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It's a great photo, strong
Posted on Tue, 06 Feb 2018
It's a great photo, strong features and full of humour, intelligent, who knows their own mind and won't settle for something that makes them unhappy. Then I read the writing and the photo fits exactly
Richard, thankyou for reading and commenting. I am so sorry to hear about your cat. It is the most terrible thing to lose a close friend, whether animal or human. 19 is a great age, you must have loved her so much and looked after her so well. I...
Very interesting idea. "It is almost as if once physical baggage has come over the threshold of the hotel that complex items of personal emotional baggage that add dimension to our identities have been left somewhere in the street outside or even...
I've been vegan 25 years now, I think. It's getting easier, believe me. And people like you who can articulate your ethics clearly without apportioning blame are going to help the cause. Maybe one day people will come round to...
The way you describe the walk with Bristol is the best thing I've read about dogs ever. Also enjoyed how Grandad washed up the special bowl with his elbow
the way you have made the first part like small steps, words broken by commas, and end with the release of a flowing sentence is wonderful. I love the last two lines
Maybe the dogs are interested in the "Claws of cats of unsound mind" . Or maybe wondering at the waste of so many potentional dog newspaper stands (trees much better than lamp posts as more absorbant) The Christmas tree frenzy does seem to...
I know it is horrid and stressful when you have to keep adding it up as you go, and putting stuff back, but so long as you have enough money food shopping is such fun? Go vegan, then you won't feel guilty about meat. Shopping in the evening,...
So beautiful. The short first lines make me think of how the air seems thicker/heavier when it's cold, so that your breath floats on it. And "break" at the end of the fourth line immediately makes me hear the crunch, as if the line were the snow...
It's a great photo, strong
Posted on Tue, 06 Feb 2018
It's a great photo, strong features and full of humour, intelligent, who knows their own mind and won't settle for something that makes them unhappy. Then I read the writing and the photo fits exactly
Read full commentPosted in Les Rowse, Philippe and I Part 2
This makes me feel sad. It's
Posted on Tue, 06 Feb 2018
This makes me feel sad. It's a brilliant idea for a poem though, to take something we have all seen and concentrate on it, give it meaning
Read full commentPosted in A Cold Memory
Richard, thankyou for reading
Posted on Sat, 13 Jan 2018
Richard, thankyou for reading and commenting. I am so sorry to hear about your cat. It is the most terrible thing to lose a close friend, whether animal or human. 19 is a great age, you must have loved her so much and looked after her so well. I...
Read full commentPosted in finding peace
Very interesting idea. "It is
Posted on Fri, 02 Feb 2018
Very interesting idea. "It is almost as if once physical baggage has come over the threshold of the hotel that complex items of personal emotional baggage that add dimension to our identities have been left somewhere in the street outside or even...
Read full commentPosted in Checking In
Well Done!
Posted on Sun, 21 Jan 2018
Well Done!
I've been vegan 25 years now, I think. It's getting easier, believe me. And people like you who can articulate your ethics clearly without apportioning blame are going to help the cause. Maybe one day people will come round to...
Read full commentPosted in .14 why am I 'vegan'?
The way you describe the walk
Posted on Sat, 20 Jan 2018
The way you describe the walk with Bristol is the best thing I've read about dogs ever. Also enjoyed how Grandad washed up the special bowl with his elbow
Read full commentPosted in Jack Mutant - Which Way is Down? (part ten)
the way you have made the
Posted on Thu, 11 Jan 2018
the way you have made the first part like small steps, words broken by commas, and end with the release of a flowing sentence is wonderful. I love the last two lines
Read full commentPosted in Morning mist lifts
Maybe the dogs are interested
Posted on Wed, 10 Jan 2018
Maybe the dogs are interested in the "Claws of cats of unsound mind" . Or maybe wondering at the waste of so many potentional dog newspaper stands (trees much better than lamp posts as more absorbant) The Christmas tree frenzy does seem to...
Read full commentPosted in Where do Christmas Trees go to Die?
I know it is horrid and
Posted on Sun, 07 Jan 2018
I know it is horrid and stressful when you have to keep adding it up as you go, and putting stuff back, but so long as you have enough money food shopping is such fun? Go vegan, then you won't feel guilty about meat. Shopping in the evening,...
Read full commentPosted in Groceries
So beautiful. The short first
Posted on Tue, 27 Jun 2017
So beautiful. The short first lines make me think of how the air seems thicker/heavier when it's cold, so that your breath floats on it. And "break" at the end of the fourth line immediately makes me hear the crunch, as if the line were the snow...
Read full commentPosted in “The Hush of the Snow”
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