Rhiannonw

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I have 2140 stories published in 17 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 5390750 times and 670 of my stories have been cherry picked.
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Woodpecker’s shock-absorbers

By Rhiannonw on Thu, 28 Jun 2012

Hammering rapidly: force on its head that is greater than 1000 g*. (If banged at just 300g, we’d be concussed, or our brains would be messed.) Specialised structure of bones and tendons,
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The Elephant’s Trunk

By Rhiannonw on Wed, 27 Jun 2012

40,000 muscles in a powerful limb that can branches rip, pick a single pin, with its mobile tip, yet can dig for moisture, without skin’s rupture. It’s a long sucking nose
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Looking after Jimmy, next door

By Rhiannonw on Mon, 25 Jun 2012

… Two young girls felt quite assured – of course little Jimmy would be good!… [An early lesson in child management]
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Walking on the Dyke, above Knighton

By Rhiannonw on Sat, 23 Jun 2012

Propitious weather window, favourable circumstances allow a few hours for a walk: stiff climb to the ridge, valley far below, narrow meandering ribbon-river, two-coach tiny train,
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Garden Bindweed

By Rhiannonw on Tue, 19 Jun 2012

It winds, and binds, entangling, and strangling … insidiously, inconspicuously …
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