022

Such a difficult subject, so well expressed, Turlough. I haven't found words of my own to share such horror - the feelings. But you have, perfectly, so I don't need to anymore. I can share yours, thank you. Cherries well deserved too. Stay...

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A Day Trip

Posted on Thu, 10 Mar 2022

Gave me a giggle, Luigi - thank you. Sounds like your trip was in fact, perfect!