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hard and fast and shiny

By Di_Hard on Mon, 07 Jan 2019

we make our faces look plastic like dolls we had as children, un aging if we can afford to pay in plastic. Package fruit so it won't go black as air...

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lost in space

By Di_Hard on Sat, 05 Jan 2019

in a bowl of hills beside the sea air is ice cream red orange green lights tutti frutti the ferry's fog horn a spoon full of stillness

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Spring a Butterfly

By Di_Hard on Sun, 23 Dec 2018

Dusty cocoon of box tight packed through warmer days deep green wire limbed larvi unbends into branches of frizzy plastic tree tall, when you both...

not ready to fly yet

By Di_Hard on Thu, 08 Nov 2018

cat on the bed looks up as I go in he lies on the floor curled as if fallen like a leaf still in school uniform the chrysalis of his face asleep next...

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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!

Posted in Baby Makes Three ( Part Three )

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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...

Posted in Baby Makes Three ( Part Three )

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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...

Posted in TOO LATE FOR GOODBYES

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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...

Posted in What a lunch-spot!

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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!

Posted in All's Well That Ends Well

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Two people hurting, and not

Posted on Wed, 01 Oct 2025

Two people hurting, and not talking and one trying to survive by changing, and the other by pretending as hard as he can that nothing has changed. What will happen when he wakes up the next morning? So sensitively written!

Posted in Low

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I like very much the idea of

Posted on Thu, 25 Sep 2025

I like very much the idea of days being like footprints. Also, "Flowery race is on, who will / Survive?" is brilliant. You are so good at finding a unique and intimate way of looking at things

Posted in Footprints Of The Season

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Such interesting, practical

Posted on Thu, 25 Sep 2025

Such interesting, practical questions you raise, whether one is distracted by by an uncomfy seat, or kept awake, and if these were considerations of the carpenters, or it might have been the price of wood, or space for the seating! And as Jenny...

Posted in On ode to a pew

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How frightening! I hope you

Posted on Thu, 25 Sep 2025

How frightening! I hope you have stopped thinking of it so much, now, I would be shaky like you! And I would be miffed if people downstairs thought I could cause the whole house to shake just be falling over!!! I loved how you put it though, as...

Posted in Scary Event

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Oh! I hope she DOES find him

Posted on Sun, 28 Sep 2025

Oh! I hope she DOES find him :0) I don't know how she will know, without dna tests, but bet you will think up the perfect clue! This is a fabulous change of pace, and a great way to tell the story of Gwladys, whose character just gets better and...