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Beautiful poem, you express

Posted on Sat, 21 Apr 2018

Beautiful poem, you express so well the seeming fragility of Spring but also how it's actually very strong, as it has overcome the darkness of Winter, just as the flames of your dreams overcome dark times. It makes me think of those ink paintings...

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Posted in My Dreams are Safe (IP)

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hm, not if you can't see the

Posted on Sat, 07 Apr 2018

hm, not if you're short sighted like me :0) It's like a miniature metaphor for the miracle of life, the twentieth attempt the thread goes through and you're off. Before that it gets fuzzier and cut off and bent and huffed and puffed at and...

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Posted in On sewing buttons

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I love this, it's so gentle

Posted on Sat, 07 Apr 2018

I love this, it's so gentle :0) I'm not technical, so always feel very pleased that I've managed to fix something, when I sew on a button. Equally, I worry that I don't understand writing often. Your idea of joining the two together is lovely. I...

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Posted in On sewing buttons

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yes, I would. There was an

Posted on Thu, 29 Mar 2018

yes, I would. There was an interesting interview on the World Service a while ago, with someone who had written about his experiences doing his compulsory national service in Israel. He spoke about how it felt to be called a traitor by his own...

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Posted in End Islamophobia (In the Blairite Party)

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Really enjoyed this. My

Posted on Sun, 25 Mar 2018

Really enjoyed this. My partner is doing OU in computing and we joke it is his magic books being delivered by the postman.

Particularly liked "Summon a Magician! I appear, sometime just after a puff of smoke actually.“

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Posted in Mechanics & Artists

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I like this one.  

Posted on Sat, 24 Mar 2018

I like this one.

 

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Posted in Beyond the Day

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I sympathise with the

Posted on Mon, 19 Mar 2018

I sympathise with the narrator - you have so well described how stressful it is for children to keep foxes out of hen runs. Always straining your ears incase you miss their terrified clucking cackle, even when you are asleep.

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Posted in The Lad from Pointe de Bute (Chapters 13-14)

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Maybe it's because we are

Posted on Wed, 14 Mar 2018

Maybe it's because we are tool makers that we look for purpose in everything we come across, even life. But "pure experience of being" as you say, unsullied with being chipped into a more useful shape, that's what animals have, presumeably that's...

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Posted in So long

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Enjoyed this richly packed

Posted on Tue, 13 Mar 2018

Enjoyed this richly packed account, haiku like fitting a wardrobe of clothes into a brief case. Particularly liked the botanic garden in the storm, and patatas bravas in Burger King

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Posted in Coimbra Haiku

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I like this appreciation of

Posted on Thu, 01 Mar 2018

I like this appreciation of the uncomplicated but intense feelings of dogs.

Also sympathise with not being able to upload pictures. My partner is doing an OU computing degree but I dread asking for help because of the sighs :0)

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Posted in They all rolled over

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