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something in the air
Flies weave a buzzing basket of still warm light. Hairline rainbow cracks in space above paths, like mistakes leave unseen tethers of regret, sticky...
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remembering dandelions (again)
Prisoned between tarmac bars of road and footpath herbicide subdued Earth waits sure of the last laugh when only the toughest are still around to see...
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breezy
this breeze, seeming slight might be calmness dying, a storm’s birth it could have come from Samarkand or been in Neanderthal lungs we all breathe...
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10th july grasshopper
mossy rocks tumbled from windbreak wall hold back reed tines' reaching on and on to moor's distance misty bright of gorse here, in warm air, low...
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wet 6th july
clouds secrete clear, cold threads, falling, coccoon round tree limbs shade flesh, lumens an airy tingle of tall grass, till rainbow orbs pool bodies...
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Love the Ferrero Roche
Posted on Mon, 05 Jan 2026
Love the Ferrero Roche/Hazelnut allergy :0)
Is it Totem Carol wants to give to Harry's Mum?
I like this part even more than the first, really hope there are LOTS MORE :0)
This thing with the salmon did actually happen at my...
Read full commentPosted in The Cat Krampus Campus (And Moment who couldn't resist not doing nothing) Part 2
That's a fantastic title :0)
Posted on Wed, 24 Dec 2025
That's a fantastic title :0) I am glad they missed out on the trouble this one time! Happy New Year, with lots of writing :0)
Read full commentPosted in Christmas Mrs.
Ok. Second guess, shoe
Posted on Mon, 15 Dec 2025
Ok. Second guess, shoe smuggler just starting out thought he was getting a bargain, but was actually only half pairs. So embarrassed he buried them all in the garden?
Read full commentPosted in A Hare's Breath 4 - The Horror
The undercurrent of suspicion
Posted on Mon, 15 Dec 2025
The undercurrent of suspicion for your fellows seeded in history, but all sides still united in fear of the faeries, that belief in luck and bad luck which is older than religion. All sides relishing the bright words and skill of pulling a laugh...
Read full commentPosted in A Hare's Breath 4 - The Horror
The hare episode is brutal.
Posted on Mon, 15 Dec 2025
The hare episode is brutal. Bobby is a brilliant best friend, his solidarity, about the hare's blood dripping onto your bike. Your Mum is so strong! I think the laughing must have got her through, I love the hilarity that flickers all through...
Read full commentPosted in A Hare's Breath 4 - The Horror
This lovely :0) Echoing what
Posted on Sun, 14 Dec 2025
This lovely :0) Echoing what Insert says. Best wishes for you and all your family XXX
Read full commentPosted in "Christmas with a Child's View" (....Santa Claus, Pere Noel, Father Christmas, Sinterklaas, Saint Nicholas, Kris Kringle....)
Beautiful writing. You know
Posted on Fri, 12 Dec 2025
Beautiful writing. You know how to convey to the reader completely your experiences, rich, vivid, human. I loved "The table felt like an organism, warm and loud and insistent, wrapping itself around all of us."
Read full commentAlso liked very much "ladled...
Posted in The Kitchen Door
there are different forms of
Posted on Thu, 11 Dec 2025
there are different forms of attack though? Your best admonitory poems are light as rapier thrusts, not wishy washy, but swishy swashy :0) You are literary Errol Flynn
Read full commentPosted in The Vexation of Nikolai
Hadn't realised this was to
Posted on Thu, 11 Dec 2025
Hadn't realised this was to be a whole SERIES!!! BRILLIANT NEWS :0) Your description of grown up telly is perfect :0) "These programmes are just a load of old men in their bathers pretending to fight with each other in a square thing called a...
Read full commentPosted in A Hare's Breath 2 - The Bicycle
This whole piece is BRILLIANT
Posted on Tue, 09 Dec 2025
This whole piece is BRILLIANT :0) I LOVE your family banter :0)
Just 2 favourite bits
"I wanted to know how he knew which rock samples were boring and which ones were interesting but he had already told me I was asking too many...
Read full commentPosted in A Hare's Breath 1 - The Van
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