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I have 2160 stories published in 17 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 5564518 times and 678 of my stories have been cherry picked.
1548 of my 13,388 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 1597 votes

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Exquisite Leaf-mulch art

A dropped twig, beautifully clothed … moss-feathers lightening up another patch!
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Incarnation - prepared for, and consequences

G od … h uman … I saiah … J oseph … K ing … L ydia
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Emerging treasures

Buried seeds bring fields of poppies, wheat, potatoes – which rebound, yielding fields of buried treasure in the autumn, underground! ************...
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Alas! Alas!

Alas! alas! why build your billets for bullets and missiles mixed with medics and mosques mingling …

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1548 of my comments have received 1597 Great Feedback votes

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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

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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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Posted in Junk Jewellery

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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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Posted in Maria and the Bellasis Family 27

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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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Posted in Up On The Ridgeway

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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...

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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

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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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Posted in Brief Moments To Imagine

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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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Posted in Maria and the Bellasis Family 25

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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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Posted in Blustery Day In Town

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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...

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Posted in The Star-Crossed Swans of Newport Pagnell

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