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I have 180 stories published in 2 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 810188 times and 288 of my stories have been cherry picked.
2201 of my 6,373 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 2276 votes

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Cherry

"Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the Earth" Albert Schweitzer

we breathed each other's breath. It was enough once you sheltered within me. We were one before fences. I grew to know burning, soon you chose to...
Gold cherry

February Rainbow

snow cloud's blue, bomb ominous, blooms through beech trees' fragile dark raised bars that seek to cage west's brutal storms rampaging from unbroken...
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Cherry

BBBB

In rows, shining stems and identical, (almost) spikey tips, grey. Where could each take me? Their names gave nothing away : HB, 2B, etc pointless as...
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Cherry

Z is for Zing

home's in coming, going and holding time between in mud's dark-under, Spring rememberings begin image is by Boris Drenec off Flickr https://www...

Y is for Yule log and Yew

wood many suns' knowing, felled, burns through year's fear wall bird sown life outgrowing religions' rise and fall ~ this photo is byJonny Andrews...

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2201 of my comments have received 2276 Great Feedback votes

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Thank You for your beautiful,

Posted on Thu, 08 Jan 2026

Thank You for your beautiful, very personal IP response Jenny. I don't know anything about Laycock, but it sounds like a good place to hold such a precious memory of your Mum

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Posted in Gone But Not Forgotten

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Thank You for this wise

Posted on Fri, 09 Jan 2026

Thank You for this wise IP response Rhiannon. That's a clever idea of hatred being cold, prejudice frozen in, and hearts need to become warm, to gain the fluidity of tolerance

is there a typo here?

"in amger will just escalate"

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Posted in Oh, for Stirrings and Softenings!

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This perfect conclusion to

Posted on Wed, 07 Jan 2026

This perfect conclusion to Beanzie's intense, immersive collection of poems about Timmy, is Pick of the Day! Please do share if you can

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Posted in My Dinosaur Era Chapter 53 [The Actual Full Epilogue]

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i love your conversations

Posted on Wed, 07 Jan 2026

i love your conversations with people like your dentist and vet :0) I imagine you going about everywhere making them laugh and they making you laugh, and you writing it all down to make us laugh :0)
"I suggested to Dr Gunchev that, because...

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Posted in How to Make Money with a Broken Spirograph

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Love the Ferrero Roche

Posted on Mon, 05 Jan 2026

Love the Ferrero Roche/Hazelnut allergy :0)

Is it Totem Carol wants to give to Harry's Mum?

I like this part even more than the first, really hope there are LOTS MORE :0)

This thing with the salmon did actually happen at my...

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Posted in The Cat Krampus Campus (And Moment who couldn't resist not doing nothing) Part 2

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Loved this story :0)

Posted on Fri, 02 Jan 2026

Loved this story :0)

ps should it be clambered here ? "With that he turned away and clamored up the chimney"

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Posted in The Cat Krampus Campus (and Moment who couldn't resist not doing nothing)

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That's a fantastic title :0)

Posted on Wed, 24 Dec 2025

That's a fantastic title :0) I am glad they missed out on the trouble this one time! Happy New Year, with lots of writing :0)

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Posted in Christmas Mrs.

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That's a clever idea! This is

Posted on Wed, 24 Dec 2025

That's a clever idea! This is so like a film :0) Can imagine every scene! Thank You for posting

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Posted in "Art of Trouble" 8

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I love the rhythm at the

Posted on Fri, 26 Dec 2025

I love the rhythm at the start, as if like the Earth contained by cold the only changes are length of light. And then as the days grow longer, the order of bare soil is broken, Life and all its green wildness bursts out, and then at the end the...

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Posted in Circling

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Huge contrast you convey! The

Posted on Mon, 22 Dec 2025

Huge contrast you convey! The majestic river, growing ever bigger with rain from the West joining from the fields, and the busy bright human town, all thoughts focussing on Christmas.

I hope you and all your wonderful family have a very...

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Posted in Pondering above the Wye

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