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What do grown-ups mean by a ‘short’ walk?
Kick a ball and climb a tree – [‘If Daddy says it’ll take about twenty, that means it’s probably twice that far – say forty mins. to reach our car.’] …
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Courtship and the next generation
In years gone by a lad would court the girl whose love and hand he sought in marriage: she had time to think– had she a liking to be caught by this...
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Longing to Belong
[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series] Estrangement, distance, alienation, suspiciousness between each nation; in family, and friendships’ strain:...
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Daffodil
[this poem is based on/inspired by/semi-translation of a Welsh poem by I D Hooson (1880-1948)] I saw you in the wild, dancing … I saw you in a vase, still …
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Waiting now, but still glad to comfort
“Come, sit on my lap’,” said the old lady, her legs now fragile and thin, her mind back in youth and the enjoyment to a tired child she could bring...
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You subtly show the
Posted on Thu, 05 Sep 2024
You subtly show the inadequacy of really trying to 'receate' a person in film-image and real-time AI-generated dialogue, and his confused unease, leaving the reader to contemplate how unreal any further contact with such a 'hologram' would be....
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So sorry you are going
Posted on Tue, 03 Sep 2024
So sorry you are going through such a time, Jenny. A bit like a tunnel in itself. I know what being confined is like, and some difficult pain-pressures, but not like you are enduring at present. I suppose pain relief maybe brings a little easing...
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He's reluctant to open the
Posted on Tue, 03 Sep 2024
He's reluctant to open the message, but then to open the link. That latter is what is dangerous, isn't it (as I've often been told!). So there's no danger to opening the message? Did he? And then hover over whether to click on the link, because...
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Sensitive telling Seems to
Posted on Wed, 14 Aug 2024
Sensitive telling Seems to have an echo of the parable of the Lost Sheep. Rhiannon
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One of our grandsons has just
Posted on Mon, 02 Sep 2024
One of our grandsons has just started a year in Budapest postgrad and has been astonished at the heat, but his eczema is much better in it. Rhiannon
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I was helping with 'help for
Posted on Fri, 30 Aug 2024
I was helping with 'help for families with difficulties with young children' at a time when Asperghers started to get mentioned in meetings of helpers. And I kept thinking as aspects of it were mentioned, 'Oh, that sounds like my youngest son's...
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So many memories there to be
Posted on Wed, 28 Aug 2024
So many memories there to be touched and remembered together and talked of, and still the delight of doing so together whatever ups and downs they had gone through together down the many years. Rhiannon
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It certainly had a shape and
Posted on Fri, 16 Aug 2024
It certainly had a shape and completeness though stirring the thoughts of 'could it have been otherwise' and 'what brought it all about'. I think what was most shocking, but realistic, was the confession that he had deliberately provoked their...
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It is a real problem! My
Posted on Fri, 16 Aug 2024
It is a real problem! My frustration is that parents are so often talking to their young children while looking at their phone. Children need eye-contact and the feeling of undivided attention and interest. Rhiannon
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I seem to have missed this
Posted on Wed, 31 Jul 2024
I seem to have missed this before. You always write smoothly. I still think that the intrigue of claimed mysterious sightings, whether trickery, imagination or real are a distraction from investigating the mysteries of life whose sollutions have...
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