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Twenty Minutes at the Village Bus Stop
I'm sitting in the village bus shelter. It's twenty minutes before the bus is due, but its arrival times are as fluid as today's pouring rain, and as...
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Autumn Haiku
Daylight disappears Cold nights and warm embraces Hide us until spring
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Retreads
“How long was I dead for ?”, I asked Jason the male nurse as he checked the chart hanging at the end of my metal framed bed. A minute, two minutes, I...
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A Pen y ffrwd love story
Sometimes I run up the hill, and sometimes I ride Khyber up there. Now I am sitting on the Pen y ffrwd hillside looking out over the long grass of...
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I know just what you mean
Posted on Thu, 22 Jan 2026
I know just what you mean Rhiannon, and you've expressed it so well.
When the days start getting really shorter and darker it's November, but we've got Christmas to look forward to. Then after that it's the solstice to look forward to (...
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Very funny and totally
Posted on Thu, 22 Jan 2026
Very funny and totally credible. Poor Katerina !
Read full commentPosted in 4. Away with Words (ii)
Blessed
Posted on Wed, 21 Jan 2026
Harry, you may not be blessed with a natural instinct for marketing your wares, but you are certainly blessed with a talent for writing. I love the way you can blend the funny and the sad, and make both completely credible with no clash in tone (...
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Sorry Claudine, I was just
Posted on Wed, 21 Jan 2026
Sorry Claudine, I was just generalising about how I feel in general about native language passages in novels.
Absolutely, I understand you have to know what people are actually saying on ABC. I didn't word it very well.
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Fun for free
Posted on Tue, 20 Jan 2026
Yes you don't have to spend a lot of money to have fun. That's a lovely, sweet image. It's cheered me up, thank you.
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Thanks JJ.
Posted on Tue, 20 Jan 2026
They're just kids you know, they want to play because that's what kids do. In normal times.
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Mad landlords
Posted on Sun, 18 Jan 2026
Yes I remember Noel, he employed the philosopher. There are indeed many similarities between The Beehive and The North Pole pubs.
I still live near Swindon. I think you and I should take Harry out for a pint at The Beehive sometime.
Read full commentPosted in 3. An Expedition To The Pole (i)
Ambre Beware
Posted on Tue, 20 Jan 2026
I think you've actually had a lucky escape. Early versions of Ambre Solaire contained bergamot essence, which was subsequently deemed to be carcinogenic at certain concentrations.
"In the late 1990s, the European Commission ruled to...
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Jeremy Bowen
Posted on Wed, 14 Jan 2026
I read an article on the BBC website the other day by veteran war correspondent Jeremy Bowen. He said that in his 50 years of reporting on wars around the globe he's never seen a year like 2025. He was talking about existing conflicts not...
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Having been brought up a
Posted on Sun, 18 Jan 2026
Having been brought up a Catholic and gone to convent school, we were taught that suicide was a sin, and if you killed yourself you couldn't go to heaven. Which makes Patricia's suicide even worse, were that possible. A 14 year old girl must be...
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