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I have 134 stories published in 11 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 484977 times and 198 of my stories have been cherry picked.
1027 of my 4,547 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 1115 votes

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Assorted writers' groups, the odd anthology, occasional readings.  Lots of looking out of the window.  Hello, and thanks for dropping by.

FB: www.facebook.com/janeayrie.writer  BlueSky: janeayrie@bsky.social

Readings of Episodes One and Two of the Pad Life Journals are now available on Sound Cloud: https://soundcloud.com/user-968566758   More to follow!

 

 

 

 

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Cherry

Sibelius Lobey (Part 3)

One Saturday, in one small town, in the summer of 1970. Picture: Pixabay Creative Commons
Cherry

Sibelius Lobey (Part Two)

One Saturday in a small town in the summer of 1970. Picture: Pixabay Creative Commons
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Story of the week

Sibelius Lobey (Part 1)

One Saturday in one small town, in the summer of 1970. Picture: Pixabay Creative Commons
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Pick of the Month

Pad Life 12: Summer's Here!

It's toes weather... Picture: Pixabay Creative Commons
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Pad Life 11: I Can't Find anything Funny To Say About This

Sometimes the frivolity just runs out. Picture: Pixabay Creative Commons

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1027 of my comments have received 1115 Great Feedback votes

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Pick of the Day

Posted on Fri, 24 Dec 2021

As has already been mentioned, this is the best yet of an already very enjoyable series - and it's our Christmas Eve Pick of the Day! Please do share/retweet if you enjoy it too.

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Posted in A Christmas Boris

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Beautiful poem and an amazing

Posted on Sun, 28 Nov 2021

Beautiful poem and an amazing gift! 

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Posted in A Beech poem for Di

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This is lovely, Jenny. It

Posted on Wed, 27 Oct 2021

This is lovely, Jenny. It struck a real chord with me - in a few days it will be the anniversary of when I lost my dad, and you capture so well how those moments stay with us, happy and sad. Until my parents died, I was a bit sceptical of people...

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Posted in Blessings Dear Late Mum And Dad

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It would be interesting to

Posted on Fri, 03 Sep 2021

It would be interesting to know how the chocolate sauce registered on the German Shepherd's pie chart of happiness. Equal with having an enormous crap, watching your owner pick it up, and then doing another one? Maybe not.

Very much...

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Posted in Pie Chart Man

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Pick of the Day

Posted on Sun, 29 Aug 2021

A beautiful, thoughtful meditation on the cycle of life - this is our Facebook and Twitter Pick of the Day! Please do share/retweet if you enjoy it too.

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Posted in In The Beginning (for Monarch butterflies)

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Pick of the Day

Posted on Tue, 24 Aug 2021

This is our Facebook and Twitter Pick of the Day. Please do share/retweet if you found it as moving as I did.

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Posted in Kabul Airport

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Marvellous, Drew. Shan't be

Posted on Sat, 03 Jul 2021

Marvellous, Drew. Shan't be forking out to take my double vaccinated self to a writers' retreat in Corfu any time soon then. 

'In the interest of intellectual freedom and expression for two weeks you try writing in the nude. You are thrown...

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Posted in You

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Well done with this, Penny -

Posted on Thu, 01 Jul 2021

Well done with this, Penny - still loving it! I particularly enjoy the way you blend the modern - ordering online and the car - with something very very much older. And all the lovely details which really bring the characters and the setting to...

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Posted in "Willow's Tail" 12

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It is such a complicated

Posted on Wed, 12 May 2021

It is such a complicated issue, and pushing further and further into the habitats of other species is not the answer to any of our problems. In fact it may make them worse -  it facilitates the 'jumping' of diseases to humans from other animals...

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Posted in The Last Elephant

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I love these - they take me

Posted on Wed, 05 May 2021

I love these - they take me right out of my ordinary day and give me a bit of magic and laughter.

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Posted in "Willow's Tail" 6

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