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12 "Better Get a Travelodge"?

By Ewan on Wed, 12 Jun 2024

I find the ads a bit annoying. Don't you? (Old) Travelodge Logo used under Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International. Attribution TFE Hotels, CC BY-SA 4.0 < https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0> , via Wikimedia CommonsWikipedia. Image created at canva.com
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11 "I Just Don't Like Hastings"

By Ewan on Tue, 11 Jun 2024

No disparagement of Hastings intended. It's a character's words, not mine. Image from Flicker.com licence CC BY-NC 2.0
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10 Off at Nine

By Ewan on Mon, 10 Jun 2024

More of this, I'm afraid. BTW, I haven't used Windows for years. Not since Windows 2000. If only the image were bigger. Anyway, it's the name of the pub mentioned... Which no more exists than, well, that tree falling in the wood.
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9 Room 13

By Ewan on Fri, 07 Jun 2024

Room 13 Unlucky - or maybe lucky - for some. That's it for the week, maybe more on Monday. Image made at canva.com.
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8 That's Veterans for You

By Ewan on Fri, 07 Jun 2024

And some more... None of the characters are real, but some of the things they say and do have been done... By someone. Write what you know, eh? Image made at canva.com
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Extra big helping

Posted on Tue, 05 Dec 2023

  of your splendid diary - "eafily af good af Famuel Pepyf" Mrs Pepys.

Erm... I am probably being dim, but since прия́телка in Russian is a slightly more formal 'Gal Pal', is your lovely partner appearing pseudonymously?

NO! Don't...

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Congratulations! This is our Pick of the Day 24 Nov 2023

Posted on Thu, 23 Nov 2023

 Chilling and matter of fact at once, in a poem too!

Congratulations on being our Pick of the Day.

Please, could all readers share this on whatever SM platforms you use?

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Speaking of US/UK

Posted on Tue, 21 Nov 2023

 continuity. although Dulux is a US brand of paint too, did they ever use the Old English Sheepdog as part of their branding? The Dulux Dog was used in campaigns in AUS and NZ, but I don't think it was in the States.

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Fine,

Posted on Thu, 23 Nov 2023

chewily satisfying, language. Like the best renderings of the macabre, it is very matter of fact.

You have a typo improbably vice improbable in second stanza line 9.

Good poem.

E x

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Congratulations! This is our Pick of the Day 30th October 2023

Posted on Mon, 30 Oct 2023

Well done, glad to see you are carrying on with this.

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Chemo is awful,

Posted on Mon, 23 Oct 2023

 but it's better than the alternative. That said, anyone who is faced with a second or third round of chemotherapy in the event of a recurrence of disease, is entitled to opt for whatever is the best for them. My wife's aunt couldn't face her...

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Congratulations! This is our Pick of the Day 17th October 2023

Posted on Tue, 17 Oct 2023

 This 3rd part of an ongoing piece of writing is our pick of the day.
Please retweet/post and/or share fellow ABCTalers, so it gets the audience it deserves.

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I do like this

Posted on Tue, 17 Oct 2023

 ingenious and matter-of-fact.

I'm willing to bet by the time your narrator gets her man-bot programmed it'll be a woman. (Joking!)

Keep going

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When I was much younger ...

Posted on Fri, 13 Oct 2023

watching Fireball XL5 enthused me about spaceships and science. From age 10 (John Christopher's books) to 23 or so I read swathes of Golden and Silver Age science fiction. I joined the computer club at school. I began to read about advances in...

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No, I think

Posted on Thu, 12 Oct 2023

 a bit is probably fine. I don't know much, but it doesn't stop my enjoyment of it. I do feel I'm missing something, since my linguistic ability has never allowed me to learn to read music. It's the only language I've tried to learn that...

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