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Ewan Lawrie

The picture is me signing copies of my novel, Gibbous House at Unbound Books HQ in Islington by the canal.
All three Moffat novels are available here

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Next Year, I'm Going to Travel

Travel as metaphor? Probably not... Image: Adam Jones from Kelowna, BC, Canada, CC BY-SA 2.0 < https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0> , via Wikimedia Commons

Juke Box Jive

As simple as it gets. Image from flicker.com : CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
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Imperfect Beauty

... and by that token, this is very beautiful indeed. Image author's own.
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Eve Still Spins

Umm... I'm sure you'll figure it out. Image is PD painting is in Carlisle Art Gallery, attributed to Italian School c.1650
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Escape Stupidity

Escape Stupidity: a bit like escape velocity, it's the minimum point of idiocy reached to need to leave the planet... Image author's own: collage made from images at canva.com

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385 of my comments have received 419 Great Feedback votes

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Very nice nod to

Posted on Tue, 03 Sep 2024

 that other ghost story 'A Christmas Carol' in the first line. Nice original premise and well played out in part two.

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Posted in Ghostbot (Part One of Two)

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This is our Pick of the Day 22nd August 2024

Posted on Thu, 22 Aug 2024

  Not a word wasted in this intriguing and thoughtful two-parter and that's why it's our Pick of the Day today.

Please could readers share a link to these on whatever social media you use?

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Posted in The Big Blank (1/2)

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Congratulations, this is our Pick of the Day 15th August 2024

Posted on Thu, 15 Aug 2024

 Funny and sad at one and the same time, this is our Facebook and Twitter pick of the day.

Please could all readers share/re-X/socialmedia-ficate so it gets read as widely as it deserves to do.

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Posted in Benches & Hedges

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Not John Lennon's Brother

Posted on Thu, 15 Aug 2024

But I think it might have been Yosser Hughes's though...

Liked this one a lot.

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Posted in Benches & Hedges

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It's a mis-quote of

Posted on Wed, 07 Aug 2024

 A cuisle mo cridh "A cushla Mac(h)ree" it sounds like more or less. It means 'Pulse of my Heart'. A term of endearment in Irish Gaelic.

I've made a name out of A cuisle do cridh "A cushla doh-c(h)ree",...

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Posted in Akushla Dockery* (Is Vic There?)

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Congratulations, this our pick of the day for 17 July 2024

Posted on Tue, 16 Jul 2024

 Well done, consistently imaginative, believable and very, very funny. That's why this is our Pick of the Day today.

Please, dear readers, share this on whatever social media you use. It's not fair to keep all of this wonderful tale to...

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Posted in Parcel for you...Part 29

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Fly Agaric!

Posted on Tue, 16 Jul 2024

 Hahahahaha... let's hope Spencer never encounters the real thing... Still enjoying this very much indeed.

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Posted in Parcel for you...Part 29

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Congratulations! This is our Pick of the Day 10th July 2024

Posted on Wed, 10 Jul 2024

 This is our very well-deserved pick of the day. Please share and repost/tweet whatever your Social Media allows you to do in order that more people get to see this excellent work.

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Posted in A Midsummer Night’s Dream

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Much as I love the work of Mr Zimmerman,

Posted on Tue, 09 Jul 2024

  - and I really do, for I consider Blood on the Tracks one of the best albums ever made - I doubt he ever wrote anything as unambiguous as this poem. I only wrote it* because I wanted to record it.

Thanks for reading and commenting....

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Posted in Juke Box Jive

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Not everyone finds

Posted on Tue, 02 Jul 2024

 their place, but I'm very glad you've found yours. Otherwise, there would be none of this acerbically-tinged whimsy to cheer me up when I read it.

умний писчий приятно и читать

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Posted in Where Have All the Flowers Gone?

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