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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

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17 Syllable Portrait

Rearrange these words into a well known phrase: It,fits,wear,if,cap,the ... Image made at canva.com using pd elements and no-AI
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Gold cherry

Sodality

Whatever ...
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Poem of the week

Orphic Pleasures

this is so old it was written on vellum ...
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Cherry

City Slicker

You'll work it out ... Image is PD

Little Golden Fishes

little golden fishes that the guiris drop in la fuente on the way to the clubs and bars from the fairground float side up in the fountain

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419 of my comments have received 464 Great Feedback votes

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This is today's Pick of the Day September 8th 2024

Posted on Mon, 08 Sep 2025

This droll take on this week's inspiration, whilst not being perfect, is nevertheless our Pick of the Day.

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Posted in It's Grim Up North

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Beautiful,

Posted on Mon, 25 Aug 2025

 just beautiful.

E x

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This is our Social Media Pick of the Day 20th August 2025

Posted on Mon, 18 Aug 2025

  Gripping, taut writing in this longer project and that's why it's today's pick of the day. Check out the beginning here https://www.abctales.com/story/wwjabercrombie/ghigau

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This is our Social Media Pick of the Day 28th July 2025

Posted on Mon, 28 Jul 2025

  This is very, very funny. And that's why it's today's Pick of the Day.

Please do share on your social media, fellow ABC-ers.

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Posted in There’s a Guy Works Down the Chip Shop Swears He’s Engels

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This is our Social Media Pick of the Day for 16th June 2025

Posted on Sat, 14 Jun 2025

This more writer-y than a writer-y piece is our pick of the day today. Do please share on your social media if you can.

Well done!

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Posted in Expose him to light

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Congratulations, This is our Pick of the Day, 14th April 2025

Posted on Mon, 14 Apr 2025

 this clever teaser for Phil's imminent release of 'Dead Reckoning' a humourous novel about the adventures of a pair of undertakers, is well worth a read and whets the appetite for his books appearance.

Do please share if you like this...

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Ha, Very fine.

Posted on Mon, 14 Apr 2025

 I did something similar (although perhaps not so ventriloquistically adroit) with The Moffat Trilogy. One thing this kind of thing does do is make you look at your work differently.

Anyway, as I say, skillfully done.

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I really do like this, T.O.

Posted on Mon, 14 Apr 2025

 However, I am particularly glad you didn't post an image with it.

E.

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Posted in The planet of anal probes

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Perhaps not as outrageously ridiculous

Posted on Mon, 14 Apr 2025

 as previous episodes, but very good all the same.

I'm not entirely sure "relent" is the word you want at line 12

OED does have at 2†b."to yield, give way; to give up a previous determination or obstinacy" which does fit." which...

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Posted in Boris and the Art of the Deal

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Ho-Ha-Heh, Hertha Beh-Ess-Tseh!

Posted on Mon, 31 Mar 2025

 I had a couple of military pals in Berlin, who followed Hertha, who - in those days - had quite a hooligan set-up. There were some Kneipen that were only for Herta fans in Spandau just a stop or two down the U-Bahn from Wilmersdorf,where the...

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