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"For, being green, there is great hope" (quote from Shakespeare's HENRY VI PART 2, ACT 3 SCENE 1)
Some people are angry that Just Stop Oil threw coloured cornflour at Stonehenge. Because the structure is old? A symbol of how humans have survived...
Two kinds of crying : 15th February 2024
Leaving the road for the slick, clay-swallowed gravel of the footpath, newly scalped of its sodden, rot smelling dark brown felt of last year's...
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at dusk today
light mourning lavender sheets sky and sea far pink coast recalls sunset white triangle sail heading out gulls fly, wings bright as full moon's disc...
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October 2023
Shame : so hard to forget this soft word starting with a Sh! as of secrets, brushed under deep carpets and A in its middle, alphabet's beginning an...
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open your eyes!
bombing your moral high ground (won at such terrible cost) must always be a tricky manoevre to pull off - before you know where you are, history is...
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Congratulations! This is
Posted on Thu, 01 May 2025
Congratulations! This is Story of the Week!
Read full commentPosted in Semper Augustus
Read about Cedric's
Posted on Mon, 28 Apr 2025
Read about Cedric's increasing creepiness and Spencer's great idea in this fabulous new part of Jane Hyphen's very clever Parcel for You, which is Pick of the Day!
Image is from here :...
Read full commentPosted in Parcel for You - Part 59
What a cliff hanger! This is
Posted on Fri, 18 Apr 2025
What a cliff hanger! This is altogether being a WONDERFUL story. I am so happy you found ABCTales :0) I remember you saying when you just had, how you had not really got anywhere with publishing? You have SO MUCH more brilliant stuff now!
Read full commentPosted in Rupees Appease
If you would like cheering up
Posted on Tue, 11 Mar 2025
If you would like cheering up, try this wonderful true story from Ed Crane, it is Pick of the Day! Please do share if you can
Read full commentPosted in The Lonely Goose on The Durme
I love this one! Read 7 times
Posted on Thu, 27 Feb 2025
I love this one! Read 7 times at least and will again it is FABULOUS
Read full commentPosted in The Lighthouse Keeper of Ras Gombo
As we near Valentine's press
Posted on Mon, 10 Feb 2025
As we near Valentine's press of cellophaned roses, this wonderful poem celebrates a very different kind of relationship, and it is Pick of the Day. Please do share if you can
The photo is by Adrei Stroe, found here :
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Posted in The Garden, that was my domain
Thankyou so much for your
Posted on Thu, 02 Jan 2025
Thankyou so much for your good wishes :0) Last year was a bit rubbish, so hoping very much this year is more fun. And for you, too
Read full commentIf dogs were made like giraffes would be very bad news for squirrels!
DO NOT have words about BDSM...
Posted in Mad Dogs and Donkeys
You really have given it
Posted on Thu, 07 Nov 2024
You really have given it character! There seems something welcoming about the sea here, on the West. And it is amazing how different light is, the purple that gets into everything. I guess on the East, there's always the sense that cold weather...
Read full commentPosted in East Coast Scotland (Reflection)
You made me think how Lego
Posted on Thu, 10 Oct 2024
You made me think how Lego has become like gold, to be handed down, and added to over generations! And imagined that others in your family made things from the same bricks - it is almost like DNA :0)
Read full commentThe trouble with those expensive sets is...
Posted in Wee Plastic Hats Off to Ole Kirk Christiansen!
Glad you think all her songs
Posted on Thu, 26 Sep 2024
Glad you think all her songs sound the same, too :0) Brilliant IP response, Thankyou! Find it so interesting that she endorsed Harris, and Musk endorsed Trump, two very powerful opposites in social media? Maybe she really does make white noise,...
Read full commentPosted in On the Wind
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