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You've conveyed all your feelings brilliantly, specially how jobs are seen as defining people, so not having one makes a person a blob. And yet not having a specific shape/a slot to fit into, makes you able to go anywhere, the possibility of...
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...
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....
I do remember about your aweful storm, and your car and roof being damaged. But not about the storks and other birds, that's so sad, you must have felt like crying. And the car salesman, he must have felt his life was ruined, and been so scared...
Your diaries whizz past, to read. You seem to be having health worries at both ends! I hope you are all better, now. Your vet trip with Manoushka has reminded me that Tina was meant to be going in today. Every day since I made the appointment she...
what a great metaphor for
Posted on Wed, 19 Jun 2019
what a great metaphor for aging
We walked the plateau
Flat and scattered green
But now in this desert scape
Dragging our bags behind.
Pink is a halfway colour, isn't it? Unthreatening, which is why it's so scary...
Read full commentPosted in My Favourite Colour's Changed
You've conveyed all your
Posted on Tue, 12 Mar 2019
You've conveyed all your feelings brilliantly, specially how jobs are seen as defining people, so not having one makes a person a blob. And yet not having a specific shape/a slot to fit into, makes you able to go anywhere, the possibility of...
Read full commentPosted in Last Week I Lost My Job (Rimus Dissolutas)
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...
Read full commentPosted in The fruit of the elm
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...
Read full commentPosted in Les Rowse, Philippe and I
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....
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I did hope the editor to whom
Posted on Sun, 13 Sep 2026
I did hope the editor to whom you refer reads the previous part of this story :0)
Read full commentPosted in Amanderella and the Mystery of Wittering Crags. Chapter 4.
I am sorry about Ludo, too.
Posted on Wed, 09 Sep 2026
I am sorry about Ludo, too. Beautiful Cat. You gave him the best place to be, always.
I hope your nose is much better. And your weather has cooled down so you can go gardening again.
I liked all your descriptions of the people you...
Read full commentPosted in La Vie En Nose
I do remember about your
Posted on Mon, 07 Sep 2026
I do remember about your aweful storm, and your car and roof being damaged. But not about the storks and other birds, that's so sad, you must have felt like crying. And the car salesman, he must have felt his life was ruined, and been so scared...
Read full commentPosted in Oh Ambassador You Are Really Scaring Us
Your diaries whizz past, to
Posted on Mon, 07 Sep 2026
Your diaries whizz past, to read. You seem to be having health worries at both ends! I hope you are all better, now. Your vet trip with Manoushka has reminded me that Tina was meant to be going in today. Every day since I made the appointment she...
Read full commentPosted in Oh Ambassador You Are Really Scaring Us
I guess there's a worry of
Posted on Sat, 05 Sep 2026
I guess there's a worry of the ink fading the more it is exposed to light? Thank you for offering to post updates :0)
Read full commentPosted in A delightful but momentous task
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