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Little Christmas Tree (IP)
Faith, Hope and Love In this house we always made a big thing of Christmas with a tree and plentiful colourful decorations and the traditional...
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Earning a Lashing
Grade One Day Zero From the back of the classroom W. from next door was joyfully waving for me to join him at the back clearly he was going to give...
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Future-Time Travel
For example, predict the Lotto numbers and seal it unseen in a safe box and open the safe only after the draw. If the prediction was correct it could...
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Counting Distinct Colourings
Counting distinct colourings of physical objects with symmetries Combinatorics is the art of counting without counting it is the ability to do very...
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Racheltjie de Beer
Scattered in the bushveld there are dozens of termite heaps hundreds of mounds of colonies of termites living off the scarce vegetation. Aardvark (...
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?logic
Posted on Mon, 23 Mar 2026
"He’d been married three times which meant that there were three poor women in the town who, at some point, had agreed to sleep with him."
Not quite true, from what friends tell me!
Good story Terence. Unexpected ending, twist hey,...
Read full commentPosted in Penny’s Pass the Story - Part Four
Lovit!
Posted on Sun, 24 Aug 2025
Lovit! " and I can't sleep right so I had a pillow fight" she knows what she's talking about!
- Tom
Read full commentPosted in Oh it's the middle night
Sorry Di I honestly did not mean
Posted on Sun, 06 Feb 2022
Sorry Di I honestly did not mean to criticise your work at all and I don't recall that I ever have. It is a great poem. But please keep in mind any good teacher knows one often learns more from your mistakes and by the way I'm also out of a job....
Read full commentPosted in February Rainbow
Those old magic photos
Posted on Mon, 07 Oct 2024
Those old magic photos Jenny! I think they call them kodak moments. Something like that. These days people have so many photos they're hard to find Hey? What strikes me how happy we are me & my brother on all of them there are hundreds codac...
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enough
Posted on Tue, 27 Aug 2024
You never know what is enough, untill you know what is too much / The road excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
I read these in poems of William Blake, in the proverbs of hell.
Good luck! Tom
Read full commentPosted in Never Enough?
The elephant and ant
Posted on Tue, 25 Jun 2024
The elephant and ant were walking together over the bridge, the ant said "We make this bridge shake hey?!"
We usually say an elephant "trumpets" or such, but you can say "roar" if you like why not?
Keep well, greetings from Africa!...
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Yes
Posted on Tue, 14 Sep 2021
Yes. Beautiful ending, man's best friend. Heartbreaking sometimes we feel a duty for mourning. And indeed, it is much more noble to live for someone than to die for someone, sometimes living takes great courage.
Keep well Paul! Tom
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No doubt inspired
Posted on Mon, 16 Mar 2020
No doubt inspired by Jules Verne's classic scifi novel 20,000 leagues under the sea. Also makes one think of Jacques C. and the research ship the Calypso.
Good work, original too! We are in, looking out, man and fish roles reversed! Who's...
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it's good to be young
Posted on Fri, 14 Mar 2014
It's good to be young and insane.
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Amazing
Posted on Fri, 10 Jul 2026
Amazing, Rhiannon! Tom
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