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Now Is The Summer Of Our Discontent
A bit of a rant. The odd bit of totally unnecessary foul language. The views expressed are strictly the author's own.
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As You Wish
If your life is unbearable, what do you wish for? Rewrite of something posted in response to an IP nine years ago. Old IPs never die, they just get much needed edits...
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A Drama And A Crisis
I don’t know. You take a week off to have Covid and return to a world where the Post Office has grown horns and a tail. The arts strike again.
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Sweet Contemplation (Part 2 of 2) (IP)
I knew what Ben had been thinking. He was thinking it was his job now, his inheritance. I hadn’t gone near the vegetable garden after the night I saw Mum.
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Sweet Contemplation (Part 1 of 2) (IP)
We’ll never know why Dad went out to the vegetable garden. Maybe to see how the cabbages were doing, or to plan the next crop. Maybe just to think. He used to say that being out among living things just quietly growing was a good exercise in contemplation.
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I become unbearably smug when
Posted on Tue, 15 Jul 2025
I become unbearably smug when I'm in unfamiliar territory with my offspring and they're pissing about with map things on their phones and getting very confused and saying 'just a minute...', and I just ask someone the way. On the other hand, it...
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Story of the Week
Posted on Thu, 12 Jun 2025
This is also our wonderful Story of the Week! Congratulations!
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You've really captured both
Posted on Thu, 05 Jun 2025
You've really captured both the frantic scrabbling and the exhaustion that characterises so much of what's around us now. I can't remember the exact details, but I think our brains have evolved to deal with only a certain amount of information (...
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Pick of the Day
Posted on Sat, 22 Mar 2025
This lovely piece, with its twist at the end, is our Facebook, X and Bluesky Pick of the Day! Please do share if you enjoy it too.
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Pick of the Day
Posted on Fri, 28 Feb 2025
Another brilliant episode, and it's our Facebook, X and Bluesky Pick of the Day! Please do share.
Jane - I hope the picture's OK. I know it reflects only a small part of the story, but it was such a wonderfully surreal moment it just...
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Pick of the Day
Posted on Sat, 15 Feb 2025
This is our Facebook, X and Bluesky Pick of the Day! Please do share if you enjoy it too.
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Story of the Week
Posted on Wed, 06 Nov 2024
Very funny, very surreal, and totally unrelated to events in the real world. This is our Story of the Week! Congratulations!
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Keep on with the rage. I've
Posted on Sat, 12 Oct 2024
Keep on with the rage. I've found that retirement is brilliant, as long as you keep moving forward. If your circumstances allow you to do so.
I've gone off wild weather a bit since yesterday, when I was wild-weathered for nearly an hour...
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I'd missed a few episodes, so
Posted on Sat, 14 Sep 2024
I'd missed a few episodes, so I went back to the beginning to remind myself, which was brilliant because I got to enjoy this all over again! Your characters are so natural, and the plot flows so well. I love the way you create this world.
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Story of the Week
Posted on Fri, 13 Sep 2024
This is also our Story of the Week. Congratulations!
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