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Season of Mists

By GlosKat on Wed, 29 Oct 2025

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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Death on the Beach

By GlosKat on Tue, 28 Oct 2025

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.
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Some You Win ..

By GlosKat on Mon, 27 Oct 2025

'Would you like a beer', asks the host. I think he's called Mark. I open my mouth but before I can speak, James says 'She doesn't drink'. He tries to...
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Storm Wracked Sky

By GlosKat on Mon, 27 Oct 2025

Can you be drowned in a storm-wracked sky As deep as a storm-wracked sea ? Can you run aground on a pale full moon And shelter in her lee ?
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205 of my comments have received 241 Great Feedback votes

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Ah Apps.  What we old timers

Posted on Tue, 23 Jun 2026

Ah Apps.  What we old timers used to call Programs.  That was in the days I was called A Programmer.  Then I became (without getting out of my chair)  A Developer.  I didn't write Programs any more, I Developed Software.  I guess one day people...

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The Fine Art of Strimming

Posted on Tue, 23 Jun 2026

Your jokes do make me laugh Turlough, somehow even the ones that I dont't get, or half get, are funny,  It's the way you tell 'em.

Glad to hear that Ludo is still alive (what's left of him). 

My friend had a jack russell who got...

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Great attitude Jack, wishing

Posted on Sat, 20 Jun 2026

Great attitude Jack, wishing you well.  Kat x

PS As well as being glad you don't live in America, I think you should be glad you don't live in England.  The NHS sounds so much better up there in Scotland, no NHS prescription charges for a...

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Oh Harry I'm crying, that's

Posted on Fri, 19 Jun 2026

Oh Harry I'm crying, that's awful.  I remember the first cat I ever had that was killed by a car, there was just a bit of blood round her mouth like Bobby, but otherwise she was unmarked.  I thought she looked like a toy where the battery had run...

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Ooh that's so interesting Jay

Posted on Tue, 16 Jun 2026

Ooh that's so interesting Jay, sort of Matrixy but taken beyond.

I will stop wearing my proof reader's hat when I read your stories, although I do find it very difficult to take off.

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Is this Arlene ?  Wasn't her

Posted on Tue, 16 Jun 2026

Is this Arlene ?  Wasn't her husband Earl not Brian ?  Didn't Petey get into the car with her ?

Or maybe I shouldn't be trying to rationalise something irrational.

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Thanks Harry.  I'll put that

Posted on Thu, 11 Jun 2026

Thanks Harry.  I'll put that on my books bucket list !

I think it's great people on ABC recommend books to each other.  

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That's so interesting !  I'm

Posted on Thu, 11 Jun 2026

That's so interesting !  I'm really pleased you managed to get out there to see it.  I've been to Venice and imagined my great-gran wandering around the same streets in a long skirt and a big hat.

I don't know if you've read Isabella Bird'...

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I think women were a lot more

Posted on Thu, 11 Jun 2026

I think women were a lot more intrepid than we might think, Harry.  Well done to your gran.

My great grandmother, a working class girl from Southampton (in fact the mother of my grandad above) went to sea on the White Star liners as a...

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Brilliant as usual, Jay. 

Posted on Sun, 14 Jun 2026

Brilliant as usual, Jay. 

I don't know how much of the science in the story is true, but I do know that the brain can be 'tricked' into seeing colours.  When I went for an interview in 1972 to Reading University's science department, one...

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