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Gold cherry

The Silent Witness

As many of you already know, my daughter Julia (who wrote as Overthetop1 on Abc) died suddenly in May whilst on a short unescorted outing from a Mental Health Unit. She was due to move into a care facility in the community very soon, and as yet the cause of her death is still unknown. She had been to a cafe near the hospital for a sandwich, and the cafe owner, seeing how unwell she was, followed her out. Unfortunately Julia never made it back to the ward. Later the cafe owner told her sister and I what happened before we got to the hospital. Coral Jane
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Yellow for my daughter

An edit of an old piece I want to re-post in memory of my daughter Julia Jane Macpherson who died suddenly May 18th. She also wrote on this site as Overthetop1. Coral Jane
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Poem of the week

THE ONE IN THE NEST

Nursery rhyme: "one flies east, one flies west, and one flew over the cuckoo's nest"
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Leaving

with a little help from my friends, John & Paul of course. Wednesday morning at five o'clock as the day begins - Lennon/McCartney
Poem of the week

The sadness of tulips

a bit late for Spring, or perhaps not

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76 of my comments have received 79 Great Feedback votes

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I absolutely love this.

Posted on Fri, 19 Jul 2024

I absolutely love this.
So relatable to me anyway.
I see it, I feel it.

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Posted in Rain at the Forest Cafe

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Not kind, true x

Posted on Fri, 19 Jul 2024

Not kind, true x

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I have many favourite bits

Posted on Tue, 02 Jul 2024

I have many favourite bits from this piece Terry...Crado in the wash basin (as above) being one, but possibly my favourite is Hi Risk Anus. No need to guess where my vote is NOT going.

I love that despite the recent climate induced...

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Posted in Where Have All the Flowers Gone?

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Finally got round to reading

Posted on Sun, 09 Jun 2024

Finally got round to reading this Terry. You are sickeningly good with words but managed to upturn my permanent frown into something resembling a smile.

Strange that Frank Ifield's demise didn't reach the news here. Too much politics....

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Posted in This Sort of Thing - May 2024 - Three Dart Finish

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I'm still trying to work out

Posted on Wed, 05 Jun 2024

I'm still trying to work out the link between riding a bike everywhere and being a vegetarian. I'd put in an emoji here but Samsung tablet won't let me.

Worrying that's why my podiatrist isn't doing too well with my ingrown toenails...do...

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Posted in The Spice of Life

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Brilliant! So much I can

Posted on Thu, 30 May 2024

Brilliant! So much I can relate to in this, especially the food (I don't remember being fed anything other than offal and porridge by my mother - there's a short piece about that on Abc somewhere). The other thing was the English Lit O-level...

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Posted in Bill or Bob?

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Thank you for alerting me to

Posted on Sun, 19 May 2024

Thank you for alerting me to this Terry. Now I know you better, reading snippets from your childhood fascinate me. The very mention of nuns sends shivers down my spine as in my early 20s I was sent to a convalescent home run by these terrifying...

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Posted in This Sort of Thing - The Childhood Stage

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Beautiful words. One of

Posted on Tue, 23 Apr 2024

Beautiful words. One of those poems I wish I had written.

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Posted in Doubt

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Reminds me of Julia or Sarah

Posted on Thu, 02 May 2024

Reminds me of Julia or Sarah - maybe both. Julia had the vinyl copy for sure. Bowie and wife 1 lived a street away from where Sarah lives now.

Those were the days pre the advanced technology we struggle with in the 21st century.

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Posted in Turn and Face the Strange

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Well done Golden Boy. Much

Posted on Tue, 09 Apr 2024

Well done Golden Boy. Much enjoyed.
I wonder how long storks survive and what happened to the one who delivered me to my unwilling mother?
Its ghostly presence haunts me still.

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