Rhiannonw
Primary tabs
I have 2174 stories published in
17 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 5725482 times
and 684 of my stories have been cherry picked.
1552 of my 13,440 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 1601 votes
My stories
Reliable Big Brother
[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series] Brotherly love and sisterly care – something so precious, often so rare … Our Brother accepted the rod we were due so He ‘took the rap’ for me and for you …
- Read more about Reliable Big Brother
- 2 comments
- Log in to post comments
- 1134 reads
Fish Finger Maths!
10 fish fingers hot on the grill. Susie went to bed feeling rather ill, Tommy wanted 3 his empty tum to fill, Bertie asked for 2 – and a ½ – ‘Thanks...
- Read more about Fish Finger Maths!
- 13 comments
- Log in to post comments
- 3230 reads
Preparation
Cooler days dimmer light sap retracted, out of sight; recall of food from leaves (flesh shrunk – leaf stems sealed leaves wither, dehydrated...
- Read more about Preparation
- 8 comments
- Log in to post comments
- 2234 reads
Hindrances to Harvest
[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series] Time to sow, and time to reap – promised; but there’s need, we weep – war prevents and malice spoils...
- Read more about Hindrances to Harvest
- Log in to post comments
- 569 reads
Field Bindweed
Little pink and white soft striped trumpets ‘necklaces’ brightening up the verge like marsh-mallow treats dotted here and there smiling, skitteriing...
- Read more about Field Bindweed
- 16 comments
- Log in to post comments
- 3460 reads
Quirky bit of fun! Rhiannon
Posted on Mon, 04 Mar 2019
Quirky bit of fun! Rhiannon
Read full commentPosted in Conversation of a Tree
No, really, that's all very
Posted on Mon, 25 Feb 2019
No, really, that's all very interesting. The focussing on one thing not the general view I've noticed in other ways. I do think that being yourself and knowing you are concerned when someone is upset, is far better and appreciated than rushing...
Read full commentPosted in The Love of the Loveless (Chapter 2) (3)
Concerning the 'eye contact
Posted on Mon, 25 Feb 2019
Concerning the 'eye contact thing' you commented to Di about – Do you think part of the problem may be often the impression being given that it means longer eye-contact than is really right or necessary. I know it can be painful for those with...
Read full commentPosted in The Love of the Loveless (Chapter 2) (3)
Sobering and sad history. It
Posted on Tue, 26 Feb 2019
Sobering and sad history. It is useful sometimes to remember dictators and movements that seemed unconquerable and highly feared, and now are more or less forgotten.. Names come to mind even from my own lifetime.
Only One King will rule...
Read full commentPosted in Siege Of Leningrad
Aren't they difficult to
Posted on Sun, 24 Feb 2019
Aren't they difficult to remove? I once posted a little verse, with the other problem they lead to!
https://www.abctales.com/story/rhiannonw/little-irritants
...
Read full commentPosted in Pet Hate.
Very perceptive. I guess the
Posted on Thu, 21 Feb 2019
Very perceptive. I guess the bullies sadly are often really lonely insecure people, and making matters worse for themselves.
Only those who won’t fight back Are suitable as prey. and those who show they're hurt by it?
...
Read full commentPosted in Free From Fear
Thank you, Insert. I think it
Posted on Wed, 20 Feb 2019
Thank you, Insert. I think it is the young elms we see now, in hedgrows. I think the bark has to be a certain thickness for the beetle to get in and cause trouble, so there are a lot of fairly short elms around especially in hedges, certainly in...
Read full commentPosted in The fruit of the elm
I've been working on a poem
Posted on Sun, 17 Feb 2019
I've been working on a poem from the same idea, Graham, but not copying!
I was interested in your points at the end about causing offence by staring etc. Difficult for those struggling to understand social cues. I remember my son (whio had...
Read full commentPosted in Wot You Lookin' At?(The Eyes Have It)
All schoolkids like to belong
Posted on Wed, 13 Feb 2019
All schoolkids like to belong to some 'group', though maybe belonging to the group of 'ones that try not to be noticed and labelled' is not really a group except in the sense of grouping all the quiet individualists. Maybe some of them are...
Read full commentPosted in The Volunteers
The frustrations of life can
Posted on Mon, 11 Feb 2019
The frustrations of life can give a false picture of the past, but also a looking for a false kind of utopia, and missing what can be now, and the hope of better that can be.
Meanwhile inventions that have been and are beneficial will...
Read full commentPosted in driverless
Pages