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The Sincerest For Of Poetry
Apprenticed To My Mother
Walking Into Trouble
Dead Flies and Sherry Trifle
The Last Will Of Sven Andersen
Booms And Busts
Buster & Moo
Salisbury Square
My Father and Other Liars
Life In A Conversation
Life, in a Grain of Sand
Life In A Flash
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Tag Archives: trees
Why You Must Talk To The Trees #flashfiction #humour
Ponsford Aerosol hated being on the defensive and even less being threatened. He had been practicing as a lawyer for some forty years and in that time he’d acted for all varieties of the human diaspora, seventeen species of fish, … Continue reading
Posted in creative writing, flash fiction, humour, miscellany
Tagged creative writing, flash fiction, humour, talking, trees
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Writing In Fractals
I walk a lot. Mostly with Dog, come rain or shine. Sometimes I let my thoughts run free, more a mental ramble really. At others I have the radio on, BBC Sounds, some podcast an Audible book. And occasionally it … Continue reading
Sometimes Even The Trees Can’t Fight, But Don’t Stop Hoping…
I like digging. Odd maybe, but as soon as we acquired our first garden I knew where my strengths lay – not for me the fancy-dan designer stuff and certainly not the intimate knowledge of plants species – I have … Continue reading
Posted in nature, suffolk, thought piece
Tagged digging, fairness, resistance, Suffolk, thought piece, trees
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The Book of Trees #dulwich #trees #villagelife #poetry
I live in a part of South London that is full of trees. The other day I got hold of this. It is hand drawn and shows the position of many unique and rare species of tree in my neighbourhood. … Continue reading
The Day of the Trees #shortstory
Sue Vincent has another prompt. This week I have a short story. The Restoration of Trees Frnn, like all trees, took the long view. He might be thought of as an arboroterrorist but that didn’t make him hasty.
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Tagged propmt, short story, sue vincent, trees
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Quotes and trees
This covers two prompts, both by Colleen at Silver Threading: Writer’s Quote Wednesday and Christmas trees from around the world – this being Surrey circa 1967 And then there was the time I took the fairy on the tree to … Continue reading
The Invisible Tree
I walk a lot. Mostly with Dog, come rain or shine. Sometimes I let my thoughts run free, more a mental ramble really. At others I have the radio on, Radio Four mostly. And occasionally it is music. I watch … Continue reading