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I have 2186 stories published in 17 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 5798312 times and 691 of my stories have been cherry picked.
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Not just the specks in their eyes*

[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series] Easy to criticize and dig up ancient dirt, enjoy exposing lies, and actions that have hurt, with motive to...

In the summer heat

It’s hotter in Bulgaria, it’s cooler at the Pole. It’s winter in Australia, so really, on the whole our climate’s not extreme. But yet in height of summer heat tempers get frayed and …
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The wonder and responsibility of speech

The idols are silent – God speaks… We’re made so we language can use… the ‘Why’ of the universe, and can chat so our friends understand!

Up Periscope!

Smiling wide it peeped over the wall …
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Cherry

Garden bindweed, again

Insidiously quickly it binds, spirallingly winds entangling. strangling, entwining around grasping support from the stronger stems; poking through,...
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1557 of my comments have received 1608 Great Feedback votes

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Oh, Hilary this is so sad,

Posted on Thu, 15 Dec 2022

Oh, Hilary this is so sad, and of course unresolved. There can be so much ceremony that has nothing really to do with 'giving the heart' as you mentioned in the carol, and being filled with the love of God and loving his righteousness. It can...

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Posted in A Christmas Carol : Conclusion

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Lovely. Braving such

Posted on Wed, 14 Dec 2022

Lovely. Braving such temperatures, or benefiting from the film-makers that do, what beauty, but also, everything waiting for return of warmth. Rhiannon

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Posted in Mid-Winter

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from blackbird’s mellifluous

Posted on Fri, 09 Dec 2022

from blackbird’s mellifluous dawn to a nightjar’s vespers. gave a lovely insight into noticing what can be heard and seen to try to keep as refreshed as possible from the surroundings . and the last stanza showing a noticing in walking...

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Posted in Frontline

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Must have been really

Posted on Mon, 12 Dec 2022

Must have been really pleasant to be able to walk out and see the snow-clad hills, all lookinng so different. And I felt the sleepy warmth after the sharp clear frosty air, making you/me drowsy! Rhiannon

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Posted in Walk In December Snow

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Well written to hold the

Posted on Fri, 09 Dec 2022

Well written to hold the reader as usual. An amusing device to ponder the question what would her husband have wanted for her after his death. Rhiannon

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Posted in The Last Wish of Christmas

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This is some lovely

Posted on Thu, 08 Dec 2022

This is some lovely imaginations! Especially like the 'tickling by insects', connecting the dreamy imaginations with very down-to-earth feelings! It reminded my of the fungal 'wood-wide-web' (WWW!) that seems to connect the trees of the wood, but...

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Posted in Would I Be A Tree

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'sigh of thaw' seems a good

Posted on Wed, 07 Dec 2022

'sigh of thaw' seems a good description.. Thick hoar-frost on trees can be very beautiful, and the red berries are appreciated by our eyes when little else of colour, as well as food for the birds! Rhiannon

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Posted in Winter's Grip

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It must have been nice to

Posted on Tue, 06 Dec 2022

It must have been nice to feel more 'at home' eventually and be able to put down roots and be a part of it.

I suppose with a definite accent, it will always display my history of upbringing a bit! Around border land where we now live, the...

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Posted in Your accent tells …

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Been wondering how you were

Posted on Fri, 02 Dec 2022

Been wondering how you were getting on. It must help in all that waiting and potential stress to take an interest in the people you see, and a bit of listening in stops it being all imagination! And you can pray for them too. love and hugs and...

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Posted in chemo 16

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Cleverly put. Though shame

Posted on Tue, 29 Nov 2022

Cleverly put. Though shame faced can seek grace, and then revives still humble and apologetic, but with what colour in the heart and step?! Rhiannon

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Posted in Feeling Blue (words once said)

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