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.
All three Moffat novels are available here
My stories
Lines
Six lines are not a verse - or indeed - averse. Odd, it's fine if you pass it by. In red are your options for punctuating the last couplet, which will change the meaning of the lines, if you think about it. Image made at canva.com
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15 Helping People Every Day
I bet Hastings Library Services are much better than this, but "artistic licence" and all that. All complaints to E. Wailer, C/O Unhelpful Literary Agency, Paternoster Row, London EC4M 4BA Image created at canva.com
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14 "Laters"
More of this? You ask. Of course, I say. In 2022 around 6% of rough-sleeping homeless/indigent people were veterans. This was down from 22% in 1997. (Good job, charities, but keep going) Not all people who are homeless are sleeping rough. Image author's own.
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The Hunting of the Wren
It's a folk-rite of renewal. Like many, in its original form, it is unutterably savage. This is an old poem, (2015) but I've rescued it from an old hard disk because it reminds me of the clips I saw of last night's ridiculous pre-election slanging match. Image licence Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic Image source wikipedia.org.
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13 Don't You Step on my BluTacked Screws...
Sorry about that... More of Prospero Vint. Image author's own
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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...
Read full commentPosted in Only Here for The Poets
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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Read full commentPosted in Parcel for you...Part 13
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.
Read full commentPosted in Cernunnos
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
Read full commentPosted in This Sort of Thing - December 2023 - Side A
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.
Read full commentPosted in Cernunnos
And to you
Posted on Wed, 20 Dec 2023
AND the fellow in The Adventuring Hat. I hope his adventures are more Andersen than Grimm.
Tks,as always, for reading.
E x
Read full commentPosted in Hats
Congratulations! This is our Pick of the Day 5th December 2023
Posted on Tue, 05 Dec 2023
Well done, multum in parvo indeed. As Insert pointed out, jacket pockets as advent calendar is some conceit. Marvellous.
Please, would all members share on whatever Social Media they use?
Read full commentPosted in Satsuma Rinds
Extra big helping
Posted on Tue, 05 Dec 2023
of your splendid diary - "eafily af good af Famuel Pepyf" Mrs Pepys.
Erm... I am probably being dim, but since прия́телка in Russian is a slightly more formal 'Gal Pal', is your lovely partner appearing pseudonymously?
NO! Don't...
Read full commentPosted in This Sort of Thing - November 2023 – Second Half
Congratulations! This is our Pick of the Day 24 Nov 2023
Posted on Thu, 23 Nov 2023
Chilling and matter of fact at once, in a poem too!
Congratulations on being our Pick of the Day.
Please, could all readers share this on whatever SM platforms you use?
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