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Category Archives: community
Parallel Worlds
I remember I was thinking, was it yesterday or twenty years ago, about the existence of parallel worlds. Of other places in distant galaxies where someone could drive his Ford Brillo, or whatever the name of it is, into a MacDonalds and … Continue reading
Posted in blog, character, community, creative writing, Environment, Life, Relationships
Tagged blogging, character, environment, musing, musings, reflections, relationships, writing
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In Syria
Her face was like a river bed dried and cracked by unrelenting heat. Sitting there, beside the church on streets bleached white by sunlight, she made no statement, but still I felt I knew her. This other soul. This old … Continue reading
Posted in character, community, creative writing, faith, Life, Relationships, writing
Tagged ageing, character, conflict, life, musing, musings, reflections, syria, time
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Two Years, Two Hundred Posts
The strangest fact about Blogging is that no one, or very few people, starts a Blog to read anyone else’s. That’s just a by-product of the process. I came to Blogging because I woke in the middle of the night … Continue reading
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Tagged blogging, inspiration, life, reflections, relationships, writing
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Uncontrolled Brawling at Anger Management Class
The Rev Nigel Windstay was a busy chap and liked to keep his fingers in as many pies as possible: not all of them cooked by his wife which irritated the hell out of her. When she got especially annoyed he would tell her to … Continue reading
Posted in character, community, creative writing, Fiction, humour, writing
Tagged character, Fiction, life, reflections, relationships, writing
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The Final Judgement
Not to rub it in, but it hadn’t gone all that well for Simon. Nothing too bad, of course. I wouldn’t like to exaggerate but he always remained, how would you say it, just outside the winner’s circle. Just below the balcony where … Continue reading
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Tagged character, confidence, family, life, musing, musings, reflections, relationships, self-esteem, talents, values, writing, youth
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Life in the Zoo
Here I am, A Lion in the Zoo. All meals ready packed. Adventure no longer on the table . Those primal days, running on uncertain ground are now a story board, caught on a poster laid out before my cage. Needs are catered for … Continue reading
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Tagged character, environment, faith, inspiration, life, musing, musings, reflections, relationships, values
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Living the Nightmare
Let us hope that you do not know the feeling when you are looking at the damage caused by the bathroom ceiling falling down onto your living room floor, together with a cascade of water from the burst pipe which … Continue reading
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Tagged character, confidence, conflict, environment, inspiration, musing, musings, reflections, relationships
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Drifting Into Adulthood
I grew up in a slightly odd childhood, one of the younger of six siblings, and sometime after my mother had exhausted all sense of wonder at the birth of a new child. Dealing efficiently with the demands of a … Continue reading
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Tagged character, childhood, confidence, environment, inspiration, life, musing, reflections, relationships
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The Grand Opening of the Billiard and Indoor Sports Hall
Arthur Barratt Monckton, president of the local Golf and Rugby club, and his wife Doris Dryden Monkton, whose father had a surprising fondness for restoration playwrights, completed their preparations for the dinner and dance marking the opening of the new sports hall. It had been built after … Continue reading
Posted in character, community, creative writing, humour, recreation, Relationships, writing
Tagged character, conflict, environment, humour, musings, reflections, relationships
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