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I have 1996 stories published in 16 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 3688236 times and 612 of my stories have been cherry picked.
1453 of my 12,882 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 1495 votes

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Observing

Look through any window of the train … passing … glimpse of lives, then all their faces gone.
Gold cherry

Wild Rose …

pink blush of beauty climbing the hedges … fragile, fleeting ….

Light to the Bleakness 2. of series based on old carols

[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series].[2.based on the carol, ‘In the bleak mid-winter’ by Christina Rossetti] In the bleak mid-winter all is cold, troubles biting, bitter – Love foretold God is coming bringing light...
Cherry

Dog’s Mercury

Emerging through the littered leaves of the woodland floor …

Emmanuel (= God with us) 1. of series based on old carols

[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series] [1, based on the carol 'O come, O come, Emmanuel'] O come, O come, Emmanuel, all people need good news – Noël* to give life purpose … Rejoice, Emmanuel has come – the Light to shine for everyone.…

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1453 of my comments have received 1495 Great Feedback votes

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It's lovely what you took in

Posted on Sat, 07 Mar 2015

It's lovely what you took in in your micro-glance, refreshing you for the rest of your journey. Rhiannon

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Posted in The A1 Crosses the River Swale

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 A lot to think about there,

Posted on Sat, 21 Feb 2015

 A lot to think about there, and well written of course. How difficult to live with great skill, humbly and kindly. Rhiannon

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Posted in "All the World's a Stage"

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I can only say, how

Posted on Mon, 09 Feb 2015

I can only say, how compassionate and caring the staff are where my father-in-law is. (and it is just a basic nursing home, largely council funded, they have recently introduced a very minimal top-up and of course there is always means testing)....

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Posted in Room Six - Tooting Bec Asylum...1982

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I really liked the way you

Posted on Tue, 03 Feb 2015

I really liked the way you slipped in the descriptions of the garden eg ' the smell of pine as refreshing as a bucket of snow, needles crunching underfoot.' That whole paragraph seems to have so much vivid description just tucked in...

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Posted in uncorrected proof two.

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Horrible, Bee. Getting

Posted on Wed, 28 Jan 2015

Horrible, Bee. Getting callous like this to animal suffering, must so easily lead to callousness to human suffering too. Rhiannon

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Posted in Giving Them a VOICE

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A lot of concentrated vivid

Posted on Sun, 25 Jan 2015

A lot of concentrated vivid images here, and memories, and the contrast of attitudes to danger and hurts. Specially liked the first verse, and the lines about the moss. Rhiannon

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Posted in Earth Heart (3)

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Interesting cameo of bright

Posted on Fri, 16 Jan 2015

Interesting cameo of bright memories, a bit like Jolono's recent 'Under a London Sky' memories of the beginning of a courtship. I liked ''Occasion marked: Us and 'Coat-hanger tourists' too. The Brolga Dance certainly sounded...

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Posted in Brolga Dance

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Your collection of images in

Posted on Tue, 13 Jan 2015

Your collection of images in the early part of this is breathtaking as usual, and displays your noticing eye and clarity of putting the images into words succinctly for others.

– but poetry can be about all sorts of things, the pleasant,...

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Posted in Ars Poetica

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… but as you said, it is the

Posted on Sat, 03 Jan 2015

… but as you said, it is the space between that is full of good memories. Here the beginning, so beautifully described, and such pleasure, and seen now as the beginning of a full life, despite all the hardships, and the agony of parting. Rhiannon

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Posted in Epiphany

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I hadn't really realised the

Posted on Thu, 01 Jan 2015

I hadn't really realised the length of time involved from the  beginning of the trouble, or how much was done at each stage of better health. This fills in so much of  'the spaces between' all along the way, the very hard spaces, and the happier...

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Posted in The Story of One Remarkable Lady

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