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I have 2171 stories published in 17 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 5676014 times and 682 of my stories have been cherry picked.
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“The Fool says … ‘There is no God’”*

“The fool says in his heart, ‘There is no God’”.*[Psalm 14:1; 53:1] He cannot know, but must …
Cherry

Proactive

Poppies remind of the slain and those of us who remain remember the past when evil deeds were unseen and many had not believed why the nations had...
Cherry

Winter Refuges

Tiny folded leaves encased in tough scales … protected from the burning frost … waiting there to grow, unfold … And the bulbs are safe as well … hibernating like the tiny dormouse; chemistry on ‘slow’ ’til switched to ‘fast’ with …
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P-p-planning

Party planning, picking pals, piles of posting, phoning – purchasing plenty – pizzas, pittas, partly plain pâtés, pasties, pretty pastries, puddings...
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To see through the haze

[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series] Your thinking a haze as around you you gaze: Is life just a muddle of chance? With hatred and vice, and so much that's not nice, yet …

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1552 of my comments have received 1601 Great Feedback votes

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A hard letter! but you've got

Posted on Sat, 25 Dec 2021

A hard letter! but you've got some good and unusual ideas.

I hadn't written anything down before, but had been pondering and was about to! I had come to the conclusion it was about the rest (Zzz) between Christmas visits, and the second...

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Posted in Z is for Zing

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I suppose sometimes the logs

Posted on Thu, 23 Dec 2021

I suppose sometimes the logs were trees blown down in winter winds? We have a yew tree that started s a little self-seeding sapling, but has grown quite a big bush, and we now have to keep it from getting too big! Rhiannon

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Posted in Y is for Yule log and Yew

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Lovely picture, though bit of

Posted on Fri, 24 Dec 2021

Lovely picture, though bit of a shock to picture the mice. We once had one (a field mouse, it seemed)  come in and nibbled the kitchen soap. I kept the item for a while! And one once that ran through the folding futon each night, but didn't seem...

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Posted in That Christmas Feeling

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Clever ideas, neatly

Posted on Thu, 23 Dec 2021

Clever ideas, neatly expressed. Rhiannon

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Posted in X is for xxx

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Interesting. I'm sorry I didn

Posted on Wed, 22 Dec 2021

Interesting. I'm sorry I didn't see it before you changed it. I think you have caught the two uses of 'present'. You have to look for the hope beneath life's coverings somtimes, and with faith? Rhiannon

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Posted in W is for Wrapping Paper and Wind (another go at this)

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Quite a fun tale! We took on

Posted on Thu, 23 Dec 2021

Quite a fun tale! We took on a very simple bold '60s clock fom my parents' home, and in the end donated it to the new hall at chapel where they were needing something clear on the wall during children's games and clubs. It's still there about 10...

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Posted in Time (Clock of The Heart)

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Interesting about coats-of

Posted on Wed, 22 Dec 2021

Interesting about coats-of-arms, and places mentioned by Charles Dickens. And the jackdaw!

Do you know whether the slum areas around the church were changing at all by then when the church building was being renovated?.

I can...

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Posted in Maria and the Bellasis Family 18

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The beauty of happy music in

Posted on Mon, 20 Dec 2021

The beauty of happy music in both, but in the former words!

O Come, O Come, Emmanuel has wonderful words. I clicked on that link, and I think she sings the first verse in english and then moves to the latin. If you did want to...

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Posted in V is for Voices

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Provokes thought! I suppose

Posted on Tue, 21 Dec 2021

Provokes thought! I suppose like dwelling in thoughts, and regrets of the past won't help us be useful in the here and now, but the memories in themselves can prompt us and help us sometimes to be more thoughtful and careful of how we use our...

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Posted in If I Could Turn Back Time

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Thank you. I hope you have a

Posted on Mon, 20 Dec 2021

Thank you. I hope you have a good and happy time, too. And thank you for the cherries and appreciation. I hoped it would give a bit of interesting light relief! Rhiannon

and thank you very much for all your hard work and encouragement to...

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