Ed Crane
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I have 291 stories published in
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My stories have been read 698294 times
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225 of my 2,025 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 234 votes
My stories
The Curse of the Thing in the Jungle
My own drawing of "The Thing" :)
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Nunca Te Rindas
The flowers that "never gave up" on our terrace in Lanzarote 2008
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Waiting for the Flyers, Part16: Surprises for Sally
A door at the side of the lounge opened and a young girl entered carrying a tray containing a brightly coloured teapot with matching cups and milk...
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Waiting for the Flyers. Part15: visiting Jess's domain.
Passing the pillars we found ourselves under overhanging branches of ancient lime trees. A row of them on each side of the drive stretched ahead...
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Waiting for the Flyers Pt14 The Drive
It was a pleasant surprise to see how well our folks had prepared the road. It was smooth and hard, strengthened by gravel in places ready for winter...
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Sorry to butt in Jack (I have been trying to keep up)
Posted on Sat, 23 Feb 2019
My Daughter was born in 1980 in the 'soft south' (Camberley Surrey) and I don't recall my wife having an ultrasound. When she went in labour all they had was sort of microphone thing they put on her tummy which amplified the baby's heart beat,...
Read full commentPosted in Angel 35 (scan)
Wow, Thanks very much Luigi
Posted on Thu, 14 Feb 2019
That is such anice thing to say. I really appreciated that. Especially coming from someone who loves writing poetry as much as you do.
Read full commentPosted in Blowing Up the Street (IP)
Very true Luigi, here's some more ...
Posted on Fri, 08 Feb 2019
wash a root well and grind into slithers
add them to water and boil it up
then filter the liquid into a cup
drink it down, its good for your liver!
Read full commentPosted in Dandelions
Never read Ginsberg, except excerpts from poems
Posted on Sun, 03 Feb 2019
I guess they didn't make an impression. However, I do think I should go back and visit him and Woolf and a few others if I'm going to have any chance of understanding SOC. It's been a long time since I read On the Road and now I can't find my...
Read full commentPosted in Random Thoughts of a Bored Old Goat
Great stuff it's about time we had poems about this problem
Posted on Fri, 04 May 2018
I'm amazed at the lack of response to this important topic.
What seems to be forgotten is the fact that palm oil is not just hazardous for Orangs (the greatest gift we have from Asia) but it's danderous for us also.
A cheap form of...
Read full commentPosted in Palm oil or Orangutans?
Life is a self-perpetuating bio-chemical reaction
Posted on Sun, 01 Apr 2018
We are more complex than and ant (but not by much). Life has to be self-centred by its very nature, therefore we must be too, whether we like it or not.
I enjoyed this piece.
Read full commentPosted in Self-centered?
I kind of like this
Posted on Sat, 24 Feb 2018
A lot of truth in this, but I think it would have a greater impact if it was written as a conversation, however it is very valid.
Certainly made me remember some of the "middle class" conversations I've heard around a dinner table (can't...
Read full commentPosted in It's all about bread
Hi Poppy
Posted on Sun, 21 Jan 2018
I had a pork chop, carrots peas and potatoes and a cup of tea also alone .... oops did I say pork chop? What could that mean in 30 years. Don't matter I won't be around.
My point in this was, although people with power and influence using ...
Read full commentPosted in Me Too
Brilliant poem Pops
Posted on Fri, 27 Oct 2017
Says it all ..... well most of it. I think they really believed in what they were doing. My Grandfather lied about his age and signed up at 17. He was lucky he came home pretty much in one piece.
check this out: ...
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Well done Pops!
Posted on Thu, 26 Oct 2017
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