Ewan
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34 collections on the site.
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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.
All three Moffat novels are available here
My stories
A Place in the Sun
This is an old poem, 11 years old, in fact. I had been in Spain for 8 years at the time I wrote it. Nothing lasts forever and I think I knew it even then. Anyway, not much of interest here. Image Wikipedia commons.
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Miracle of Love
You believe what you believe, and I'll believe what I believe. Image wikipedia commons under CC licence.
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Looking
No explanations. Image is PD.
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The Road to Erehwon
You'll work it out, don't worry. Image is Peter Breughel the Elder's The Land of Cockaigne, it is in the public domain and the Alte Pinakothek in Munich, where I've seen it.
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Afternoons Without Spoons
Entered in a poetry competition more than 10 years ago. I think it came 2nd last. I've just found it again. Perhaps you'd prefer it if I hadn't. Image author's own, made at canva.com using a collage technique.
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Robert Palmer
Posted on Fri, 23 Feb 2024
Proper Yorkshireman. (I always read the summaries).
Read full commentPosted in Johnny Ten Levs
Mexico '70
Posted on Tue, 06 Feb 2024
... Brazil... a player who couldn't head the ball because of eye problems. Tostao at centre forward, when he was really a winger. But they already had two. Rivelinho with his blasted free-kicks. Jairzinho (no not that berk at Middlesbro'), Pele...
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Congratulations this is our Pick of the Day Jan 19th 2024
Posted on Wed, 17 Jan 2024
Well done.
Please share far and wide, fellow ABCTalers
Read full commentPosted in Enoshima (Part One of Two)
In that case,
Posted on Fri, 19 Jan 2024
welcome to the club. :-D
Read full commentPosted in Only Here for The Poets
Splendid as usual,
Posted on Fri, 19 Jan 2024
worth the read for Middle Eastenders alone.
I do love some of the pet/nicknames other languages have. I believe Mahtab can be rendered as 'Splendour of the Moon'. Beautiful, that.
Do keep going. I believe you have the raw...
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Congratulations! This is our Pick of the Day 16th Jan 2024
Posted on Tue, 16 Jan 2024
Funny, thought-provoking and sci-fi, what more could we want? This continuing story deserves all the readers it can get, that's why it's our pick of the day. Do, please do your bit, fellow ABCTales readers, by sharing it on Social Media.
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Congratulations! This is our Pick of the Day 3rd Jan 2024
Posted on Wed, 03 Jan 2024
Funny, erudite and sly, this is our Pick of the Day. Well done.
Please could those ABC-ers who can share this on such Social Media as they use.
If one person succeeds, we all succeed.
E.
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Licking your duvet, Eh?
Posted on Wed, 03 Jan 2024
You spend too much time with those cats!
Keep going! I need a larf!
E x
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Tenses
Posted on Wed, 03 Jan 2024
In the first para you mix up your tenses. The night wind "blows" but the moon "hung".
Later you have
"At 10:46pm on Friday 3rd December, a random incident occur outside The Beachcomber pub."
Did you start this as all...
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Marvellous stuff.
Posted on Wed, 03 Jan 2024
You have Long Cheney Jr vice Lon Chaney Jr in the paragraph beginning "A goaty, hairy chap..."
Do tell me to bog off if it's deliberate.
Enjoyed the Stones reference.
Well done.
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