Ed Crane

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Dreaming of a Grey Christmas

Despite my apartment having a four-metre wide window facing south I’m still struggling to see the letters on the keyboard. It feels like it’s been...
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Black and White Survival.

Part of the view from my lounge window
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Invisible

Image from commons.wikimedia: Invisibility
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All That Glitters

I posted this on ABC in July 2014. It make me so sad to have to post it again. Nothing's changed except the TV is now 4K
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5 a.m.

Photo by me
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192 of my comments have received 201 Great Feedback votes

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Thanks Rhia

Posted on Sun, 09 Apr 2023

The photo is from Wiki.

When I lived down in Kent as a kid we sometimes went to the woodland to see them. Back then Mum and Nan were allowed to pick a few bulbs for the garden. They would grow but they were never the same. It didn't seem...

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Posted in Bluebell Woods

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Are you sure you believe this, David?

Posted on Sat, 08 Apr 2023

All can be forgiven,

For every day is a new day,

And we are all in this struggle together.

No one is perfect,

But we all need each other.

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Posted in Easter : A Prayer For The Future by Alfred N.Muggins

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You've done me a favour, Claudine

Posted on Tue, 04 Apr 2023

I found and downloaded 1984 full text from google! yes

 

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Posted in Waiting for the Flyers. Part 8 (David's opposite polarity)

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Cute!

Posted on Thu, 30 Mar 2023

laugh

Nice one 

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Posted in Predictive

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Who?

Posted on Wed, 29 Mar 2023

 

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Posted in "I Love Your......."

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Excellent last line, Ewan

Posted on Wed, 08 Mar 2023

My Butch was a guy I worked with when I went to Austalia, he was quite a bit older than me and passed away in 2017. He was on the board of an AFL club in Melbourne. I have to laugh at the thought of the look on his face and the accompanying...

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Posted in Women's Day

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I have two lambs like yours. we should start a flock :)

Posted on Wed, 01 Mar 2023

 

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Posted in I Sigh, You Sigh.

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sometimes it's good to be wrong

Posted on Sat, 18 Feb 2023

glad things are improving

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Posted in Don't Ask

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I like off-peak tourist traps

Posted on Mon, 13 Feb 2023

When I lived in Norfolk wandering the beaches at Happisburgh, Holkam and Dunwich in Suffolk in the winter was great.

But I guess as a kid I was an Emmet or a Grockle when we holidayed in the West. 

Your poem reminded me of those ...

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Posted in Exeter to Teignmouth, Off Peak Day Return

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The curse of privatising public transport

Posted on Thu, 09 Feb 2023

Unlike low cost airlines you can't fill up buses and trains all day. Take the non profit ones away, you lose a lifeline.

To run it properly it has to be a balance, but politicians whatever their party colour are blind to balance.

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Posted in Our Town

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