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621 of my comments have received 648 Great Feedback votes

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Hello Jenny.

Posted on Tue, 16 Nov 2021

Hello Jenny.

I particularly liked your words:

the grand scheme of folklore...where nature has mutual respect.

Forests, especially oak forests, are magical places but once the thoughts of folklore join us on a walk in...

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It's sad to know that your

Posted on Wed, 10 Nov 2021

It's sad to know that your family has needed to use care homes but I'm pleased to hear that you have some good positive things to say about them. There are a few terrible places which get in the news and it leads to the good ones being tarred...

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Long long ago when I was a

Posted on Wed, 10 Nov 2021

Long long ago when I was a working man, many of my clients were care home residents, usually suffering from dementia. Some seemed happy and many more seemed quite unhappy but whatever the case their families (if they bothered to visit them at all...

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Hello Rhiannon.

Posted on Tue, 09 Nov 2021

Hello Rhiannon.

I've sometimes been told by those who knew my Grandad better that even if I had asked the questions I probably wouldn't have got answers. Apparently he would never talk about his time in France during World War One. He went...

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You might know some other

Posted on Tue, 09 Nov 2021

You might know some other places from my past, the York chapter of which revolves around Heworth. My grandparents lived in Dodsworth Avenue, just the other side of Heworth Green from the Shoulder of Mutton, which I have just discovered is now...

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Hello Paul.

Posted on Tue, 09 Nov 2021

Hello Paul.

We were never allowed to eat Cadbury's chocolate. We were told we'd be selling our souls to the devil if we did. However, everyone's a fruit and nutcase!

Childhood memories are precious and I love it when snippets of...

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Posted in Chocolate, Tobacco and Horse Muck

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As a long suffering victim of

Posted on Mon, 08 Nov 2021

As a long suffering victim of the after effects of anaglypta, I particularly liked your line ...

a dominant, assertive tone that could tear anaglypta from ceilings.

And your characters seemed so lifelike. They may be...

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This is very good reading. A

Posted on Thu, 04 Nov 2021

This is very good reading. A simplification of the complex mess that humanity has got itself into today. One day the buildings will get so tall that they fall over completely and then we will all have to start again from the beginning. We will...

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I enjoyed your poem Jenny.

Posted on Mon, 08 Nov 2021

I enjoyed your poem Jenny.

Your lines ...

Of course pavements have their own mystery,

I wonder! What tales they could tell of footsteps

taken and conversations passing.

really caught...

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Excellent words that could be

Posted on Mon, 01 Nov 2021

Excellent words that could be describing the sad plight of any of hundreds of small towns in the North of England or the former industrial bits of Britain.

I have nothing against horses but your line 'there was even a place to turn horses...

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