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Bron-2

By Ivan the OK-ish on Sat, 03 Jan 2026

Continued from Chapter 1: Bron-1 | ABCtales Chapter 2 Bron had been one of Chris’s finds. He’d seen her in a coffee shop on Queensway in Bayswater...

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Bron-1

By Ivan the OK-ish on Wed, 31 Dec 2025

Chapter 1 She hit the surface of the water, arms and legs spreadeagled, with a crash rather than a splash. “MAM!” she shrieked. The cold hit her like...

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Fade

By Ivan the OK-ish on Tue, 23 Dec 2025

FADE The light is fading on a February evening in an old industrial city in north-west Europe. The woman’s footsteps ring out as she hurries along...

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The Ride -5 of 5

By Ivan the OK-ish on Sat, 22 Nov 2025

Continued from Part 4 The Ride-4 | ABCtales Frank finished early again the following evening. He’d promised Lisa the ultimate pub crawl. They got...

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Perhaps it already is. Do you

Posted on Mon, 24 Nov 2025

Perhaps it already is. Do you think they'd tell us if it was?

Posted in The Harvest Floor (Chapter Three)

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That image is fine - couldn't

Posted on Tue, 30 Sep 2025

That image is fine - couldn't have done better myself. Glad to see you got one of the North Anglesey Coast on a relatively calm day - we don't want to be accused of exaggerating, do we?

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The world needs more cat

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The world needs more cat stories. It would be a better place. At least, that's what Lulu and Sasha tell me...

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All credit to him for going

Posted on Thu, 01 Jan 2026

All credit to him for going back to his roots in Nigeria; many sports people with his sort of money would choose to spend all their time in their luxury London homes.

You take a chance every time you venture onto an African road.

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I always say, if you can only

Posted on Fri, 02 Jan 2026

I always say, if you can only keep one part of your body warm, heat your feet. That was the principle behind the old railway foot-warmers, before the days of proper heating in train carriages. Big cans filled with hot water that you could hire at...

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Biblical

Posted on Thu, 27 Nov 2025

"...Priyatelkata and I went there to fetch water in earthenware pots that we carried on our heads, hoping to meet Bob Geldof along the way. Goats grazing at the roadside ran away from us because of the terrible smell..."

It sounds biblical...

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Autumn - my favourite season?

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'And soon to go' - You capture the transitoriness of the seasons and life in general so well.

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Glad to see someone else names their cars

Posted on Sun, 19 Oct 2025

Glad to see someone else names their cars - Fionnuala the Fiat, meet Gertie the VW and Hilda the BMW.

I spent a night and a day in Strabane, just over the border in the late 1980s. It was...interesting.

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Running amok

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I too have been accused of Wonton behaviour in the food aisle...

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In the best traditions of Victorian hymnists

Posted on Sun, 12 Oct 2025

Written in the best traditions of Victorian hymnists (if that's the right word). Perhaps the style is due for a revival...