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Enchanted insects

By skinner_jennifer on Sat, 21 Sep 2024

Remember Grandmother's midsummer fables will prevail, tales told of fairy land "Have faith my dear,"she would say, for remnants reside in harbour of...

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Love

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Escape To Ridgeway

By skinner_jennifer on Thu, 12 Sep 2024

Flashes not bolting Thunder done booming Rain no longer popping Remoteness of peaceful healing Trail reflective in puddles appearing Strolling before...

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Love

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Contemplating Crows

By skinner_jennifer on Thu, 05 Sep 2024

Cautious crows with attentive eager eyes, I wonder! Do they engage in wistful reverie as I do; chance to daydream on what might be? Majestically they...

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Can Life Get Better?

By skinner_jennifer on Tue, 03 Sep 2024

Dear diary...This is the most awful period of my life. It's been an up hill struggle with all my health problems and no end in sight. I try to keep...

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There's a special bond

Posted on Fri, 27 Sep 2024

There's a special bond between you now and the younger version of yourself. It shines through in your writing, as Di said.you take the reader along on your journey that grabs the reader and hold their attention.

Funnily enough my dad came...

Posted in Dogsbody (1)

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Hi Jane,

Posted on Mon, 22 Jan 2024

Hi Jane,

I really felt for Vanessa when Spencer said it was his idea to cook Beef Wellington. Ooh! That's so patronizing...poor woman.

The story's coming along great and I'm definitely a Vanessa fan. Not sure about Pat and Stu...

Posted in Parcel for you...Part 15

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Hi Jean,

Posted on Thu, 30 Nov 2023

Hi Jean,

I was watching on youtube a poem read by a poet named Maya Angelou, called Still I Rise. This poem reminded me of you and your courage, when faced with the distress you're enduring.

I'm glad that the past two weeks have...

Posted in Friendly Fire

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Oh! How I yearn for the

Posted on Sat, 25 Feb 2023

Oh! How I yearn for the countryside, to be at one with the landscape. Just for a moment I was right there with you in your poem, you make it seem so breathtaking.

Thank you for sharing this gorgeous poem Rhiannon, and the photos are...

Posted in Midsummer Hill, southern end of the Malverns

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I think you've kept this

Posted on Tue, 20 Dec 2022

I think you've kept this story so real. There's only so many times you can forgive someone for their aggression, then the only action you can take, is to move on, but for so many women the fear is far too great, which is very sad.

Your...

Posted in The Last Christmas (Part Two of Two)

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This was a lovely family

Posted on Wed, 16 Nov 2022

This was a lovely family situation until the end. I have a feeling things aren't all what they seem and that is a big concern.

Looking forward to finding out more.

Jenny.

Posted in Runaway Mother chapter 13

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I too have never heard of

Posted on Wed, 02 Nov 2022

I too have never heard of chemo curls. Went through a similar experience as you when I was younger. My hair is straight too. It was when a friend asked me to be a maid of honour at her wedding in about 1978. She wanted me to have permed hair so I...

Posted in Chemo 14

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Hi David,

Posted on Mon, 24 Oct 2022

Hi David,

The whole experience could have been much worse, that was why I wanted to record the episode in a diary entry, as the whole experience could easily be forgotten or not remembered right over time. We were very lucky, if we'd been...

Posted in You Never Know

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This is such a fond elegy for

Posted on Tue, 23 Aug 2022

This is such a fond elegy for someone passing. I too am sorry for your loss Paul.

These lines stood out to me so much:-

Night comes wearing its cloak

of sable skies and constellations,

moonbeams filter through glass...

Posted in Does it Rain in Heaven?

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Much love and respect goes

Posted on Mon, 22 Aug 2022

Much love and respect goes out to anyone suffering any mental disorder. I myself nearly went through this condition in my early thirties, but managed to pull through without any tablets. It was only with the help of my health visitor taking me to...