Rhiannonw

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I have 2007 stories published in 16 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 3948606 times and 619 of my stories have been cherry picked.
1464 of my 12,913 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 1506 votes

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Cherry

Designed to catch water

The desert beetle has hydrophilic bumps upon its back. Standing on the sand ridge facing the wind if lifts its back up and droplets of water condense...
Gold cherry

Little boy ponders …

“When our cat’s away, where does he go? what does he do? … – who knows?!”
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on Psalm 100

[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series] O, shout out for joy, acknowledge the Lord, and hail him who is, praise with gladness restored. The mighty...
Cherry

Immersed in barley!

Sometimes a crop the farmer sows, then clears a line where the footpath goes across his field. Sometimes he leaves the crop to grow and thinks the walkers all will go across and trample down that bit, and so others the footpath’s track will know …
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Cherry

Undisentanglable!

Been having shopping delivery for a few years due to Covid and personal health issues. Works well most of the time, but last week the pies I’d...

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1464 of my comments have received 1506 Great Feedback votes

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Intriguing memories! I

Posted on Mon, 28 Apr 2025

Intriguing memories! I

t's amazing the imaginative worlds childhood can create and are satisfying and relaxing. I have two young granddaughters at the moment and the elder, a young but very avid reader leads the play with very complex '...

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Posted in Dobe Island; My Place in the Sun

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A lovely description of an

Posted on Tue, 18 Feb 2025

A lovely description of an early morning glimpse. And then the transition to the solidity of the cows, but also very special. Many town children haven't seen a cow. When you first meet them they do seem very big!...

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Posted in Cows - lost, refound, tinkered with.

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Thought-provoking.

Posted on Thu, 09 Jan 2025

Thought-provoking.

I know my husband found the idea difficult of losing privacy of mind when we got married. His family were very reticent, and mine were bubbly and open. But I think we had an ability to be open while yet maintaining...

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Posted in Sonnet in Silence

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Yes. It came to mind last

Posted on Wed, 01 Jan 2025

Yes. It came to mind last night as the wind blew so strongly. I knew I'd heard the phrase when young, but couldn't remember the context. I've just been looking it up and it is from a poem by Minnie Louise Haskins’ on “the gate of the year”but...

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Posted in January 1

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A lovely scene, shorn sheep

Posted on Sun, 18 Aug 2024

A lovely scene, shorn sheep and swan family.

So graceful and maajestic as they glide along, like a royal barge expecting cheers from the bank!

To approach would worry them that they were going to be attacked, or their cygnets or...

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Posted in Caught In Charm Of What I See

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One of my grandsons would eat

Posted on Thu, 08 Aug 2024

One of my grandsons would eat little except pasta for years, but he's better now, though still liking much pasta. I think just seeing other children eat other things gradually helped and maybe cooking for himself. It seemed a 'texture' phobia a...

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Posted in Foods that make me feel sick.

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But the stems are worthy to

Posted on Thu, 27 Jun 2024

But the stems are worthy to hold up those flowers, and not take the praise from them! I like the 'octave' of scents and 'scale' of  colours. In the spring as we drive around I love the vista of so many different shades of green, many so fresh...

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Posted in This Rose Garden

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A lot here to weed out,

Posted on Fri, 29 Mar 2024

A lot here to weed out, Dougie! From men trying to make money out of religious title and losing the meaning of the offer, and fighting to try to force (cf Matthew 26:53 etc) their rule and religion (the offer of true purchased salavation being so...

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Posted in Jesus was a Rebel

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Fascinating! My sister and

Posted on Thu, 28 Dec 2023

Fascinating! My sister and her husband are both academic linguists. We stayed at a work flat of his once and the walls were lined with books of different languages. He specialised on the learning of foreign languages. She worked, and still does...

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Posted in Lingo Bingo

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Thank you. Where sight and

Posted on Mon, 21 Aug 2023

Thank you. Where sight and hearing are limited, the sense of touch is satisfying and 'grounding' to reality, and the comfort of 'where I am'. And the stroking, and gentle hugging mean a lot. It's not always easy to get the mean between being...

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