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preserving time
When this pan's hot, usually it's dull- full of potatoes or lentils. Tonight, blackberry juice simmers fathomless and darkest purple as the pupil of...
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flotsam and jetsam
On the beach, among litter a herring gull fledgeling, dead beside a Happy Birthday balloon background : Soothed in vast freedom and insouciance of...
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jormungandr
Some things will never change. At Summer's height bright as a plastic butterfly, the Fair unpacks on the Prom.
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suddenly
Grey cloud-palm presses down crushed air trees still as puppets hanging from their strings waiting a hiss across fields...... becomes patter on...
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fallow
A sheet of tall stemmed notes, soft rushes, grow yellow-ochre, golden-green, and with brown flower rests rustling, make fresh glissando tides of...
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As others say, this is
Posted on Sun, 08 Nov 2015
As others say, this is AMAZING WRITING, Jenny. I am so glad you had a good health visitor, so there was one person who understood and knew how to help. Thank goodness she was there! I believe this would help others, to read. It is so kind of you...
Read full commentPosted in That's Life ( Pt 2 )
As others have said, your
Posted on Sat, 07 Nov 2015
As others have said, your bravery shines through. I was never brave enough to try going on my own, and having read the whole of your account of this time, that was the right choice for my son and me, whatever anybody said, I could not have coped...
Read full commentPosted in That's Life ( Pt 1 )
Wow! What a writer you are :0
Posted on Sun, 13 Dec 2015
Wow! What a writer you are :0) And what a resilient person! This is so, so good. And the perfect ending, not what I had expected, but perfect :0) To have gone from the frightened young Mum at the beginning, to this person who could turn down an...
Read full commentPosted in That's Life The Conclusion
The letters hiding in the
Posted on Sat, 04 Oct 2025
The letters hiding in the words like a stripey tiger?
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Agree with Jenny, absolutely
Posted on Fri, 03 Oct 2025
Agree with Jenny, absolutely brilliant poem, Rhiannon, Thank You for posting
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sorry, have not found That's
Posted on Sun, 16 Jun 2013
sorry, have not found That's Life, yet. But I am glad I did not find it at once, or I would not have found these Diary entries :0) Could really have done with reading them, 20 years ago!
Read full commentPosted in Baby Makes Three ( Part Three )
Jaundice! Yes, my son had
Posted on Sun, 16 Jun 2013
Jaundice! Yes, my son had that. But POOR YOU, having flu as well as all this!!! I can't imagine have a worse experience, you must have been exhausted before all this even started! I AM SO GLAD they worked out about your son's soft palate, that...
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Jenny, I found this while
Posted on Sun, 20 Feb 2011
Jenny, I found this while looking for your That's Life piece. It must have been so hard to write! Often I have heard people say "don't be defined by the bad things that have happened to you". Having read your amazingly beautiful and uplifting...
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I like very much your
Posted on Thu, 02 Oct 2025
I like very much your description of all the abundance! this whole chunk is fabulous, "crunching through a carpet of beech mast,
and walking over a pattern of sycamore aeroplanes."
There are lots of berries here, too. On the radio...
Read full commentPosted in What a lunch-spot!
Jenny! I had no idea you have
Posted on Thu, 02 Oct 2025
Jenny! I had no idea you have been through so much hardship! What a tough start to being a Mum, when we are so tired and vulnerable, with a young life to protect. Well Done brilliant you persevering to make things better!
Read full commentPosted in All's Well That Ends Well
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