Philip Sidney
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I have 164 stories published in
5 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 331973 times
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Illicit Exercise
I’ve taken to running around the field behind my house - you might not call it running - but there is an element of privacy the field affords which...
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Pooky gets a Break
Needless to say, the old Bingo game was not all it was cracked up to be. Phil was not a man made for work. Yes, he could turn up, schmooze, regale an...
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Pooky and The Philanderer
Glad was a bingo fiend, that’s why she was on the coach tour in the first place, but she’d been in Pretty Pigs, Scarborough’s third worst hotel, for...
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Trees on the Arapuni Road
When they felled the high trees mother was delighted she lived in fear of their imminent collapse onto our matchbox house despite their wounds they...
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Talking to My Mother
Talking to my mother is easier now she is dead - she’d put me into orbit but I was more of a spin-off - not an asteroid or meteorite on a trajectory...
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Is there anything more
Posted on Mon, 09 Mar 2020
Is there anything more wonderful than the earth? As rich and as complex as the finest compost - this is our facebook and twitter pick of the day - do share it!
Read full commentPosted in Ode to Compost
I found this blissful piece
Posted on Sun, 12 Sep 2004
I found this blissful piece of loveliness as I was rummaging through the archives - I hope you like it too - so share if you do - because it's our facebook and twitter pick of the day!
Read full commentPosted in Winter Dreams
I'm so sorry for your loss,
Posted on Mon, 01 May 2017
I'm so sorry for your loss, what an amazing life your father had. Thank you so much for sharing some of his story with us. Xx
Read full commentPosted in Shlamek
I like the way time seems to
Posted on Tue, 19 Jan 2016
I like the way time seems to slow down to hold the moment, like a segment of slow motion at the centre of fast motion film. Beautiful language.
Read full commentPosted in All change
Wish I could remember back
Posted on Thu, 02 Jul 2015
Wish I could remember back this far, I sometimes thik I can recall moments from being a baby, I guess it's all lurking there somewhere. Really interesting perspective.
Read full commentPosted in First Day First Memory
So closely and precisely
Posted on Wed, 14 Jan 2015
So closely and precisely observed. A childhood summer preserved in amber - beautiful and moving.
Read full commentPosted in The Mechanic
The small details of the
Posted on Fri, 21 Nov 2014
The small details of the mundane show how momentus the last contact is, all is preserved, impossible to resolve. I like the ideas of soaking up your mother as yourself. When we lose our mothers we lose some of ourself.
Read full commentPosted in My Mother Myself
There's a sense of gentle
Posted on Wed, 16 Sep 2020
There's a sense of gentle retreat here which is in turns comforting and unsettling.
Read full commentPosted in In Quiet Moments
Such a beautiful and moving
Posted on Tue, 25 Aug 2020
Such a beautiful and moving piece.
Read full commentPosted in Salamander
This is wonderful!
Posted on Mon, 17 Aug 2020
This is wonderful!
Read full commentPosted in Thinking Out Loud
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