Ewan
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Ewan Lawrie
The picture is me signing copies of my novel, Gibbous House at Unbound Books HQ in Islington by the canal.
Both Moffat novels are available here
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Struthio
Not the name of a minor Shakespearean character, but the genus Linnaeus first applied to ostriches, which once upon a time was applied to the Emu and later not. Escaped common ostriches in Australia have established feral populations. Image from pixhere.com and doctored by me.
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There Will Be Dust (A Wedding Feast)
Going to a wedding tomorrow... Every gets soppy, even me. Image free for non-c use source: clipart.com
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Woodland Walk
Um... fairly self-explanatory, no? Picture taken by me when out walking the dog.
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The Myth of Olympians
I have played and followed sport all my life. I am thrilled by the endeavour, skill and sheer bloody-mindedness it takes to be the best at any sport. I just can't see the point of these Olympics, which are devalued by how they will be conducted. I really think a cancellation would have been better. Thousands of disappointed Olympian athletes, I know, but still... Image from wiki-commons fiddled with by me. Licence: CC BY 2.0
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Faces
We wear faces, until they wear us. Image created from PD components by author.
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This is our Facebook and Twitter Pick of the Day
Posted on Tue, 20 Aug 2019
The ever quirky hudsonmoon tries something different today and by golly it works well. That's why it's our Facebook and Twitter Pick of the Day. Why not share or retweet if you like it too?
Read full commentPosted in The Son God
This is our Facebook and Twitter Pick of the Day.
Posted on Tue, 13 Aug 2019
A comforting read, do click the link and listen to it being read extremely well by the author.
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Posted in "It was the Daisy...."
It's fairly recent
Posted on Wed, 14 Aug 2019
from a US radio advertising campaign from the 30's I think. It means this is going/has started well - possibly after repeated failed attempts. Popularised by Jack Benny and the like in comedy sketches thereafter.
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This
Posted on Tue, 30 Jul 2019
topical piece captures the futility of getting away from it all, whatever "it" is, it's in our baggage and that's why it's our Facebook and Twitter Pick of the Day.
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Most enjoyable.
Posted on Thu, 07 Feb 2019
One or two things. Incognito is one word.
Kirk is almost exclusively used for Church in the Church of Scotland. Your priest(s) are Catholics, I presume, since they practise the rite of Exorcism.
I like the idea of the stories being...
Read full commentPosted in Adam Maxwell -Farquhar (Tale 2)
I wonder
Posted on Thu, 31 Jan 2019
what the playground chants are now... we used to parrot chants about Ho Chi Minh, with no clue where Vietnam was. This has that kind of hypnotic rhythm. Cleverly done.
best
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Posted in Don't count your chickens
This splendid poem
Posted on Wed, 23 Jan 2019
is our Facebook and Twitter Pick of the Day. Why not share or retweet if you like it too.
Read full commentImage is copyright Dave Bevis source is https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3381711 and it is...
Posted in Thanks in part to Louis M and William W: another love poem
Nice
Posted on Wed, 23 Jan 2019
to see a dialect word in a poem (jitty) if we don't use them they'll die out. For those of a Yorkshire persuasion it's a ginnel, and if you're Jockinese (like me), it's a close.
Beautifully done.
best
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Posted in Thanks in part to Louis M and William W: another love poem
Lots to Enjoy
Posted on Fri, 21 Dec 2018
in this deceptively simple poem. I wonder if wouldn't work better without the first line? You show us all of that in the rest of the poem.
This is particularly beautiful
I turn once more to the laundry.
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Posted in love and laundry
It's worrying
Posted on Tue, 17 Jul 2018
looking back, sometimes. Old pals who took apprenticeships at 16 haven't lifted a tool in 30 years. Policemen some of them, or RAC men. The lucky few might do some shop-fitting though they're time-served carpenters and joiners. One lathe-turner...
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