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The Silent Witness

As many of you already know, my daughter Julia (who wrote as Overthetop1 on Abc) died suddenly in May whilst on a short unescorted outing from a Mental Health Unit. She was due to move into a care facility in the community very soon, and as yet the cause of her death is still unknown. She had been to a cafe near the hospital for a sandwich, and the cafe owner, seeing how unwell she was, followed her out. Unfortunately Julia never made it back to the ward. Later the cafe owner told her sister and I what happened before we got to the hospital. Coral Jane
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Yellow for my daughter

An edit of an old piece I want to re-post in memory of my daughter Julia Jane Macpherson who died suddenly May 18th. She also wrote on this site as Overthetop1. Coral Jane
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Poem of the week

THE ONE IN THE NEST

Nursery rhyme: "one flies east, one flies west, and one flew over the cuckoo's nest"
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Leaving

with a little help from my friends, John & Paul of course. Wednesday morning at five o'clock as the day begins - Lennon/McCartney
Poem of the week

The sadness of tulips

a bit late for Spring, or perhaps not

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72 of my comments have received 74 Great Feedback votes

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I'm still trying to work out

Posted on Wed, 05 Jun 2024

I'm still trying to work out the link between riding a bike everywhere and being a vegetarian. I'd put in an emoji here but Samsung tablet won't let me.

Worrying that's why my podiatrist isn't doing too well with my ingrown toenails...do...

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Posted in The Spice of Life

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Brilliant! So much I can

Posted on Thu, 30 May 2024

Brilliant! So much I can relate to in this, especially the food (I don't remember being fed anything other than offal and porridge by my mother - there's a short piece about that on Abc somewhere). The other thing was the English Lit O-level...

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Posted in Bill or Bob?

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Thank you for alerting me to

Posted on Sun, 19 May 2024

Thank you for alerting me to this Terry. Now I know you better, reading snippets from your childhood fascinate me. The very mention of nuns sends shivers down my spine as in my early 20s I was sent to a convalescent home run by these terrifying...

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Posted in This Sort of Thing - The Childhood Stage

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Beautiful words. One of

Posted on Tue, 23 Apr 2024

Beautiful words. One of those poems I wish I had written.

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Posted in Doubt

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Reminds me of Julia or Sarah

Posted on Thu, 02 May 2024

Reminds me of Julia or Sarah - maybe both. Julia had the vinyl copy for sure. Bowie and wife 1 lived a street away from where Sarah lives now.

Those were the days pre the advanced technology we struggle with in the 21st century.

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Posted in Turn and Face the Strange

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Well done Golden Boy. Much

Posted on Tue, 09 Apr 2024

Well done Golden Boy. Much enjoyed.
I wonder how long storks survive and what happened to the one who delivered me to my unwilling mother?
Its ghostly presence haunts me still.

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Posted in This Sort of Thing - March 2024 - La finale

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A little beauty of a poem.

Posted on Fri, 16 Feb 2024

A little beauty of a poem.

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Posted in Our Soil

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Ah, thanks so much for the congrats insert

Posted on Sat, 17 Feb 2024

I came close to deleting this but glad I didn't. Might just rest on my cherries - I mean laurels - for a bit. This took a few weeks and several drafts, but it's good to be creative again...

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Posted in Killing the killers

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Thank you marandina. The idea

Posted on Sat, 17 Feb 2024

Thank you marandina. The idea originally came from my other daughter (a psychologist) - a technique she used during her own grief. I forgot about it until another wave hit me hard - so with the encouragement of a good friend (who knew my...

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Posted in Killing the killers

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This particular sort of thing...

Posted on Thu, 08 Feb 2024

...is very much my sort of thing Terry.
I knew you wouldn't stay away from Abc for long.
I remember a time (probably about 10 years ago) when I was totally addicted.
So much has happened in the intervening years (mostly not good...

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Posted in This Sort of Thing - January 2024 - Main Course

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