Tag Archives: environment

In Search Of Improvement

Posted on August 15, 2022 by Peter Wells aka Countingducks

Those friendships we enjoyed, so casually, in a life, not overburdened with demands, allowed us room to celebrate with ease, a freedom we now find embalmed in photographs, and  some remaining artefacts. Me grinning with a new caught fish, the … Continue reading →

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Lost Conversations

Posted on June 19, 2017 by Peter Wells aka Countingducks

Heard on the radio, a transmission from past decades: fragments of a conversation, picked up as the spacecraft travels its uncharted path. “I’ll see you soon, put the kettle on,” then laughter cut off by silence. “Who were they” you … 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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The Unsought Memorial To Sir Simon Gutteridge

Posted on April 22, 2015 by Peter Wells aka Countingducks

My uncle, Sir Simon Gutterage lived his whole life seeking that phrase or comment which might  guarantee his immortality. Despite a title, gained by an ancestor for turning a blind eye to the rampant affairs of a long dead and unlamented … Continue reading →

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The Narcissist

Posted on January 27, 2015 by Peter Wells aka Countingducks

He always opened doors for ladies. and thanked you if you made him tea: in all the facile worlds he entered, he defined life’s mannered courtesies, but something in his bearing told you his instincts were all predatory. He swam through life’s corralled … Continue reading →

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What You Want I Am

Posted on January 21, 2015 by Peter Wells aka Countingducks

The single truth which fed and clothed her every day since dropping out of university to embrace her new calling was to do with men. Inspired by the welcome and then depressing attentions of her classics professor, she realised she could earn … Continue reading →

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You could call it a meeting of minds: a moment  for two souls who found in each other’s company that,briefly, the world made sense, but that was all it was and everything. It was a holiday romance, a trick of circumstance where a lady … Continue reading →

Posted on January 20, 2015 by Peter Wells aka Countingducks | 20 Comments

Hold Onto Your Hats. It’s Christmas Once Again

Posted on December 23, 2014 by Peter Wells aka Countingducks

For the fourth time now, masquerading as Countingducks, I am very happy and pleased to wish the Albanian with his family of goats and all my other Blogging chums, many of whom have become cherished friends over the passing years … Continue reading →

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A New Thanksgiving

Posted on November 27, 2014 by Peter Wells aka Countingducks

It being Thanksgiving day, and my having little else to do, it was my custom to go round to the old people’s home and give them some home made rock cakes, with the emphasis on the word “Rock” owing to … Continue reading →

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Love On A Train

Posted on November 24, 2014 by Peter Wells aka Countingducks

I am the man you pass in corridors, or walk by on the street: an unassuming example of conformity, avoiding challenge if he can, and letting duty be his guide, rather than expression. A man who knows his wife, as much … Continue reading →

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