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The Garden - January

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Winter, and it’s grim #limerick

This week’s Esther prompt is snow Not yet snow.. I’m not one to moan, as you knowBut it comes as a bit of a blowThat my journey’s curtailed When my train is derailedBy the fall of the wrong sort of snow

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December Garden

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Regrets #limerick

Let’s begin with a limerick based on lost youth If it didn’t come across as quite strangeThere’s one thing about me I’d change.I’d stop all the clocks,Retrieve my lost locks,And no more, be that bald fool with mange.And that reminds me of one of Dad’sThe Wrinkles LamentWhen we gaze in the mirror while shavingWe mustn’t get too uptight,Though the sight makes us weepBeauty’s only skin deep,And…

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Taste

In my professional life I dealt with several architects. Some, like Norman Foster and Zaha Hadid famous, others less so. Some creations I liked and some… Sadly a lot. Some like Corbusier, whose ideas for simple concrete shapes worked in the bright blue of the Mediterranean didn’t translate to the wet drab grey of the South Bank or Sheffield. And when they were part of a local authority approached…

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Walberswold: Summer. Part two

If you missed part one, you can find it here. Part Two Timothy remembers that day, back in April when he returned from paying the fine. It was cold and he was in a turmoil of frustration and fury. It’s easy for Timothy to put himself back to that time, stepping into the moment. There, as he re-enters the office, he finds Flossy seated at the little desk. In front of her is Burnt, the Booker…

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It Would Be A Crime Not To

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Devil And The Deep

This week’s limerick prompt is worst The Devil smiled: 'I'm well versed''In the best of ways to leave you cursed.''I could make you a lifelong vegan,'Or a leading light in Team Meagan.''You choose: which is the worst?'

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Walberswold: Summer Part One

Part One The buzz that impacts Walberswold once the summer solstice passes is mostly generated by the shopkeepers, restauranteurs, pubs, BnB (both trad and Air) owners and so on as the ability to make some money to tide them over the less productive seasons blooms. Everywhere the mood is positive, wrapped in bunting and inclined to skip. Except in the small office inside Page Turners,…

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Career Openings

My mother in law grew up on a farm in the 40s and 50s and as a young woman worked as a poultry woman in a hatchery. Rural Norfolk was tough and pretty isolated so it’s no surprise that she still has elements of the local accent after many years. Her health has waned recently and she needed to see a doctor about an issue. The Textiliste went along, as daughters do. The doctor was a chatty…

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Leake Street - Street Art passage Waterloo Station

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Walberswold: Spring, Part Three

Parts one and two are here Part Three Flossy finds Timothy’s punctuality both charming and annoying. The Tuesday walk gives her time – between sorting out customers – to find out what Timothy is reading. She has this notion – as yet still just a notion and nothing as concrete as a plan – that she will engage him in a discussion of the merits of his latest reading material, surprise and please…

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Cynic's Charter #limerick

This week’s Limerick prompt is fudge I thought, today, I’d give you a steerOn how best to build a career:Smile lots, learn how to fudge,Avoid those who’ll bear a grudge,And always sound as if sincere.

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Memories of Kensington - And Why It’s Not My Fav

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Walberswold: Spring, Part Two

Part one is here Out of the shop and Timothy is on autopilot. He turns left and heads for the front. He is a creature of habit and Saunders’ Tuesday promenade is two miles and four hundred and twenty-two yards, give or take ten yards to detour to clean up. He will take up to one hour, accepting politeness stops to talk to customers and other members of the Walberswold community. Every Tuesday…

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Universal Laws

I read this recently. Gary’s lot could so easily be mine. Having a dog is a series of delights except when it comes to the evacuations of the anal kind. A few truisms: All right thinking owners will clear up after their pooch; Said pooch will wait until you are distracted and then let go, ensuring a rip snorting game of Hunt the Turd ensues; When you find your dog performing near a group of…

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Walberswold: Spring

Walberswold is a neat-as-a-pin seaside resort on the East Coast of England, equidistant from Lowestoft and Felixstowe. It’s a popular holiday destination in the summer and home to a mix of: local families that have lived hereabouts for generations, surviving floods, land erosion, crop failures and constantly shifting fishing regulations that are enough to make landlubbers of all; tired-of-London…