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Old Zealand's Secret Beaches
Ok they aren’t really secret, but if you drive on the roads near the Zeeland coast you’d never know they were there. When I came to live in Belgium...
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Heracleum Metnegazzianum
A mass of pure white blooms parachute a hidden menace: Look but don’t touch! Admire from a safe distance. A Caucasian invader brought to titivate the...
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Dobe Island; My Place in the Sun
I have no copies of my island so here is Gran Canaria courtesy of Wiki
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Why Me?
What have I done to deserve this? First you bundled me in the car and took me to that dreaded place where every year the nice lady sticks needles in...
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New Directions (36)
‘If that’s where he lives we should get over there now.’ I said already getting up. ‘Easy there Lone Ranger, let’s find out a little more about the...
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Congrats on pick of the week
Posted on Thu, 30 Sep 2021
A very informative poem about a mostly overlooked fish described in a very delicate way. Good to see these important small small creatures brought into the limelight. Nicely done.
Ed
Read full commentPosted in Stone Loach
I'm back :)
Posted on Sun, 10 May 2020
There seems to be some very good poems on here recently, but I have to say this is one of the best poems I have ever read on here. If it doesn't make poem of the month there's no justice.
Anyway, that aside, what struck me is the picture...
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Mornin' Harry
Posted on Tue, 16 Oct 2018
I read with great interest your story and your replies to other comments and it got me thinking about your situation and those with the similar problems.
Now, I don't want to be-little autism by any means, but it looks to me like Aspergers...
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I've been a bit rough lately and haven't followed ABC for a week
Posted on Fri, 09 Feb 2018
This morning I found this gem. This is so visual to me. I see everything in black and white, not because it's like an old movie or an early Ken Loach play of the week, but because it tells a story, or should that be the story, of mining...
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Well said Ewan
Posted on Tue, 15 Jul 2025
Sometimes I think I must be the only person in the World that has never looked at Facebook:twitterX:ticktok:instagram. I can manage without all that tonto shite. (so far)
I was a member of a writing (now defunked) site so badly managed...
Read full commentPosted in 3 oz of Insanity
Very thought provoking read
Posted on Thu, 12 Jun 2025
I get the idea that twins are connected from the moment the cell divided after it was concieved. I was not a twin and my brother was born fourteen years after me, but I still feel a special sense of connection despite growing up separately. It's...
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Wow!
Posted on Wed, 11 Jun 2025
That would make a brilliant story for this IP golden cherries for you
Read full commentPosted in What You Don't Know Don't . . . .
Well said, I couldn't agree more
Posted on Wed, 11 Jun 2025
1984 should be on every school's curriculum and installed in every new smartphone °° IMO
great poem
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By the way Maxine
Posted on Mon, 09 Jun 2025
If you wiki codliver oil you cay copy and paste a pic of a jar of coldliver oil legally as it is licenced as a free to use image from the welcome foundation
you can also get a pic of a virol jar on wiki commons to legally upload
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For me virol and codliver oil were disgusting
Posted on Mon, 09 Jun 2025
I didn't know they were still available
IMO these horrible Victorian throwback should be banned along with syrup of figs
i blame my grandmother for my fear of those products she liked to dish out
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