Monthly Archives: May 2015

Excerpt From “The Man Who Missed The Boat”

Posted on May 26, 2015 by Peter Wells aka Countingducks

This is an excerpt from my new novel in which one of the main characters is brought face to face with the consequences of his actions. ” He stood in the cold outside his former life and home and discovered … Continue reading →

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A Brief Courtship Of Sorts

Posted on May 20, 2015 by Peter Wells aka Countingducks

As a young man, sometime before the war, I lived in a world “Of certain certainties” as some poet said, or may have said. I’ve never been of the bookish persuasion but you get my drift: we dressed for dinner, … Continue reading →

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Etiquette And The Awkward Moment

Posted on May 14, 2015 by Peter Wells aka Countingducks

I was best man at my oldest friends wedding recently. I calmed him as we stood in church waiting for his beautiful bride to make her appearance. The waiting lasted forever, you know how it is, but at last she appeared, stunning … Continue reading →

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After Life

Posted on May 12, 2015 by Peter Wells aka Countingducks

Originally posted on countingducks:
Was that her, it seemed so long ago? Another life lived in another age. A young girl dressed  in white, beside the man she’d known since her birth. The son of her dad’s best friend, who played…

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Four Years A Blogging

Posted on May 11, 2015 by Peter Wells aka Countingducks

Here is a picture WordPress sent me to mark my fourth anniversary on their site. As you can see, no expense has been spared in WordPress’s celebration of my entrance to the vintage Bloggers club. To be honest, I wouldn’t … Continue reading →

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Celebrate or Criticise May We Ask ?

Posted on May 6, 2015 by Peter Wells aka Countingducks

“Beauty,” as the wife observed “Lies just beyond the next alteration to her wardrobe or figure” and, as she might have added wisely, but didn’t, is often a subjective measurement based on a thousand variables unless you happen to be Plato, of course, … Continue reading →

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A Life Viewed Through Artifacts

Posted on May 1, 2015 by Peter Wells aka Countingducks

You walk where once we walked,  collecting objects with no knowledge of my ownership, and yet in my time I used and sometimes loved each one of them. Each little fork and button, now brushed by your enquiring hand, was felt or viewed with awe or fear or love … Continue reading →

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