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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.“
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.
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...
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
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)
It is like you are suffering from lack of oxygen, isn't it? Being stuck in the house, the frustration, somehow the best thing seems to be to shut down. Post meno pause I feel like Humpty Dumpty just thinking about climbing over a wall :0)
yes, the space thing gets me, too. So busy looking for the remote possibility of life out there even as we wear away at any possibility of the amazing wonder that is Life continuing down here
Wonderful read, thankyou. Am constantly amazed on here at the detail of other people's childhood memories. And books. I can read books I know I loved as a teenager bcause by a favourite author, but not remember the tiniest bit. You really brought...
Sorry to read about the flu, was wondering why no poems from you lately. But this is worth the wait. I like the beginning, having to go back after the fourth/fifth stanza and check it didn't have to be about a person then wondering what it was, a...
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.“
Read full commentPosted in Mechanics & Artists
I like this one.
Posted on Sat, 24 Mar 2018
I like this one.
Posted in Beyond the Day
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.
Read full commentPosted in The Lad from Pointe de Bute (Chapters 13-14)
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...
Read full commentPosted in So long
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
Read full commentPosted in Coimbra Haiku
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)
Read full commentPosted in They all rolled over
It is like you are suffering
Posted on Fri, 02 Mar 2018
It is like you are suffering from lack of oxygen, isn't it? Being stuck in the house, the frustration, somehow the best thing seems to be to shut down. Post meno pause I feel like Humpty Dumpty just thinking about climbing over a wall :0)
Read full commentPosted in Housebound
yes, the space thing gets me,
Posted on Thu, 01 Mar 2018
yes, the space thing gets me, too. So busy looking for the remote possibility of life out there even as we wear away at any possibility of the amazing wonder that is Life continuing down here
Read full commentPosted in Jack Mutant - Which Way is Down? (part thirteen)
Wonderful read, thankyou. Am
Posted on Sun, 25 Feb 2018
Wonderful read, thankyou. Am constantly amazed on here at the detail of other people's childhood memories. And books. I can read books I know I loved as a teenager bcause by a favourite author, but not remember the tiniest bit. You really brought...
Read full commentPosted in Uncle Patrick and The Age of Elegance
Sorry to read about the flu,
Posted on Sat, 24 Feb 2018
Sorry to read about the flu, was wondering why no poems from you lately. But this is worth the wait. I like the beginning, having to go back after the fourth/fifth stanza and check it didn't have to be about a person then wondering what it was, a...
Read full commentPosted in Traveller
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