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Parcel for you - Part 56

By Jane Hyphen on Fri, 28 Mar 2025

‘Thank you Cedric,’ Vanessa said through gritted teeth, ‘you really don’t have to do any more tidying. Go and relax for a bit.’ He ignored her...

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Familiar Faces

By Jane Hyphen on Thu, 20 Mar 2025

She hadn’t lived there for very long, just over a year and it was all so different to what she’d known. It was a new beginning. A glistening...

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Parcel for you - Part 55

By Jane Hyphen on Thu, 13 Mar 2025

‘You have to give him his freedom, Mum, so he can develop as a sentient being. I really think we, as a family, are pioneers of this new technology...

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Parcel for you - Part 54

By Jane Hyphen on Fri, 28 Feb 2025

‘Put him on his charger for a bit then, he looks tired.’ ‘He cannot look tired, that isn’t possible, his face never changes. He’s fine Vanessa. I...

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Thank you, Di and thanks for

Posted on Fri, 27 Jun 2025

Thank you, Di and thanks for the cherries. Grief is different with an animal, it's more instantly accessible and I think it taps into unresolved grief from the past.

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There are so many details

Posted on Tue, 24 Jun 2025

There are so many details here, a clear picture building and so atmospheric as others have said. That lonely feeling you experience as a child when you're scared but you know your parents will dismiss your fears. And the woods - I could feel the...

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I like how, instead of

Posted on Tue, 17 Jun 2025

I like how, instead of feeling sad and mourning the loss of physical strength, you have simply transferred your time to something else, equally pleasurable and creative. A garden can be enjoyed simply by passively being in it or even seeing it...

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This put a smile on my face,

Posted on Wed, 11 Jun 2025

This put a smile on my face, despite the hardships and annoyances you seem to be enduring. I enjoyed the poem and the animal details alongside local highlights. We also have a few vacuum cleaners, I won't say how many, some are very old but I...

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Such a perfectly adapted

Posted on Thu, 12 Jun 2025

Such a perfectly adapted creature, fascinating. The perfection of our natural world makes you wonder about lots of things.

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I love this. A hard working

Posted on Sat, 07 Jun 2025

I love this. A hard working capable employee. Your brain requires a different sort of discipline to cope with mundane tasks and do them well, day after day. It's sort of meditation. Remy growing his hair is sort of iconic, he keeps the rest of...

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Thank you, Insert. This is

Posted on Fri, 06 Jun 2025

Thank you, Insert. This is something I started a few years back and I just unearthed it. Chapter 1 is really sweary...

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Agree with you, UK self

Posted on Fri, 06 Jun 2025

Agree with you, UK self-checkouts often have all the staff who formerly manned the now redundant tills standing around like the gestapo watching you so you don't nick anything. The worst thing is when they emit that dull impatient bleep because...

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An inciteful summing up of

Posted on Thu, 05 Jun 2025

An inciteful summing up of the current mood. It's impossible to imagine the future and difficult to plan for anything. The media constantly throwing threats at us, gloom and doom but how much of it is real? For sure our economy needs a huge shake...

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I still haven't been to

Posted on Sun, 01 Jun 2025

I still haven't been to Scotland, Jenny. It's on my list of things to do. Heather and craggy rocks, a place away from man-made complications and the inconvenience of counting time. There is nothing more valuable.