Ed Crane
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I have 291 stories published in
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My stories have been read 662195 times
and 295 of my stories have been cherry picked.
225 of my 2,025 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 234 votes
My stories
New Directions (31) UPDATED
Even though I was expecting it, the harsh sound of my American telephone setting startled me. ‘Bonsoir, Mon Lieutenant Peters.’ Addressing me by my...
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Walking the Dog on a Frosty Morning
The morning sun arrives under the radar. A hard taskmaster heartlessly pinpointing every single speck of dust in the house. Outside the light even...
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The Lonely Goose on The Durme
I was planning to write about this bird, the new IP seemed a good place for it. . . . pic taken by me
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New Directions (30) continued
As I walked back to the station I watched the cloud bank muscle in. By the time I reached the station it was after 4pm and getting prematurely dark,...
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New Directions (30) total rewrite
Short, but I hope explanatory
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I’ll keep an eye out for the storks not sure when they arrive
Posted on Fri, 14 Mar 2025
Very few otters in Belgium at the mo about ten pairs I think all in the Antwerp region. A very detail study of the water system was done checking for pcb and mercury .... falling but still high so they will struggle to build numbers. There is...
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Thanks very much Di
Posted on Fri, 14 Mar 2025
Living near a river was a new experience when I came here (I grew up a few miles from the Thames but it kind of doesn't count since it was very polluted back then)
I find it relaxing walking the dog on the tow path or the unmade track on...
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Definitely the best of the bunch this week
Posted on Tue, 04 Mar 2025
Well deserved gold for this excellent thought provoking poem
I like cows and I've never been afraid to be in a field with them ...... until now :)
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you could put this to music, Rhia
Posted on Wed, 12 Mar 2025
I found myself singing along as I read it.
Very cheery!
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Yes! The snowdrops are out here!
Posted on Fri, 21 Feb 2025
beautiful poem about the long wait for spring.
sorry to be a nit pick, but line 6 > maybe
well deserved gold
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Bike shed forays? not in our school
Posted on Fri, 21 Feb 2025
I went to a boy's school non-mixed. the only fiddling done in our bike sheds were with bikes and knackede our motorbikes if you were in the sixth;
Read full commentPosted in School Days - Walking Through My Mind
Hope lubricates the wheels of life
Posted on Thu, 06 Feb 2025
Keeping it moving on
Read full commentPosted in "Fragile"
Hello David and Di
Posted on Tue, 28 Jan 2025
As you both say holocaust is not the same as what happened in Gaza, but it's in the same ballpark.
Regarding the situation in Gaza I find appalling but I get frustrated when criticms of Netenyhu's methods are wriiten off as anti semitism (...
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Yes I agree but memories are short, school curriculum planners
Posted on Tue, 28 Jan 2025
also it seems.
The one lot of people you may or may not be refferring to do not seem to have learnt much from their memories. (other than how to do the same)
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Personally I am for it, but in the country I live in
Posted on Fri, 29 Nov 2024
I am free to make that choice.
And all I know is: at my age, I would not want to go through another course of chemo (it would probably kill me anyway)
Read full commentPosted in Assisted Suicide.
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