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highland games 2018 (again)
sound wells up from the town molten silver bright unpools between old buildings, gold in afternoon sun, warm. Home. Thrill swells - All have come...
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W_W
Some times there is a flicker in the passing pages of years, a golden sparkle and bright colour reaches out from the black and white makes a reader...
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a break from hoovering
wriggle bummed bees busy browsing discourse on roses, pore over cool pale petal pages of pollen gold-illumined manuscripts gathering anthologies of...
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In your shoes
The bag's bright pink, prawn cocktail in clear script. We don't have prawns now the sea is plastic soup. You wear shoes so your feet don't touch the...
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renewable 2 (second go at this)
behind a moss furred wall woods slope down and bluebells shimmer peacock hued through bright green shade cool incense filled and in the field airy...
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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...
Read full commentPosted in TOO LATE FOR GOODBYES
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
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!
Read full commentPosted in Low
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
Read full commentPosted in Footprints Of The Season
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...
Read full commentPosted in On ode to a pew
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...
Read full commentPosted in Scary Event
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...
Read full commentPosted in Sharing (Episode 27 - The Further Chronicles of a Young Lady (and her Maid))
Itane Vero's fabulous
Posted on Sat, 27 Sep 2025
Itane Vero's fabulous response to this week's IP is Pick of the Day! Please do share if you can
Read full commentPosted in From her to eternity
I guess it's about senses,
Posted on Fri, 26 Sep 2025
I guess it's about senses, isn't it? No matter how complex AI becomes it will never have those, to the same degree as we can. When CGI came out I wondered if it might replace forests etc but you can ALWAYS tell real trees, real animals. If ever...
Read full commentPosted in RIP Real World
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