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I have 180 stories published in 2 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 823880 times and 288 of my stories have been cherry picked.
2201 of my 6,377 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 2276 votes

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Cherry

E is for Elf and Evergreens

unseen hands making true lucky children's wishes their coats are never new but, in Winter, riches
Cherry

D is for Dove (Decoration and Real)

blind symbol of peace, cut from wordless paper, swings hunger flown further out shy beauty on grey wings
Cherry

C is for Cracker and Chestnut

two hands snap! out old joke cheap toy, soon lost and crown velvet lips speak through spikes of secrets swelling brown
Cherry

B is for Bauble and Rowan Berries

sparkling, empty, always perfect this man-made fruit, unlike seedful berries gloriously unput
Cherry

A is for Angel and Ash Tree

watching with unpacked calm pale face in cornered dark as ash trees reach, each arm in sleek, moonsliver bark

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2201 of my comments have received 2276 Great Feedback votes

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That's a fab photo! Your Nan

Posted on Thu, 20 Nov 2025

That's a fab photo! Your Nan looks like she had a sharp sense of humour :0) And so STRONG! Not her bulging biceps just, but her will and character. I didn't know what Anaglypta was, and like the idea of wallpaper under watery siege :0) The whole...

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Posted in Dolly Blue Monday

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Thank You for sharing your

Posted on Tue, 18 Nov 2025

Thank You for sharing your wonderful land! I love there being "full views nearly all the way around/of Shropshire soft hills –.Beautiful!"

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Posted in Above Clunbury

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Incredibly great poem. Well

Posted on Mon, 17 Nov 2025

Incredibly great poem. Well Done

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Posted in The World is Closed

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I am so sorry about Snezhinka

Posted on Mon, 17 Nov 2025

I am so sorry about Snezhinka. I hope she is not sore. Very good that the tumour is shrinking, and much sympathy to you about medicine. That street art is BRILLIANT :0) We have lots of ACAB and large willies which look a bit like triskelion,...

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Posted in At Home with the Rhizomes

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OOOOh, could he be the baby

Posted on Tue, 11 Nov 2025

OOOOh, could he be the baby she had to give up? Great contrasts in this part, between weak Aefelthrith and strong Dolly, and frail "Arry's Mum and super strong Gwladys

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Posted in Caring (Episode 32 - The Further Chronicles of a Young Lady (and her Maid)

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Have heard of someone

Posted on Tue, 11 Nov 2025

Have heard of someone becoming "a shadow of their former self" but not the idea of there being a shadow of possible future self. I found this sentence most interesting : "A mirror showing him a version of himself he no longer knew how to reach...

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Posted in The Second Shadow

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Makis brings a glimpse of

Posted on Tue, 11 Nov 2025

Makis brings a glimpse of peace in our troublous times, in this Pick of the Day. Please do share if you enjoy it too

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Posted in Time Lords

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Thankyou for your wonderful

Posted on Tue, 11 Nov 2025

Thankyou for your wonderful IP response, so interesting how your experience with the steam train shaped the direction of your life's journey

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Posted in No Going Back

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Thankyou for this, Rhiannon.

Posted on Tue, 11 Nov 2025

Thankyou for this, Rhiannon. I love the kindness, gentleness you evoke, both in the elderly man whose autobiography your husband printed, but also the landscape in which he lived. And that the family friendship came because of your husband giving...

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Posted in The shock of abrupt re-entry into civilization …

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I LOVE "looming

Posted on Tue, 11 Nov 2025

I LOVE "looming

Unhurried in Stillness and settling"
such a feeling of immensity in stone and time

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Posted in Old Man Of Storr

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