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Two Contests

By Rhiannonw on Sun, 24 Jul 2022

[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series] In place of armies’ warring slaughter, each should choose one man to fight, theirs was nine feet tall, in...

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Any Hard Task

By Rhiannonw on Tue, 19 Jul 2022

It was still an up-hill pull with determined will to fully fulfil the task undertaken and reach the top not stop or flop or trip or slip or sleep,...

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Scorning the warning

By Rhiannonw on Sun, 17 Jul 2022

‘Put Micaiah in the prison.’ (For his warning Ahab spurned.) ‘Give him only bread and water, until safely I’ve returned.’ …

The Age of Discovery

By Rhiannonw on Fri, 15 Jul 2022

From new-born breath ’til still of death: Hearing sounds and conversation, gazing round in exploration … mouth contortions … life-long, look and think …

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I don't know about swimming

Posted on Sun, 13 Mar 2022

I don't know about swimming with whale sharks, but that snorkelling trip sounds wonderful, and such a lovely description! Rhiannon

Posted in Coral Bay

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I remember my husband's uncle

Posted on Thu, 10 Mar 2022

I remember my husband's uncle ostentaeously offernig me to choose something from his mother's jewellery after the funeral. I had never liked or been attracted to jewels, preferring plain things made of slate or copper, or flowers I think. He was...

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Would have been lovely to see

Posted on Wed, 09 Mar 2022

Would have been lovely to see her needlework! I suspect she would be very careful and quite a perfectionist especially as she was meeting with the specialists.

Somehow those weddings seem to have the money to take the opulance in their...

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I felt that I could feel the

Posted on Tue, 08 Mar 2022

I felt that I could feel the vigorous battering and sharp temperatures freshening my face and pushing me along with you! I liked the reference to 'vacant high ground' , and the hillforts up there.. I wasn't sure of the meaning of the last two...

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Large and complex family,

Posted on Wed, 02 Mar 2022

Large and complex family, especially by her age. I suppose in meeting so many that one hasn't met before or for a long time at a wedding, and if she has a willingness to listen and try to understand, there will be so many complex and distressing...

Posted in Maria and the Bellasis Family 26

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the use of consonant

Posted on Thu, 03 Mar 2022

the use of consonant alliteration makes the scene more vivid eg denim dampened,, Blinking bikelamps, Swishing spray, and Gutters gleam with streetlit rain where the near-rhyme helps too. Rhiannon

Posted in Night Cycling, November

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Vivid memories to enjoy and

Posted on Sun, 27 Feb 2022

Vivid memories to enjoy and share. Rhiannon (I hadn't heard of the hotento fig, but looked it up!)

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An interesting vignette of

Posted on Wed, 23 Feb 2022

An interesting vignette of the time again. Rhiannon

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And then the quiet of home …!

Posted on Tue, 22 Feb 2022

And then the quiet of home …! Very descriptive of being out in the wild winds. We hear of them more in Scotland than down south, don't we? Rhiannon

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You have a very smooth

Posted on Fri, 18 Feb 2022

You have a very smooth narrative telling flow, and ease of description. When I first read, I did wonderif it was partly autobiographical, but something didn't seem quite so, but it must have been quite a challenge to try to imagine the feelings...