Di_Hard
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My stories have been read 551159 times
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1865 of my 5,728 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 1918 votes
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remembering dandelions (again)
Prisoned between tarmac bars of road and footpath herbicide subdued Earth waits sure of the last laugh when only the toughest are still around to see...
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breezy
this breeze, seeming slight might be calmness dying, a storm’s birth it could have come from Samarkand or been in Neanderthal lungs we all breathe...
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10th july grasshopper
mossy rocks tumbled from windbreak wall hold back reed tines' reaching on and on to moor's distance misty bright of gorse here, in warm air, low...
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wet 6th july
clouds secrete clear, cold threads, falling, coccoon round tree limbs shade flesh, lumens an airy tingle of tall grass, till rainbow orbs pool bodies...
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june 25th, woods after a hot day
far from carrion concrete, afternoon. flies score warm silence. Butterflies duet in aerial line to plane silhouettes over hushed, close packed...
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I think you are right to have
Posted on Sat, 14 Sep 2024
I think you are right to have chosen to concentrate on this one group of people and your growing relationship. There are, tragically often, stories on the news about terrible things allowed to develop in care homes. To have your experience so...
Read full commentPosted in Taking Care 6 (i)
Wow! You are so good at
Posted on Sat, 14 Sep 2024
Wow! You are so good at writing exciting scenes! This is BRILLIANT!
Read full commentPosted in Drowning Not Waving (Dead Reckoning series - Part 26)
That is really well done!
Posted on Sat, 14 Sep 2024
That is really well done! Explaining so much in such a natural way! And the mystery of the missing recipe book. More enticing plot to unfold :0)
Read full commentPosted in "Willow's Missing Tail" 17
I really enjoyed this, too.
Posted on Sat, 14 Sep 2024
I really enjoyed this, too. The rhymes were brilliant, fun to read, but also like repeated sounds are familiar landmarks seen from different directions when you walk around a small area. Altogether wonderful
Read full commentPosted in Before Maps Were Made
This will be a very good book
Posted on Sat, 14 Sep 2024
This will be a very good book
Read full commentPosted in Taking Care 6 (i)
Oh, no! Is that Spencer's
Posted on Fri, 13 Sep 2024
Oh, no! Is that Spencer's opinion of Vanessa? It just occurred to me (only just!) that for neither of them, ever, has there been any possibility of love. For Vanessa there is worry and responsibility, for Spencer ...? Like being new in a job,...
Read full commentPosted in Parcel for You.. - Part 34
That's really clear and easy
Posted on Fri, 13 Sep 2024
That's really clear and easy to understand. I hope it helps those who read it. Would be very good if it could go to schools, too. There is a misunderstanding often (here, at least) that people cannot be empathetic and autistic, or that autists...
Read full commentPosted in What is Autism? A brief guide...
Absolutely BRILLIANT! Smiling
Posted on Fri, 13 Sep 2024
Absolutely BRILLIANT! Smiling all through, so many great descriptions, like "the strange orderly silence of idle knives and forks". Really enjoyed, thankyou so much for posting
Read full commentPosted in The Big End
Brilliant news about 30th
Posted on Thu, 12 Sep 2024
Brilliant news about 30th October! I am so glad you will have only a few more weeks, and not wait all through Winter, though serious amounts of fluid must be really painful. I do so hope you will be able to go out to feed your birds and speak...
Read full commentPosted in Escape To Ridgeway
yes, we had the boiler on
Posted on Thu, 05 Sep 2024
yes, we had the boiler on last night :0) Enjoyed this, as always the Age old patterns of everything so well expressed, berries, tubers, leaves, the importance of warmth inside!
Read full commentPosted in The earth moves on …
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