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I have 180 stories published in 2 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 820159 times and 288 of my stories have been cherry picked.
2199 of my 6,372 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 2274 votes

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I am sorry I didn't see this

Posted on Tue, 04 Apr 2023

I am sorry I didn't see this companion to your one about cities. We are not so rural as those you describe in the second part of this poem, but even so, there is a big problem with "nothing to do, nowhere to go" particularly when it is raining....

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Posted in "15 minute walk to nature for all" aim

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I live where everything is

Posted on Tue, 04 Apr 2023

I live where everything is within walking. It is brilliant, but there is not very much choice? I would not like it so much if there was no internet delivery. And if there is a problem with availability of a basic fresh grocery item (eggs at the...

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Posted in The 15-minute city

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you have brilliantly evoked

Posted on Tue, 04 Apr 2023

you have brilliantly evoked the importance of trees! For birds and bees and us :0) I liked you having "flourishing" as I think of it as a conjuror sort of word and Spring flowering trees ARE magical. Well Done being POD :0)

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Posted in Relaxed Day In Summer

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Even living by the sea,

Posted on Tue, 28 Mar 2023

Even living by the sea, reading your lovely poem I got that tingle of holiday magic :0)
I loved the contrast of high stillness and adjacent movement in

"Gulls suspended in silence - mid-flight,

gliding high over spume-dashed...

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Posted in Brean Down

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dolls and cobwebs are such

Posted on Wed, 29 Mar 2023

dolls and cobwebs are such opposites, having them together immediately seems strange and dreamlike, you certainly evoke a dreamlike feeling with

"harvesting surreal visitations

for my soul, not knowing the

way to go; but...

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Posted in Dreaming

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This moving poem by Ralph

Posted on Thu, 30 Mar 2023

This moving poem by Ralph about the power of Music is Pick of the Day, please do share and retweet if you can

Picture is James Brown on ABC Television's Music Scene, and is from :...

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Posted in Shame

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Really enjoyed this, thankyou

Posted on Sat, 25 Mar 2023

Really enjoyed this, thankyou so much for sharing!

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Posted in The busy oven

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Thankyou for sharing another

Posted on Fri, 24 Mar 2023

Thankyou for sharing another of your wonderful walks! How lovely to see a rainbow, they always seem like a gift making the landscape even more special. And I didn't know the word sessile, so learned something too as well as feeling refreshed by...

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Posted in Above Clunton

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I loved the suggestion of

Posted on Tue, 21 Mar 2023

I loved the suggestion of bluebells in moonlight - had never thought of them this way
"half-moonlight, shades

with splendour held in"
is GORGEOUS

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Posted in Awakening Of Spring

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You have fitted in all your

Posted on Wed, 22 Mar 2023

You have fitted in all your facts seeming without effort, a skillful, fun lesson about a Natural wonder

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Posted in Pacific Golden Plover

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