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Dear Don: Shadow-play…

Dear Don, The ‘Facing Fear’ weekend proved to be uncannily prophetic… and its location has been in the news a good deal lately, used as an example of the heroism of the willing sacrifice of life and freedom. ‘Willing’ being … Continue reading

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Dear Wen: Shadow-play…

Dear Wen, Wishing there were more of us is an admirable place to start. Imagine how many more people and how much more quickly they would have awoken had more of them ventured forth on our ‘Facing Fears’ weekend. The … Continue reading

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Dear Don: ‘lunatic fringe’…

Dear Don, As a proud member of the lunatic fringe, anything I might say would be complimentary. Seriously, if thinking for yourself… even being at a tangent to reality… gains you that epithet, then I just wish there were more … Continue reading

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Dear Wen: ‘lunatic fringe’…

Dear Wen, Ah, I have it… It was dusk. I even have some photographs, taken during our brief sojourn, of the moon. Perhaps then, it is a sort of ‘Moon Madness’ from the lunatic fringe of the moor, as it … Continue reading

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Dear Wen: Riddles and Runes…

Dear Wen, Physical/Planetary is a rather startling juxtaposition as my old ‘letter-man’ might have put it. The Cow and Calf incident may have to go down as one of the first recognisable instances of something or someone ‘pulling the plug’. … Continue reading

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Photo prompt round-up: Serenity #writephoto

Seeking solitude Being lost to find oneself Nature’s healing touch * The photo for this week’s prompt was taken on the estuary looking across to Edinburgh in Scotland… where I should be by the time this is published! We liked … Continue reading

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Dear Don: ‘Molten-Minds’…

Dear Don, It’s weird, isn’t it…how driving a straight road is mind-numbing, boring and sends you to sleep on more levels than one, while walking the old straight tracks just frees the mind and lets it roam… Perhaps it is … Continue reading

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Dear Wen: ‘Molten-Minds’…

Dear Wen, There is no good reason why straight line thinking should be in charge, it is not only vacuum’s that nature abhors, and as anyone who served in the Roman (Acch phut!) Army will attest, marching in straight lines … Continue reading

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Reading tea leaves, first snow &chocolate eating mice ~ Mary Smith, AfghanistanAdventures#50

Reblogged from Mary Smith’s Place: Lal-sar-Jangal, December 1989 One of the few friends I’d made amongst the women was Aziz’s elderly mother who visited me sometimes to chat over a glass or two of tea. Unlike most of the women, … Continue reading

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Middle of Nowhere…

After much to-ing and fro-ing of furniture… We had finally embarked upon our pre-tour of Wales and were approaching the border of our eventual destination although it would be some time before our actual arrival there… Road and more road… … Continue reading

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