Cherrypicked stories
A Bookshop in Aberystwyth
It was in my drinking days, hungover at the seaside, Butty Bach after Butty Bach, bringing up all my usual drunken topics, people on their phones in...
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Le Merle Noir
In ‘Bird by Bird’, Anne Lamott mentions someone called Wallace Stevens. I had to Google in order to get the joke. He was a poet who worked in...
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A Trip through Old Florida
Babcock Ranch Excursion We set out from Estero at 10:30 A.M. and followed Rte. # 75 north. We exited onto Bayshore Rd., following it east to Rte. #31...
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Lookit!
At fifteen, I saw, far away, through the lens of naivety, what I believed was a pair of stars. A discovery that would make me the toast of the...
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Capricious Satnav
We set out our route on the satnav to travel home next day from north-coast Pembrokeshire, an easterly wriggly way. Next morning as we drove along...
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This Sort of Thing - April 2024 - The Gametophyte Stage
Words to tell you what to do. Words as strong as Irn Bru.
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The Nature of Feelings
The grass was still glistening with dew in the walled garden. I was early. It’s a Boomer thing. Plus, you must allow for stuck-behind-a-tractor...
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Informed Rituals
I should have known from the psychedelic colours in the gorse that a migraine was coming. I haven’t had a migraine in years, so didn’t twig. I...
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A Kodak Moment
History as a Kodak Moment I was leafing through a volume of historical photos, published by the Buffalo News. They were snapshots of Buffalo, N.Y...
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It Could Have Been Me
After Pam Ayres's "I Wish I'd Looked After My Teeth". It is a parody I wrote in 2008 that I hope reflects the jocularity and fun of the original piece - Image from Pixabay
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How inscrutable his ways
The first surprise is that the funeral is being held in the Holy Trinity Church. Honestly, I didn’t take Nathan for a churchgoer. Off course, I got...
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We Are Where We Are, and All is Well
Today was a blue-green yellow day. The north wind whipped itself back to Svalbard and had left us in deep hush. I have a favourite writing exercise;...
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The Old Wooden House On The Hill
The Old Wooden House On The Hill By Paul McCann We told stories then as wee children They were frightening and enlightening, Don’t tell your Mother...
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Elastic Band
He told her he’d be a millionaire when he retired. ‘I can have £200,000 one year, £50,000 the next, if I want , ’ he said pressing the button for the...
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Parcel for you.. Part 25
‘Oh, we might have to try and scrub that off,’ ‘Why Mum? It suits him, don’t you think it suits him?’ Vanessa stared at her daughter, she was always...
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I Heard It Though The Grapevine (Dead Reckoning series - Part 8)
In which both Samantha and Josiah exchange news that neither wants to hear, and Archibald keeps the score!
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Shores ever changing, new, fresh
… every visit seems quite new, heart, mind, senses refreshed.
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New Directions (20)
When I arrived home Karen’s car was in the drive. I squeezed mine in behind it. The dashboard clock said 17:17. The driver door opened and Karen...
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Does Not Play Well with Others
The Vinery is a community hub, based in the refurbished Victorian vinery (slanted glasshouse) previously part of the Duff House walled garden. The...
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Lima (before or after the jungle) - addendum/throwback
The clock has stopped dead and it is as if a crack has been prised open and quick-dry concrete poured in . Now the sky is stuck, the earth static and...
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