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I have 179 stories published in 2 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 616474 times and 283 of my stories have been cherry picked.
1956 of my 5,931 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 2015 votes

1956 of my comments have received 2015 Great Feedback votes

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Weird how his letter covered

Posted on Tue, 15 Feb 2022

Weird how his letter covered in blood was meant to have started the thing with teddy bears and chocolate. And weird how the greatest gift between states was bits of dead people. Giant Pandas much better. Would not have known anything about him...

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Posted in Saint Valentine

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I liked "nowadays town" very

Posted on Wed, 16 Feb 2022

I liked "nowadays town" very much, and the contrast of "firmly rooted" castle, with the masts and observatory both looking to the sky. Agree with Jenny, feel wonderfully transported by both your poem and brilliant photo. Is pouring with rain and...

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Posted in Wonderful Ludlow View

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Of course! Had never thought

Posted on Tue, 15 Feb 2022

Of course! Had never thought of clouds being like paeony petals! You are so clever :0) And then cloud blossom, too. I really like the contrast of flowering sky and rooted earth, with hares between, washing in the dew

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Posted in Hares in a Field

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I don't know about asters,

Posted on Fri, 11 Feb 2022

I don't know about asters, but nettles really were made into cloth. Have a vague memory reading the German army at one time had uniforms made out of them? Maybe asters are used in warmer climates if they have stringy stalks too

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Posted in The Tale of the Six Swans

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Oh no! Don't change it? I

Posted on Fri, 11 Feb 2022

Oh no! Don't change it? I thought it was a red aster of blood the needle made by pricking ? and the petals seeping into the shirt?

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Posted in The Tale of the Six Swans

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What a lot of snowdrops!!!

Posted on Fri, 11 Feb 2022

What a lot of snowdrops!!!

Every year you write a beautiful snowdrop poem, and always say something fresh. In this one I notice particularly your contrast with decay (crumbling, tangled) emptiness (bare, sere) and then "splashes"and "...

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Posted in February Shropshire Woods

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That always bothered me, too.

Posted on Fri, 11 Feb 2022

That always bothered me, too. Weaving nettles. And for so many shirts. Why is it always females whose way to be brave is to endure while males go off and fight monsters? Instead of monstrous other females?

I like Walter Crane too...

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Posted in The Tale of the Six Swans

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Hi Tom, it is very good of

Posted on Sun, 06 Feb 2022

Hi Tom, it is very good of you to come back and I too would like to apologise as I thought I had immediately deleted my comment - I should not have taken such umbrage! Sometimes I find it hard to know how things are meant if there is no voice or...

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Posted in February Rainbow

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Posted on Sun, 06 Feb 2022

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Posted in February Rainbow

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