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A terrible memory to be carrying in you. I can only echo Insert and Rhiannon? I hope your shoulder stops hurting. I know what it's like to be near the bottom. The important thing is to find your choices, to know you are where you are because you...
You've conveyed all your feelings brilliantly, specially how jobs are seen as defining people, so not having one makes a person a blob. And yet not having a specific shape/a slot to fit into, makes you able to go anywhere, the possibility of...
Very interesting to read his story. I only really knew of him from hearing an interview about how by the time they let working class people into Oxford it was so dummed down there was no point going there, and that the elites never accepted him...
You are quite right Tom, it's just a collection of nature scenes. It's just that I realised that someone from centuries ago could have seen them, too. And while I think of the wood as a beautiful place to go and see the sun and hear the birds....
What a treasure chest month! I love the colours of the mountainside trees! And the photos on the gravestones. And is Manoushka the cat in your photo, looking so contented? Even with so much that is wonderful, I would NOT LIKE to live with no...
Fabulous reporting, enjoyed reading so much! Big THANK YOU for writing and sharing your wonderful photos, too. That lake is such a bright colour! And the beautiful lupins, and those little red flowers, look like petunias, but can't be as they are...
This is so exciting to read!
Posted on Mon, 21 Sep 2020
This is so exciting to read! How many poems about wind there must be, but you have made it new. Particularly liked
"Watch it climb a house in a second like an upside down waterfall,
Watch it ballroom dance with a plastic bag And...
Read full commentPosted in I Want To Watch The Wind Dance
A terrible memory to be
Posted on Tue, 14 Jan 2020
A terrible memory to be carrying in you. I can only echo Insert and Rhiannon? I hope your shoulder stops hurting. I know what it's like to be near the bottom. The important thing is to find your choices, to know you are where you are because you...
Read full commentPosted in The policeman sat in the armchair
"Stars seeded"
Posted on Thu, 15 Nov 2018
"Stars seeded"
"they passed taxis, night buses, lonely punters stumbling on the long walk home."
"the Firth of Forth moving in glittering sheets below them. The bridge lights were reflected in the dark water as if a row of...
Read full commentPosted in Aura (19)
what a great metaphor for
Posted on Wed, 19 Jun 2019
what a great metaphor for aging
We walked the plateau
Flat and scattered green
But now in this desert scape
Dragging our bags behind.
Pink is a halfway colour, isn't it? Unthreatening, which is why it's so scary...
Read full commentPosted in My Favourite Colour's Changed
You've conveyed all your
Posted on Tue, 12 Mar 2019
You've conveyed all your feelings brilliantly, specially how jobs are seen as defining people, so not having one makes a person a blob. And yet not having a specific shape/a slot to fit into, makes you able to go anywhere, the possibility of...
Read full commentPosted in Last Week I Lost My Job (Rimus Dissolutas)
BRILLIANT!!!
Posted on Wed, 20 Feb 2019
BRILLIANT!!! This is absolute magic :0)
love "pale posy bunches" "coin wings" Wow! "seed-bulge" perfect . Also "far beyond their leafing"
well, all of it, really!
Insert, i wasn't sure what the trees across the road...
Read full commentPosted in The fruit of the elm
Very interesting to read his
Posted on Fri, 02 Feb 2018
Very interesting to read his story. I only really knew of him from hearing an interview about how by the time they let working class people into Oxford it was so dummed down there was no point going there, and that the elites never accepted him...
Read full commentPosted in Les Rowse, Philippe and I
You are quite right Tom, it's
Posted on Sun, 17 Sep 2017
You are quite right Tom, it's just a collection of nature scenes. It's just that I realised that someone from centuries ago could have seen them, too. And while I think of the wood as a beautiful place to go and see the sun and hear the birds....
Read full commentPosted in time travelling
What a treasure chest month!
Posted on Thu, 27 Nov 2025
What a treasure chest month! I love the colours of the mountainside trees! And the photos on the gravestones. And is Manoushka the cat in your photo, looking so contented? Even with so much that is wonderful, I would NOT LIKE to live with no...
Read full commentPosted in Nor Any Drop to Drink
Fabulous reporting, enjoyed
Posted on Fri, 28 Nov 2025
Fabulous reporting, enjoyed reading so much! Big THANK YOU for writing and sharing your wonderful photos, too. That lake is such a bright colour! And the beautiful lupins, and those little red flowers, look like petunias, but can't be as they are...
Read full commentPosted in Inca Ice and Lupins
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