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Autumn Haiku

Daylight disappears Cold nights and warm embraces Hide us until spring
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Cherry

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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Cherry

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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Goldfish

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Season of Mists

We walk through the park, holding hands, out of habit. Together. Apart. The November air has that kind of stillness you only get in autumn. Not just...

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158 of my comments have received 194 Great Feedback votes

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Mr Gradgrind I remember him !

Posted on Tue, 02 Jun 2026

Mr Gradgrind I remember him !  'Never wonder, Louisa'.

Brilliant piece Harry.  I remember how more than anything else the injustice of a situation used to upset me (still does actually).

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Telling a whole story in so

Posted on Sun, 17 May 2026

Telling a whole story in so few words.  And those words pregnant with menace and mystery.  That's great writing.

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Posted in Stay

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You're welcome to use the

Posted on Tue, 26 May 2026

You're welcome to use the picture I took of our bus shelter in :

https://www.abctales.com/story/gloskat/twenty-minutes-village-bus-stop...

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Double Standards

Posted on Tue, 26 May 2026

Adults' double standards are so confusing to kids.

As a small child (about 6 I guess) I had a couple of toy plastic racing cars (I was always a tomboy).  Being brought up a Catholic I knew that it was good to be kind and generous and all...

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Posted in Tom All Alone 16 (ii)

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Oh Harry I know this feeling

Posted on Thu, 21 May 2026

Oh Harry I know this feeling - listening to your parents arguing. Frightened and fascinated at the same time.  Although to be honest it wasn't arguing in our case - just a load of accusations about other women from my mum, and her crying, and my...

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Posted in Tom All Alone 15

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I'm so pleased to see you so

Posted on Fri, 15 May 2026

I'm so pleased to see you so positive and at peace with yourself Jenny.  Kat x

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Posted in Where Thoughts Take Me

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And another one

Posted on Mon, 11 May 2026

And another Petri dish :

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn5pe4yel1ko

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Posted in Life on Berth

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Some encouragement

Posted on Mon, 11 May 2026

I think it's encouraging how many places are now banning these gigantic floating hotels.

Oh, and when my grandad was a trainee chef on the Aquitania in the 1920's, TB was endemic in the crew's quarters. So nothing new about...

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Posted in Life on Berth

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I'll give cruises a wide berth thank you

Posted on Mon, 11 May 2026

Yep, just like I've always imagined it Jane.

Cruises always make me think of two quotes :

'Cruise ships are floating Petri dishes'  - don't know who said that, but it's very apposite right now

'Hell is other people' - Jean...

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This is wonderful Vera.  So

Posted on Fri, 08 May 2026

This is wonderful Vera.  So expressive and atmospheric.  Have you ever read David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas ?  I think you would enjoy it.

My last one left his slow cooker behind.  It is absolutely wonderful and a lot more use than...

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Posted in Ghosted: A Meteorology

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