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pondering

By Di_Hard on Fri, 05 Apr 2019

jelly ellipsis or small eyeballs with tiny pupils, or thought bubbles, each containing a full stop No! A full beginning a drip of ink After some...

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First Walk Of April

By Di_Hard on Thu, 04 Apr 2019

Step on a moon stone to cross the stream - Van Gogh’s Starry Night - willow flowers pollen halo’d in swirling water.dark. Sun-coin's cloud-pursed. In...

herring gull gallantry

By Di_Hard on Thu, 28 Mar 2019

If you wait till half past six there's cheap bread at the Co op or donuts for 16p. So now, after chores are done I put on my coat (it's still cold...

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not just a citrus

By Di_Hard on Wed, 27 Mar 2019

Sunny smelling mangoes and carrots for a snowman's nose rough and griity builders' sand or some ducks from knees to toes. Pumpkins carved on...

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Really enjoyed this holiday

Posted on Mon, 10 Nov 2025

Really enjoyed this holiday diary, and your wonderful photos, too. Best of all is your spirits battling against the liquids of sideways rain, dampness in the musty rustic cottage, and tea trickling from leaky teapot - helped by the liquids of...

Posted in Turlough Ó Carolan's Farewell to Turlough Ó Maoláin

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I am glad you let him in :0)

Posted on Sun, 09 Nov 2025

I am glad you let him in :0) Wondering if perhaps, his people might have moved recently, and being in new territory, added to the fear of the noise, might have made him run too far to find his way back? Do you have a local facebook page you could...

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Sampling the variety of

Posted on Thu, 30 Oct 2025

Sampling the variety of sideways rain here, today, good to settle down (damply) and compare :0) I loved the last sentence in your Dally, and how you two always find something fun to do. That cross is amazing. The Reformation must have been...

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I wonder if the glory of the

Posted on Tue, 21 Oct 2025

I wonder if the glory of the sky was any comfort, in the Famine. How easy it might be, to believe in God, seeing such beauty, if not starving to death because of fellow human beings' decisions across the sea in London. Perhaps beautiful skies in...