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My stories have been read 1689150 times and 538 of my stories have been cherry picked.
223 of my 5,429 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 237 votes

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Cherry

Among the sparrows

Curiosity finds a niche.
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St. Malo bound

Playing with an idea

Celebration

Not quite an ode

Apropos of Nothing

Is there a physicist in the house?

Rag man's horse

To the sound of wood-pigeons
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223 of my comments have received 237 Great Feedback votes

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I know. It's a bugger. Pity

Posted on Sun, 11 Feb 2018

I know. It's a bugger. Pity the adverbs. Adjectives frantically running for any available cover. Or calmly making their way. So heroic. You, too, midear.

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Posted in The old folks

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Very sad but well-conveyed.

Posted on Fri, 09 Feb 2018

Very sad but well-conveyed. It says a lot about you that you don't turn your back. Great writing.

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Posted in Dear Mum

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I couldn’t agree more about

Posted on Fri, 09 Feb 2018

I couldn’t agree more about the "out there" there thing. It's whatever it conjures, within the bounds of suggestion, I suppose. I like the break, but I don't know why. Thinking time for the speaker, maybe. Reflecting on what they've just said, on...

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Posted in Some Seam Shared

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Time to read at last! Lessons

Posted on Tue, 06 Feb 2018

Time to read at last! Lessons cx'd.

Thank you for spanking niggling little prejudices about class and money. Maybe I'm just very grumpy today. I enjoyed this a lot, Elsie. The style is very readable and conversational. Brilliant. Also,...

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Posted in Les Rowse, Philippe and I Part 2

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Very much worth slowing down

Posted on Mon, 22 Jan 2018

Very much worth slowing down almost to a stop to read and understand this lovely piece.

My problem, MarciaMarcia, is ownership of two left feet.

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Posted in What of Love’s

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Couldn't agree more, Richard.

Posted on Tue, 16 Jan 2018

Couldn't agree more, Richard. I've been doing a lot of cramming up recently. There's such a body of history and technique, and great style and inspiration to be found, but in the end it comes down to what each of us, individually, has to say -...

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Posted in -Keyhole

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Almost Haiku in its mystical

Posted on Tue, 16 Jan 2018

Almost Haiku in its mystical brevity.

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Posted in -Keyhole

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Yes it is. We just need

Posted on Sun, 07 Jan 2018

Yes it is. We just need another word to describe it.

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Posted in Sum of the storm

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Superb meshing of concept and

Posted on Sun, 17 Sep 2017

Superb meshing of concept and execution. I love the insertion, so subtle, of the last thought before sleep.

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Posted in time travelling

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You've pulled it off really

Posted on Sat, 13 Jan 2018

You've pulled it off really well here. I stepped the other side of the fulcrum yesterday for that very reason. I love the plush thrumming curve. Altogether nicely done.

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Posted in finding peace

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