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Hope you are ok, you are in
Posted on Fri, 18 Feb 2022
Hope you are ok, you are in the worst bit, aren't you? Was bad enough here :0) It does feel a bit like being in the clutch of a bird of prey!
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...
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...
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
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
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 "...
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?
Hope you are ok, you are in
Posted on Fri, 18 Feb 2022
Hope you are ok, you are in the worst bit, aren't you? Was bad enough here :0) It does feel a bit like being in the clutch of a bird of prey!
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this seems bright as one of
Posted on Mon, 14 Feb 2022
this seems bright as one of those beautiful glass pictures from Itally. I particularly liked the white peacock feathers and tulips
Read full commentPosted in Looking Down and Up
Was very interested to read
Posted on Wed, 16 Feb 2022
Was very interested to read your account of the cat climber as we nearly bought one at Christmas.
When I was looking to buy a mattress a little while ago, a lady walked in and asked if the shop had any sofas, and the man showing me...
Read full commentPosted in Two Stores.
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...
Read full commentPosted in Saint Valentine
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...
Read full commentPosted in Wonderful Ludlow View
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
Read full commentPosted in Hares in a Field
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
Read full commentPosted in The Tale of the Six Swans
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?
Read full commentPosted in The Tale of the Six Swans
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 "...
Read full commentPosted in February Shropshire Woods
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...
Read full commentPosted in The Tale of the Six Swans
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