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Hi ladybell. I have a similar
Posted on Thu, 14 Jan 2021
Hi ladybell. I have a similar history and understand the conflicting emotions. First of all, make sure you and your mother are safe. I can't better the advice above. Try the links and contacts in the above comments. Second, you are not alone and...
Read full commentPosted in How do you forgive a parent?
Hi littleditty. A lovely
Posted on Sun, 10 May 2020
Hi littleditty. A lovely thoughtful poem. It really put me in touch with the spirit of spring renewal. It flows like those chalk streams. I used to visit the Chilterns a lot when we lived in North London. Stokenchurch was a popular hang out, and...
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You've captured the mood in
Posted on Fri, 13 Dec 2019
You've captured the mood in your own novel and enjoyable way, Rhiannon. Very well said and well put.
Cosmology with a thread of your faith.
Entropy is much in evidence these days.
Read full commentPosted in Weary world
Hi Tom. Can't please everyone
Posted on Fri, 04 Oct 2019
Hi Tom. Can't please everyone and I'm certainly not going to go all apologetic over religion. Anyway, it's true, isn't it? It IS said that He created everything. When people start invoking bearded men in the sky to tell women what they can and...
Read full commentPosted in Never trust a writer
Hi insert. There's an
Posted on Sat, 10 Aug 2019
Hi insert. There's an interesting point there. I couldn't get the ending (cadence?) right, or as I heard it in my head. I'd need to rehearse it more, which is tricky at the moment. The crux of the recording issue, I suppose: performance. There's...
Read full commentPosted in In perpetuity
A very honest piece. I've
Posted on Sat, 01 Dec 2018
A very honest piece. I've been numbed by the response of the BBC to all this, whose approach is to produce a statistical analysis proving that there is no problem. So are the almost daily reports fake news? Or was fake news the failure to report...
Read full commentPosted in When Death Comes Too Soon
Lovely and sparse. Well
Posted on Tue, 03 Jul 2018
Lovely and sparse. Well thought-out, Elsie.
A real invitation to think about what's going on in the spaces between the lines.
I was wondering if RUN! needs to be there?
Read full commentPosted in Go Now
What a lovely piece, Gayle. I
Posted on Mon, 25 Jun 2018
What a lovely piece, Gayle. I'm so glad you posted it. Our cat had two homes. We only found out in his latter years. He'd often wait a whole evening outside the pub at the end of the street for my brother, my dad and I to come out and make little...
Read full commentPosted in Cats and Cuddles
Thanks Di_Hard. Writers.
Posted on Sat, 07 Apr 2018
Thanks Di_Hard. Writers. Critics. Readers. All you can do is get on with the job and see what comes. You should have seen how many times I had to rethread the needle. I turned up for my Eng Lit exam on the wrong day, about 40 years ago. I've been...
Read full commentPosted in On sewing buttons
Thanks everyone. I'm always
Posted on Thu, 06 Jul 2017
Thanks everyone. I'm always amazed and very grateful when someone says something nice about something that I can't seem to help doing.
Maybe something to share: I've recently written three pieces / poetry (?) that readers and writers on...
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