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by Char » Sat Aug 07, 2021 2:28 pm » in Welcome and Forum User Guides.
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There are two ways you can add a photo to your posts.

To upload a photo via the attachments option you simply click on the attachments tab with you...
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Natalie

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by Stinky » Thu Dec 30, 2021 4:47 pm
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I met a little girl this summer gone and again a few months later. She touched me deeply.
So I wrote of our meeting.
I hope that this happy story...
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Sat Aug 19, 2023 9:52 pm
Kindle bargain

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by rabbit » Fri Mar 03, 2023 6:32 pm

If like me you are an avid reader Amazon have a great deal. I have just bought “50 Masterpieces “ authors such as Steinbeck, Conrad, Austen Dickens...

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Handy site for finding new authors

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The Fear

Last post by Stinky « Wed Jun 01, 2022 10:36 pm

by Stinky » Wed Jun 01, 2022 10:36 pm

7.30 alarm and the fear starts.
Mum has breakfast ready for me, but it is dry in my throat.
I know what is coming.
Books in my bag, lunch packed.
I...

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Wed Jun 01, 2022 10:36 pm
Today I met a Granny.

Last post by Stinky « Tue Feb 01, 2022 11:23 pm
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by Stinky » Tue Feb 01, 2022 4:15 pm

A while ago I found some history on my house.
Confirmed by Annie who has lived in the village all her life as did her parents.
So I wrote this.
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Tue Feb 01, 2022 11:23 pm
Can you come? Please.

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by Stinky » Sun Jan 30, 2022 9:48 pm

Supper is in a pan on the stove.
Hours to mix and blend the flavours.
Food from my garden, and a gentle smugness surrounds me.
An evening of comfort...

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Mon Jan 31, 2022 8:38 pm
A Life

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by Stinky » Sat Jan 22, 2022 7:52 pm

I wrote this some three or four years ago, when I first started writing, in response to a First World War poem that was posted.

A Life

He is...

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Mon Jan 24, 2022 1:30 pm
A Heart in the Right Place

Last post by Sparkle « Tue Jan 18, 2022 5:08 pm
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by Spardo » Mon Jan 17, 2022 4:38 pm

A Heart in the Right Place

“His heart’s in the right place all right” they said “he’ll always do a good turn.”
Shifting furniture, a lift to the...

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Tue Jan 18, 2022 5:08 pm
Hunters

Last post by Char « Mon Jan 17, 2022 4:30 pm
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by Spardo » Sun Jan 16, 2022 7:04 pm

In 2004, inspired by Lira and Match, sleeping in front of the fire.

Hunters

The two dogs scampered eagerly into the woods. Beyond the wood they...

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Last post by Char
Mon Jan 17, 2022 4:30 pm
The Farmer's Son

Last post by Stinky « Mon Jan 17, 2022 12:19 am

by Stinky » Mon Jan 17, 2022 12:19 am

February
Snow.
A boy is missing, we are twenty kilometres from the nearest town.
Professional help, already stretched will be more than an hour.
The...

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Mon Jan 17, 2022 12:19 am
Today I Made Friends

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by Stinky » Sat Jan 15, 2022 8:58 pm

I wrote this after being dragged off to Brive on a hot summer afternoon before the Covid Invasion.
It is pretty much what happened.
I hope it makes...

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Sun Jan 16, 2022 7:04 am
The Telegram

Last post by Stinky « Thu Jan 13, 2022 9:40 pm

by Stinky » Thu Jan 13, 2022 9:40 pm

Life goes on.
It has to.
Two sons gone to a war that I know nothing of.
Every day, an awakening to a blinding flash of terror.
Waking earlier day...

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Thu Jan 13, 2022 9:40 pm
Amelie

Last post by Stinky « Thu Jan 06, 2022 9:35 pm

by Stinky » Thu Jan 06, 2022 9:35 pm

I wrote this a wee while back in response to a conversation with a friend.
We were talking of a WW2 action that happened.
And I promised not to...

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Last post by Stinky
Thu Jan 06, 2022 9:35 pm
My House

Last post by Stinky « Thu Jan 06, 2022 8:57 pm

by Stinky » Thu Jan 06, 2022 8:57 pm

If any of my stories, make you smile or dampen your eyes, then I am happy.
Happy because I have reached you.
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My House
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I have lived here all my...

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Thu Jan 06, 2022 8:57 pm
Lost

Last post by Stinky « Thu Jan 06, 2022 8:38 pm

by Stinky » Thu Jan 06, 2022 8:38 pm

This is from the last pre Covid summer that we had.
The girl and I are still friends and she says that my French gets no better.
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Lost.

People are...

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Thu Jan 06, 2022 8:38 pm
The Walk

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by Stinky » Wed Jan 05, 2022 8:31 pm

A chat with a longstanding friend about her family history led to me writing this.
A lot of my stories have levity and joy.
But not this one.
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The...

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Last post by Char
Thu Jan 06, 2022 10:22 am
Very moving verses

Last post by Char « Wed Nov 24, 2021 3:34 pm
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by Doug » Tue Nov 23, 2021 4:02 pm

Char thank you for posting those verses.
There's so many deep feelings in your words.
Don't ever get rid of them.

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Wed Nov 24, 2021 3:34 pm
Ignore this please

Last post by Char « Tue Nov 23, 2021 3:38 pm
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by Char » Fri Sep 03, 2021 4:07 pm

You can ignore this - I'm just saving some stuff I wrote and posted on FE years ago before it gets lost for ever, although it might be better lost...

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Last post by Char
Tue Nov 23, 2021 3:38 pm
Take Five

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by nifty » Wed Oct 20, 2021 4:19 pm

Make a Long Line @ The vide grenier at the village.

Note: Written BC.

I was going to post this last Sunday, but, upon starting to write about...

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Last post by Oldblueraincoat
Sat Oct 30, 2021 12:18 am
books we've read over the pandemic

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by Doug » Thu Jul 22, 2021 5:16 pm
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Being avid readers all our lives we have dozens of hard copy books, with the shutdown we went heavily into Kindle or else we wouldn't be able to get...
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