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KHEPRI

Thank you Eds. for the cherry yesterday which seems to have arrived at the same time I removed this for some 'tinkering'
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Cherry

Four of Plenty

Cricket on Shanklin's shore bowling onto rippled sand while the water is out. Grandad surprises Dad with a slow leg spin. Dad’s eye for the ball must...
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Cherry

New Directions (21)

Entering the threshold I looked down at the hall mat with its yellow elephant pattern – the first thing I saw when I first visited Celia’s home...
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232 of my comments have received 244 Great Feedback votes

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Thank you Drew!

Posted on Wed, 10 May 2023

I am very pleased.

I've loved Millet's work ever since I first saw The Angelus, such a powerful work of art.

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Posted in Somewhere Outside Cherbourg

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I'll drink to that! Make mine an Abbott

Posted on Sun, 07 May 2023

 

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Posted in The ‘Green’ King by Alfred N.Muggins

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British Democracy

Posted on Sun, 07 May 2023

strikes me as one of the most subtle and successful forms of brain washing on the planet. Even if you don't live there anymore, once subjected to it one is never quite free of it. 

The thing is, it would not be anywhere near as successful...

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Posted in The King of Certain Subjects

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You might want to clear this with Insert

Posted on Sat, 06 May 2023

but you can post the the photo on wiki about Diana  providing you attribute it to the owner and a link tothe licence.

here is the link to wiki commons explaining it:

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Posted in Princess Diana. Part Three.

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An excellent synopsis, David

Posted on Tue, 02 May 2023

I really like your description of Lavrov. An Orwellian if ever there was one!

2+2=5, War is Peace, Ingorance is strength, Freedom is Slavery and all that!

Hilary Clinton said he was an asshole. I guess she was being polite. 

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Posted in Putinpot’s May Day! : Atonement! By Alfred N.Muggins

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Hi Rhia. No the tubes are their droppings

Posted on Sun, 30 Apr 2023

I tried to send you a link but it's too long. Google Privet Hawk droppoings and you'll see what I mean.

I guess our teachers taught the same stuff, but I was always fascinated by insects in particular, ants, beetles, Moths/Butterflies ect...

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Posted in Hunting the Sphinx ligustri

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I guess you must miss the Almond blossom in Andalusia

Posted on Fri, 28 Apr 2023

My friend, Maria told me about how beautiful they are. She said they were disappearing though. We talked about going, but it's a long way from the Canaries where we lived at that time. 

 

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Posted in Hawthorn

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I doubt you are a snob since you asked the question

Posted on Mon, 24 Apr 2023

Maybe you just have good taste.

I had Red Robin in the garden but as a stand alone shrub not a hedge. I prefer wooden fences with plants growing in them.

PVC is awful and impractical and doesn't last very long, but a third of the...

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Posted in Am I a Snob?

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Thanks a lot doni

Posted on Wed, 12 Apr 2023

And congrats on your gold. It's good work, makes me laugh. The quality of your writing is terrific.

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Posted in Waiting for the Flyers - Part 10 Memories

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This is good stuff

Posted on Wed, 12 Apr 2023

Did I read you play a guitar?

Anyway when I read this I find myself trying to make up a tune to sing to it. 

I like this very much

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Posted in Over The Bones

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