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I have 2142 stories published in 17 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 5402802 times and 671 of my stories have been cherry picked.
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Amazing Grace!

[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series] Grace, powerful, undeserved: the favour, gifts of God – though all we do he has observed, our every word has … He is the Gardener …
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January Skies

In January beautiful tracery of skeletal branches on clear skies cool blue cloudscapes near-sunset tinges – back-lighting glow.
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Sharing with the One who knows

[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series] We see the outer side, the smiling gaze, reports of purchases and holidays. Concerns may all be locked...
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Above Weobley

(26/01/24) Late afternoon low January sunshine bright glinting on the wet grass and squelchy mud, dazzling in the westward walk – so blundering in...
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'A bump of originality'*

… an unexpected twist, insertion, a catch in the rhythm a …
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1542 of my comments have received 1588 Great Feedback votes

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I think to leave memories in

Posted on Wed, 27 Jul 2022

I think to leave memories in the family of friends that are pleasant and even thankful is more important, One's name remembered with pleasure, at least for awhile. And to be in God's family, and that forever will be so much more wonderful too....

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Posted in Forget-Me-Not

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It's certainly a lovely area,

Posted on Sun, 24 Jul 2022

It's certainly a lovely area, especially out of the town on the Downs with the wind and views and sound of the crashing waves (I remember saying to my young sons once how I wished I could photograph the sound!), and even its own beach and the...

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Posted in The Artist of Swanage Downs

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Quite a picture of the cool

Posted on Fri, 22 Jul 2022

Quite a picture of the cool of the evening, with dust, and sound settling with the heat of the day. A strong memory. Rhiannon

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Posted in Bed and Board by The Silk Road

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The wind sounding vowels, and

Posted on Fri, 22 Jul 2022

The wind sounding vowels, and stones consonants! Interesting metaphor!

choices cedeed, monocrops seeded - deft phrasing!

We are commanded to be stewards in our world but to try to do good, not for greed.

and an...

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Posted in sound escape

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Even reading the term

Posted on Sat, 16 Jul 2022

Even reading the term 'woodland' brings a feeling of green shade, and a feeling of fresh air straying through it! Trees do seem to survive quite a waiting for rain, but then they can drink it up, and as you say it feeds their beauty. Is that...

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Posted in Silver Birch

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Seems a tragic parallelism

Posted on Fri, 15 Jul 2022

Seems a tragic parallelism between his mother's imaginative talking to the porcelain figurines, and his building up of 'castles in the air' and as you say, just desperately thinking he can start a new life, without attention to his own character...

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Posted in S T Vasectomy Clinic - 19

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It's good to hear from you

Posted on Fri, 15 Jul 2022

It's good to hear from you regularly, Jean. And your matter-of-fact approach, taking interest in all can be  a help to others.

A reminder too that we all have to live using and enjoying the time given, and blest to have an eye ahead. We...

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Posted in Chemo 3

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I hadn't thought of

Posted on Fri, 15 Jul 2022

I hadn't thought of waterfalls being uncommon in England, I suppose it is the kind of landscape. So many near here and in Wales. But this one looks quite unusual. The sound of waterfalls is very refreshing, and themore gentle burbling of rivers...

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Posted in St Audrey's Bay Waterfall

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How delightful! Such a lovely

Posted on Mon, 11 Jul 2022

How delightful! Such a lovely little bird, I'm always pleased when I notice it, and it is easy to identify with its small size and upright tail.

Going to our chapel at the end of the week I was remembering that before the little car park...

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Posted in Unexpected Guests

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I've been mulling over this

Posted on Fri, 08 Jul 2022

I've been mulling over this awhile since reading. Intriguing, you seemed to be teasing about possible supernatural and evil solutions, and then possibly negating them, but in the end leaving things quite open, all in a sort-of 'tongue-in-cheek'...

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Posted in The Miracle of Maldon (Part Three of Three)

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