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Archive for July, 2010

  Being Queen is a lonely thing….  I visited my bees on Sunday and they’re all doing well. I have currently three colonies: one hive that is quite populous, one that is less so and one that is tiny. The tiny one is one I created about three weeks ago when faced with the hard [...]

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  English summer   The roads weep tears of tar As the country bakes. The smell of dust and burning earth Mingles with the scents Of barbecues and beer. Dogs pant, distressed By this unusual heat. The puddles that once Were inland lakes, shrink, Dry up and vanish, Leaving cracking mud Peppered with footprints. A few [...]

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While I was walking home yesterday I was musing on various things and the chief of these is the question I have often asked myself: why is it that most of the dearest and closest friends I have are deeply damaged people in some ways? Oh sure, that’d be because they have me in common. [...]

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I just had a lovely review over at : http://creativebarbwire.wordpress.com/2010/06/24/book-review-strangers-pilgrims-by-vivienne-tuffnell/ I am really rather chuffed!

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This is a sample of a book I have been messing about with writing. What do you think and should I carry on and write the whole thing? Chapter Four   Meditation One   Orange   Background   To a modern person there is nothing terribly exciting about an orange but historically, for everyone but [...]

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  Summer came quickly Summer came quickly this year, Scarce a breath between Daffodils and blooming may; Blackthorn and whitethorn Overlapped in flowering bliss. Leaf buds unfurled so fast I could not map their progress, Leaping from tight knots To silken green in moments. The general rumble of rooks Minding their business in treetops Passed [...]

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  Swallows wings and sparrows falling: a little of what goes on in the psyche of an over-sensitive soul.   I was walking along the road, heading off to the post office with a small parcel to send to my father, when I noticed the swallows over head. To me there is something about the [...]

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The following story is the third installment of a trilogy taking inspiration from certain Greek myths. The other two can be read here: Snag and here: Snuggle Snip Tethered to machinery in a high dependency unit was probably not the best place to review the last couple of days, but what options did he have? It wasn’t as [...]

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  I posted this also at The Wild Sheep Society   Make of it what you will.   Sheep   Once upon a time there was a flock of rather wonderful sheep who lived in the lowlands. Each sheep was quite distinct from each other so that while they were all sheep, they all had [...]

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My reflections on THAT  photograph. It’s been a little over a  week since I saw the image for the first time and a week since I posted the picture here and I have had a lot of time to think. I’ve thought about the responses of all those who have seen it and commented on it(either [...]

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