Tag Archives: conflict

The G20 And The Voice Of Wisdom

Posted on November 15, 2014 by Peter Wells aka Countingducks

As world leaders meet once again  to talk about the problems besetting the planet, including our environment, economies and political stability, the newspaper columns are full of Putin and the Ukraine border crisis. His manner is contained, unapologetic and stubborn, blaming any difficulty … Continue reading →

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Lost in A Photographs

Posted on October 15, 2014 by Peter Wells aka Countingducks

The only thing she knows now: it is not safe to cry. Holding on her only strategy but here, in this old photograph you  cannot see that in her eyes, not in this image  taken way back when, before experience and grief robbed her … Continue reading →

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Possibly A Step Too Far

Posted on October 2, 2014 by Peter Wells aka Countingducks

I don’t know how long it had been, or how you would characterise it. A friendship of sorts, naturally, but what was the garnish, and was there magic in it? The question began to bother me, so one morning, as … Continue reading →

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Is it “Van Go” or “Van Golf”

Posted on September 29, 2014 by Peter Wells aka Countingducks

You know the situation. You’re standing there drinking a cocktail you couldn’t afford in a month of Sundays, because you’ve been shoe-horned into some corporate hospitality “Shindig” by a friend who happens to know your are “Always in need”, of cocktails … Continue reading →

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A Birth in Gaza

Posted on July 30, 2014 by Peter Wells aka Countingducks

To those unknowing of my childhood my enigmatic and disconnected behaviour must have seemed odd and possibly uncivilised. In youth I could not see beyond getting by and surviving day by day; ‘learning’ was another country where less damaged people … Continue reading →

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Gathering Political Unease

Posted on July 22, 2014 by Peter Wells aka Countingducks

I love Blogging, always have, and hopefully will continue to do so, and I talk about a lot of stuff, mostly personally based, and make up stories because that is my pleasure, but very recently as events have unfolded in … Continue reading →

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Principle and Romance

Posted on June 5, 2014 by Peter Wells aka Countingducks

The Rev Cardew Patterdale enjoyed everything a man might delight in as the vicar of a prosperous living in a southern county of the United Kingdom apart from faith. This small blemish, failing, disconcerting uncertainty or however you characterise it … Continue reading →

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Meeting The Famous

Posted on May 23, 2014 by Peter Wells aka Countingducks

I don’t know if you’ve had that moment I’ve had: perhaps you have, perhaps you haven’t. I saw someone I recognised from television. I knew the face but not much more than that. Quiz program presenter I think. The kind … Continue reading →

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Victim of His Own Impulses

Posted on April 22, 2014 by Peter Wells aka Countingducks

She was a lady in the crowd,  undistinguished in all matters but one: on her right shoulder, underneath her blouse which was white, I could see a black bra strap. I thought it odd that a woman with a white blouse  … Continue reading →

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A Footnote in History

Posted on September 16, 2013 by Peter Wells aka Countingducks

Perhaps he was a footnote in history, there was no one left to ask, this veteran of a near forgotten war, now bought to life only in films and sometimes books, but lived by him back when his legs stilled moved, … Continue reading →

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