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Walking home from shopping 8/3/18
You know how, if you find a piece of quartz on the beach and hold it up to the light you can see white, cream and amber fractured bright as the...
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predator (just re uploaded)
snow lies outside waiting like a cat thick fluffy fur white gleaming flat bumper deep cars lurk stuck fast as burrs in streets shaken by sky ripping...
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Lethe
Forgetting things is so scary like standing on a bank a river is eating away at. My Dad died of dementia unable to talk. My son hates that I want to...
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It's all about bread
It is important to be able to look down on your enemy. Though they are not enemies rather bread and butter. That sort of spongy white pap I wouldn't...
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emperor's new clothes
Invisible fresh air is cut and sewn when whistles, chirps and warbles sweetly shear off from sky's roll of space, as silk ribon freed, catches light...
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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...
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!
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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
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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...
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...
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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...
Read full commentPosted in Sharing (Episode 27 - The Further Chronicles of a Young Lady (and her Maid))
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