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I have 179 stories published in 2 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 507920 times and 283 of my stories have been cherry picked.
1793 of my 5,591 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 1843 votes

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"brought these walls and

Posted on Wed, 11 Sep 2019

"brought these walls and lawns within reach"

"The front gardens are overgrown or shingled now"

 do you remember when front gardens were rich with flowers,full of the gardener's heart and soul? Now people concrete or some other hard...

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Posted in What happened?

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Loved this :0) The bits about

Posted on Mon, 09 Sep 2019

Loved this :0) The bits about gender stereotyping running through were my favourite, but all of it I was smiling. It is a relief your Mum thought Ken Clarke OK. It always bothers  me a bit that I understand his point of view even if not agreeing...

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Posted in Pad Life 6: The Elephant In The Room

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Like Jenny and Rhiannon, I

Posted on Sat, 07 Sep 2019

Like Jenny and Rhiannon, I love the rhythm you have here, much too fast for the breath of walking, wheels spinning, gliding through all your encounters and thoughts. It is the movement that has brought the change, of friendly human contact on...

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Posted in Riverine reflection

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So glad you are writing again

Posted on Sun, 01 Sep 2019

So glad you are writing again! I have missed your rich thoughts that I have to read ten or more times and still feel there is more.

The gulping sea eternal, my cradle

We watched you ride her curling lips

 

The light...

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Posted in Echoes of a Dead Whale

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Well put Luigi! It is so

Posted on Sun, 01 Sep 2019

Well put Luigi! It is so frustrating listening to the news, and so many important world leaders refusing to do anything to slow climate change, infact wanting to dig in their heals like stroppy children and do the opposite, even though their own...

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Posted in The Time Capsule

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yes! though yesterday, on the

Posted on Thu, 29 Aug 2019

yes! though yesterday, on the kitchen windowsill, my son noticed a VERY  round baby sparrow, just standing there. As we watched , it closed its eyes and started swaying, and I was so worried it was ill! Then suddenly it hiccupped, and out popped...

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Posted in With Obsidian Eyes

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wow this is so sensuous! It

Posted on Sat, 24 Aug 2019

wow this is so sensuous! It is like a painting, I could almost feel the words sliding like a paintbrush, all the purple and olive and indigo and gold

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Posted in Fig

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Glad Sid got to shine, a

Posted on Thu, 22 Aug 2019

Glad Sid got to shine, a happy, gentle  version of a disaster movie!

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Posted in from the bus' mouth …

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"a version of me who is

Posted on Tue, 20 Aug 2019

"a version of me who is anonymous 

to myself" I really liked that, feeling of being clean, or maybe unscarred?

"persistent nag of death;"reminder to carve out some meaning"  Yet everything we think and write falls like leaves to the...

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Posted in Morning

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These are great Rhiannon :0)

Posted on Mon, 19 Aug 2019

These are great Rhiannon :0) Once when I was helping out on a school trip there was a little girl getting frightened, so we held hands and I asked her what we should talk about? She said her house, then told me all about her bedroom, and soon she...

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Posted in KidsSpeak

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