Di_Hard

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April shower

By Di_Hard on Thu, 07 Apr 2022

Sun is shattered by dark tree branches, splinters glint scattered on twig tips, diamond- dusting downy oval honescuckle leaves' warm green-blue,...

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Win

By Di_Hard on Thu, 24 Mar 2022

this meeting of trees and rushes glows, peaceful as a holy place warbler songs shimmer warm blue air where speckled wood butterflies dance from spine...

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Guernica, Stalingrad, Grozny, Aleppo, Mariupol...

By Di_Hard on Tue, 22 Mar 2022

Reporters list atrocities suggesting which might qualify as war crimes, while Western leaders' words slide over blood, too afraid of falling in to...

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Listening to the News 2/3/22

By Di_Hard on Wed, 02 Mar 2022

Does sound of our clapping drown out the bombs exploding in your homes? Our politicians stand shoulder to shoulder with ambassadors come to beg for...

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BRILLIANT!!!

Posted on Wed, 20 Feb 2019

BRILLIANT!!! This is absolute magic :0)

love "pale posy bunches" "coin wings" Wow! "seed-bulge" perfect . Also "far beyond their leafing"

well, all of it, really!

Insert, i wasn't sure what the trees across the road...

Posted in The fruit of the elm

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Very interesting to read his

Posted on Fri, 02 Feb 2018

Very interesting to read his story. I only really knew of him from hearing an interview about how by the time they let working class people into Oxford it was so dummed down there was no point going there, and that the elites never accepted him...

Posted in Les Rowse, Philippe and I

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You are quite right Tom, it's

Posted on Sun, 17 Sep 2017

You are quite right Tom, it's just a collection of nature scenes. It's just that I realised that someone from centuries ago could have seen them, too. And while I think of the wood as a beautiful place to go and see the sun and hear the birds....

Posted in time travelling

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I am glad Tom got out without

Posted on Sat, 24 Jan 2026

I am glad Tom got out without really knowing what had happened. Russel's fear must have made it worse, very scary for both. Brilliant writing!

Posted in Tom All Alone (9) (ii)

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I LOVE all your descriptions!

Posted on Sat, 24 Jan 2026

I LOVE all your descriptions!
"And the music - that magical, twirling, barrel organ music Tom only ever heard at the fair. For the first time they could smell the warm, sugary whiff of it in their nostrils - the toffee and popcorn and candy...

Posted in Tom All Alone (9) (i)

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I love all the colours! You

Posted on Sun, 25 Jan 2026

I love all the colours! You have communicated so well the magic of Dawn

Posted in "Crimson Morning"

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Perfect, Rhiannon, all the

Posted on Thu, 22 Jan 2026

Perfect, Rhiannon, all the word sounds and that way you have of making the last line still and comforting somehow

Posted in Dark and dreary …

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One bright side is that, if

Posted on Wed, 21 Jan 2026

One bright side is that, if you had got super successful ages ago, all of us on ABCTales now might not have known about your writing, and got to tell you how much we love it? Also, your life might not have been so rich, all the people you have...