Written after I saw a French and Saunders skit on the iconic scene where the Knight plays chess with Death on the beach, from Ingmar Bergman's The Seventh Seal . This has been previously posted on ABC, so it might look familiar. There are a few stories I'm putting back up.
Amazing Grace
Posted on Wed, 31 Dec 2025
Very pleased to see Amazing Grace make a reappearance, she sounds like a lady who liked a NYE party !
Chestita Nova Godina to you and Priyatelkata.
So as not to miss my last opportunity of 2025 to send a comment thread off at a...
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Time Travel
Posted on Sat, 27 Dec 2025
Hi Beanzie
In chapter 1 Ginny says this to Timmy : babe, you’re fifty two, it ain’t gonna happen
But in chapter 3 above it says : me a man in his forties wondering what had happened
Timmy seems to be going backwards in time...
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Dickens
Posted on Wed, 24 Dec 2025
It feels sort of Dickensian to me, I think it's the names and the dynamic between them. With Archibald as Sam Weller and Josiah as Mr Pickwick.
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I loved the dialogue between
Posted on Wed, 24 Dec 2025
I loved the dialogue between Josiah and Archibald ! Very clever and very funny.
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What a poignant story
Posted on Tue, 23 Dec 2025
What a poignant story Turlough, with your trademark gentle humour. And what a spooky coincidence you were writing it when he, unexpectedly by the public anyway, should have passed away.
I agree about his music, I hate 'Driving Home for...
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This is hilarious ! I do so
Posted on Sun, 21 Dec 2025
This is hilarious ! I do so hope Tommy can jump through all the legal hoops in time and get his drone, water pistol and growly bear delivered for Christmas Day.
The contents are obviously different, but it reminds me of the letters sent...
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And jolly well deserved too.
Posted on Wed, 17 Dec 2025
And jolly well deserved too.
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Blimey I wasn't expecting
Posted on Sat, 13 Dec 2025
Blimey I wasn't expecting that.
I'd like to thank my mom, my dog .. and all my lovely friends at ABC !
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Just had this reply from the
Posted on Wed, 17 Dec 2025
Just had this reply from the ranger Kieren :
"Not too many Beech trees around as they aren’t really the right tree for the Waterpark landscape (they don't like wet feet!) "
But he told me where there are a few so if it ever stops...
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As a gardener I found this
Posted on Wed, 17 Dec 2025
As a gardener I found this chain of comments about beech nuts very interesting. I've just looked them up and apparently they are notoriously difficult to get to germinate. Even in the wild the germination rate is only 10%.
This is an...
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