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!
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Welsh/English Waters Mix

Forecast: heavy precipitation across Wales and the midlands: [of cats and dogs and old ladies and sticks …]
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The potato eater
I know. There comes a time that I will be called away from this meadow. Like geese hearing the whisperings of the Autumn. fishermen listening to the...
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Up to Here with the Weather...

He can’t abide me smoking in the flat; that’s why I’m out here, on the roof, on this drizzly afternoon...
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A Piece of Winter
A lump of coal, taken from the fire at midnight, soaked in the blood of one unjustly killed. Sea-salt; star-iron; three petals of moonsbreath, a...
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