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Last post by Hotrodder
Fri May 12, 2023 9:34 am
books we've read over the pandemic
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by
Doug »
Thu Jul 22, 2021 5:16 pm
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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Last post by Niftyons
Sat Jun 22, 2024 5:45 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 Niftyons
Tue Jan 30, 2024 11:10 am
Natalie
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by
Stinky »
Thu Dec 30, 2021 4:47 pm
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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Last post by Blaze
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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Last post by rabbit
Mon Mar 06, 2023 10:13 am
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Last post by A.N.Other
Wed Jul 13, 2022 2:56 pm
The Fear
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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Last post by Stinky
Wed Jun 01, 2022 10:36 pm
Today I met a Granny.
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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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Last post by Stinky
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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Last post by Stinky
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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Last post by Spardo
Mon Jan 24, 2022 1:30 pm
A Heart in the Right Place
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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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Last post by Sparkle
Tue Jan 18, 2022 5:08 pm
Hunters
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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
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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Last post by Stinky
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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Last post by Chappers51
Sun Jan 16, 2022 7:04 am
The Telegram
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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Last post by Stinky
Thu Jan 13, 2022 9:40 pm
Amelie
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
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.
.
My House
.
I have lived here all my...
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Last post by Stinky
Thu Jan 06, 2022 8:57 pm
Lost
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.
.
Lost.
People are...
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Last post by Stinky
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.
.
The...
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Last post by Char
Thu Jan 06, 2022 10:22 am
Very moving verses
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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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Last post by Char
Wed Nov 24, 2021 3:34 pm
Ignore this please
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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
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