Ed Crane
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New Directions (20)
When I arrived home Karen’s car was in the drive. I squeezed mine in behind it. The dashboard clock said 17:17. The driver door opened and Karen...
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New Directions (19)
A black phone on a cluttered desk started to ring in a friendly warbling tone. I reached out to pick up the handset and woke up relieved I wasn't...
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When we Felt Sorry for Them
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STILL LIFE
My three objects pictured as a (sort of) still life
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New Directions (18)
It was almost midnight when I arrived home. Chucking my clothes in a bloodstained heap near the toilet bowl I climbed into bed naked and dirty too...
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When you have an Empire based on Feudalism lasting
Posted on Sun, 09 Apr 2023
500 years longer than most of the rest of Europe . . . What else do you expect to happen?
It's not just Putin who is dangerous. It's the whole of Russian history. There is much to do there.
Read full commentPosted in Putin’s Blessing on the Old Soviet Union : An Anti Alternative View of Easter In Ukraine and Russia by Alfred N.Muggins
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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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.
Read full commentPosted in Easter : A Prayer For The Future by Alfred N.Muggins
You've done me a favour, Claudine
Posted on Tue, 04 Apr 2023
I found and downloaded 1984 full text from google!
Read full commentPosted in Waiting for the Flyers. Part 8 (David's opposite polarity)
Cute!
Posted on Thu, 30 Mar 2023
Nice one
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Who?
Posted on Wed, 29 Mar 2023
Read full commentPosted in "I Love Your......."
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...
Read full commentPosted in Women's Day
I have two lambs like yours. we should start a flock :)
Posted on Wed, 01 Mar 2023
Read full commentPosted in I Sigh, You Sigh.
sometimes it's good to be wrong
Posted on Sat, 18 Feb 2023
glad things are improving
Read full commentPosted in Don't Ask
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 ...
Read full commentPosted in Exeter to Teignmouth, Off Peak Day Return
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