Inspiration point (IP)

Today is the 100th birthday of naturalist Sir David Attenborough, himself a wonder of nature and one of our very, very few genuine national treasures. So this week, please write about an animal (or many animals, if you prefer!) Animals you love, or hate, or that give you the horrors, or that you once fleetingly glimpsed in passing. I look forward to seeing the results! 

Inspiration point

Cherry

Fifteen.

At fifteen I knew what I liked and didn’t like. I knew what foods I liked and what foods I didn’t like. I knew what pop stars I like and didn’t like...
Gold cherry

Pengwndwn*

From about age 7 to 14 we had a family holiday many Augusts, a fortnight in a little cottage (called Pengwndwn*) up a little overgrown lane from its...
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Cherry

At Winter's Darkest Hour

Elemental deeds in Winter, see how luscious green slips away; behold! Sun sinking low, intense gleam weakened. Blown are the desires of summer, do...

Two Photographs, 30 years apart…

A photograph: bright young thing – twenty-something glamorous, flirtatious, vivacious, self-centred. _______ Another photograph: thirty years later...
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Cherry

Daffodils

There I am again, running through the field picking daffodils. I never change. Well, no, this part of me changes. This part of me has those sixty-odd...

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