Ivan the OK-ish

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I have 32 stories published in 2 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 13049 times and 37 of my stories have been cherry picked.
14 of my 82 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 16 votes

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Chris Lewis

 

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Bron-10

Continued from Chapter 9: Bron-9 | ABCtales Chapter 10 “I say, Bron - there’s a guy stood on the traffic island - looking up at our windows.” Bron...
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Bron-9

Contined from Chapter 8: Bron-8 | ABCtales It was a dreamy, slightly misty, warm Friday morning. Bron leaned against the windowsill, watching the...
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Bron-8

Continued from Chapter 7: Bron 7 | ABCtales Chapter 8 Pubs were grim places, in Bron’s very limited experience, but she liked the Plasterer’s Arms in...
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Bron 7

Continued from Chapter 6: Bron-6 | ABCtales Chapter 7 The brakes thumped on the final time on the five-hour journey. The night had closed in at...
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Bron-6

Continued from Chapter 5: Bron-5 | ABCtales Chapter 6 The lounge in the Maryfield Senior Home was dark, save for a small pool of light from a small...
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14 of my comments have received 16 Great Feedback votes

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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?

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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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Posted in Welsh Lessons-4

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Oasis in a troubled land

Posted on Tue, 20 Jan 2026

I once found myself walking past a football ground in Famagusta, North Cyprus. People were streaming in. I stopped and asked the guy at the turnstyle how much it was to go in; about £5, which I didn't have on me. "Oh come in anyway," he said. "...

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Posted in The Beautiful Game

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The world needs more cat

Posted on Fri, 02 Jan 2026

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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Posted in The Cat Krampus Campus (and Moment who couldn't resist not doing nothing)

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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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Posted in Oluwafemi Olaseni.

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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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Posted in Cold Feet in Germany

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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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Posted in Nor Any Drop to Drink

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Autumn - my favourite season?

Posted on Thu, 06 Nov 2025

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

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Posted in Farewell Glows

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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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Posted in Shillelagh Shopping

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Running amok

Posted on Tue, 14 Oct 2025

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

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Posted in Want.

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