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The Vale - Chapter 5
It was so much colder back then, nothing like the soft, Southern air which I find myself gliding through so easily these days. I remember frequent...
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The Vale - Part 4 (Adam Believe)
I can remember the exact moment I saw Adam Berry. It was on the first day of secondary school and we had been instructed, via a letter in the post,...
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The Vale - Part 3
Lori’s mother, Linda, is just leaving when I return to the cave. She is a lovely woman, warm, level-headed, unassuming and ever mindful of being in...
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The Vale - Part 1 (d)
I lie in bed staring at the patterns on the ceiling, the trees twitching in the wind casting shadows of branches like veins inside a lung, pulsing...
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The Irritating Gentleman (part two)
‘Wow,’ Martin got out and looked around at the garden which was very overgrown. Everything was unnervingly tall; white shasta daisies reaching up to...
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Laycock, it's unmistakable,
Posted on Thu, 08 Jan 2026
Laycock, it's unmistakable, never changes except for more people perhaps.
Isn't it strange how some memories are branded in time, either by a photograph or your own inner files. And some people live in your memory more fully, later on in...
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There is something sad about
Posted on Wed, 07 Jan 2026
There is something sad about losing your country's currency and having the generic Euro. It was exciting having foreign currency in your hand, making little exchange calculations on your fingers as you browsed the shops and restaurants. All coins...
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They do, celticman. There is
Posted on Fri, 02 Jan 2026
They do, celticman. There is something different about them, they can heal a broken bone themselves, I think they're the only mammal that can do this. And they cope with inbreeding better than other mammals, aristocrats, East Anglians, royals etc...
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A one way ticket to Holyhead
Posted on Sat, 03 Jan 2026
A one way ticket to Holyhead or maybe Hollywood. When I was a child, I was baffled as to why we lived in Birmingham and not Harlech, the location of our annual holidays.
I suppose a girl like Bron feels that her destiny is somewhere with...
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'Funny how a rock-solid world
Posted on Fri, 02 Jan 2026
'Funny how a rock-solid world can turn upside down so quickly. It makes you wonder how we stay on our feet at all.'
How true this is. An excellent description of how an infatuation can infect us like a virus, destroying all clear thinking...
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Thank you, Insert for the
Posted on Fri, 02 Jan 2026
Thank you, Insert for the edit and the cherries, much appreciated. I know it's too late for Christmas stories but I'm always behind the curve. I was inspired by The King of the Cats hence their similar names. There is more of this story, as long...
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You've really nailed the
Posted on Tue, 02 Dec 2025
You've really nailed the season there Penny. It's so chilling but you've also given us a sense of both the power and bare beauty of mid-winter. The lady of the cold walks here in your words.
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Thanks for the cherries
Posted on Fri, 28 Nov 2025
Thanks for the cherries insert. I'm not sure if I should, he needs to accept ageing as a normal part of the human journey and then rewards far deeper than youthful looks will be unlocked.
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That was truly a thrilling
Posted on Fri, 28 Nov 2025
That was truly a thrilling read, Turlough. Makes me want to drop everything and go and take the smae sort of trip before it somehow becomes unavailable. I would be worried about the sickness though, I'm prone to migraines. At least I can read...
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Thank you Turlough. We are
Posted on Mon, 17 Nov 2025
Thank you Turlough. We are wrapped up in our little worlds I suppose. It's like there are two parallel universes, one where we catastrophise over the state of the environment and one where everything carries on as normal to maintain the economy (...
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