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I have 2113 stories published in 17 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 5169843 times and 657 of my stories have been cherry picked.
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Moving to new areas!

Dandelion’s parachute lifts the seed to travel far; sticky goosegrass*, hooked barbs of burs cling to clothes and hairy furs; berries – food-wrapped...
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The ‘Miracle Fruit’* …

… contains ‘miraculin’, surprising molecule that binds to the sweet-detecting taste buds on the tongue, changing them so that for a while sour things...
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When it looks like defeat …

[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series] “I was dead, but now am alive evermore”. ‘He started out well, but his work is no more.’ Friends melted away...
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Interaction

Mums, Dads, turn your eyes from your phones as you talk or listen to your children – time flies – they need to see your expression to learn the cues...
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Graceful Uplifting

Like a chrysalis, bud breaks shoot bursts out like a butterfly, the leafllets slowly expand, open out like the butterfly’s creased-up wings, to form...
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1544 of my comments have received 1592 Great Feedback votes

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Would nake quite a startling

Posted on Sun, 29 Aug 2021

Would nake quite a startling picture. Take care of your plastics! My mother-in-law did enjoy her huge 3 balloons procured by the care home (a '1', a '0' and a '2'). One did nearly walk out of the doorway - they were attached to weights - but was...

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Posted in flotsam and jetsam

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A train passes so quickly

Posted on Mon, 30 Aug 2021

A train passes so quickly from the rusting iron to the sparkling river! Rhiannon

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Posted in Riding The Rails

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I think I followed you more

Posted on Mon, 30 Aug 2021

I think I followed you more easily than some of the others. I think my hearing finds it difficult to keep pace if reading is fairly fast. Mark started to put  links on, and I thought that could be useful, to be able to refer to the written...

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Posted in Chinese Whispers (edited and updated, 2021)

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I'm not sure I'm following

Posted on Sat, 28 Aug 2021

I'm not sure I'm following everything in you memories and runinations, Jenny, but it did like lots of phrases like

music cascading like willow tree surrendering leaves to sudden breeze

and

secrets uncovered...

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Posted in Curious Ambiance

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It is interesting that the

Posted on Fri, 27 Aug 2021

It is interesting that the choice seems to be between unitarianism and Catholicism, between a vague, lack of definition of God's nature and revelation, and ceremony keeping to strict beliefs, but extra to the gospel revelation. I think the latter...

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Posted in Maria and the Bellasis Family

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Oh, I;m so glad you enjoyed

Posted on Wed, 18 Aug 2021

Oh, I;m so glad you enjoyed this, and thanks for POD. Hope others enjoy it then too! Rhiannon

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Posted in Separating West from East

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Less rush when we are older,

Posted on Tue, 17 Aug 2021

Less rush when we are older, and time to watch the detail around us and recall the detail seen when venturing further! and this you encourage. Rhiannon

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Posted in It's A Wonderful Life

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You've shown fairly clearly

Posted on Fri, 13 Aug 2021

You've shown fairly clearly how many people can do a lot of good while being difficult in personal relationships, or being stubborn and foolish at times, so care needs to be taken in criticising not to make oneself out to be perfect, and not to...

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Posted in Maria's Diary 41 and Epilogue

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Such a busy ma!

Posted on Tue, 10 Aug 2021

Such a busy man!

I looked up that hymn, In the Cross of Christ I Glory , wondering why he was so strongly unitarian, though the mystery of the Trinity seems a bother to so many (how can we ever expect to fully comprehend the...

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Posted in Maria's Diary 40

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What an interesting memory!

Posted on Mon, 09 Aug 2021

What an interesting memory! and a shared one to remember together. Rhiannon

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Posted in Time’s Travel

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