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This is a true story, and readers, I was there… Every bank holiday at the end of May, the Gloucestershire village of South Cerney has a Duck Race, in...
I'm sitting in the village bus shelter. It's twenty minutes before the bus is due, but its arrival times are as fluid as today's pouring rain, and as...
I have a lodger cat who moved in with me when my own cat died last year. I think he spotted a vacancy. He lived over the road with a dog who chased him. His owners know that Albert has moved in...
What a poignant story Turlough, with your trademark gentle humour. And what a spooky coincidence you were writing it when he, unexpectedly by the public anyway, should have passed away.
I agree about his music, I hate 'Driving Home for...
This is hilarious ! I do so hope Tommy can jump through all the legal hoops in time and get his drone, water pistol and growly bear delivered for Christmas Day.
The contents are obviously different, but it reminds me of the letters sent...
As a gardener I found this chain of comments about beech nuts very interesting. I've just looked them up and apparently they are notoriously difficult to get to germinate. Even in the wild the germination rate is only 10%.
Oh, I thought it said SAGA ..
Posted on Thu, 13 Nov 2025
Oh, I thought it said SAGA ...
Read full commentPosted in Twenty Minutes at the Village Bus Stop
Or dead poll. Considering
Posted on Sun, 09 Nov 2025
Or dead poll. Considering where he was ..
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You and your family are very
Posted on Sun, 09 Nov 2025
You and your family are very kind Maxine.
I have a lodger cat who moved in with me when my own cat died last year. I think he spotted a vacancy. He lived over the road with a dog who chased him. His owners know that Albert has moved in...
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What a poignant story
Posted on Tue, 23 Dec 2025
What a poignant story Turlough, with your trademark gentle humour. And what a spooky coincidence you were writing it when he, unexpectedly by the public anyway, should have passed away.
I agree about his music, I hate 'Driving Home for...
Read full commentPosted in Driving Home for Chris
This is hilarious ! I do so
Posted on Sun, 21 Dec 2025
This is hilarious ! I do so hope Tommy can jump through all the legal hoops in time and get his drone, water pistol and growly bear delivered for Christmas Day.
The contents are obviously different, but it reminds me of the letters sent...
Read full commentPosted in Letter from Frankincense & Myrrh, Solicitors
And jolly well deserved too.
Posted on Wed, 17 Dec 2025
And jolly well deserved too.
Read full commentPosted in A Hare's Breath 5 - The Dark Hedges
Blimey I wasn't expecting
Posted on Sat, 13 Dec 2025
Blimey I wasn't expecting that.
I'd like to thank my mom, my dog .. and all my lovely friends at ABC !
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Just had this reply from the
Posted on Wed, 17 Dec 2025
Just had this reply from the ranger Kieren :
"Not too many Beech trees around as they aren’t really the right tree for the Waterpark landscape (they don't like wet feet!) "
But he told me where there are a few so if it ever stops...
Read full commentPosted in A Hare's Breath 5 - The Dark Hedges
As a gardener I found this
Posted on Wed, 17 Dec 2025
As a gardener I found this chain of comments about beech nuts very interesting. I've just looked them up and apparently they are notoriously difficult to get to germinate. Even in the wild the germination rate is only 10%.
This is an...
Read full commentPosted in A Hare's Breath 5 - The Dark Hedges
Name that car
Posted on Wed, 17 Dec 2025
Re naming of cars, I think with Asian manufacturers there is a bit of a culture blip when naming models, or at least colours.
I freelanced at Mitsubishi in Ciren for a couple of years 1997-1999. One of their biggest (in every sense of the...
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