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Night Swimming
We're living through Goldilocks weather. It's been too hot to sleep. Then it was too wet for my tomatoes to ripen, too cloudy for the runners [...]
Dear Reader, He Moved In
The Toad is right up there with the viper when it comes to expressions of morality in literature. He's the method by which feminine goodness is [...]
The Spectacle Tree
The topiary at the top of my garden is definitely due a hair cut. I've resisted doing it myself because a lack of three dimensional vision [...]
Masquerade
If you attend one of the great masked balls of Venice, its said that you will not recognise your own reflection in the waters of the [...]
Circles Of Damnation
I have had a glimpse of Hell. I have swum the waters of the Styx and crawled up the bank on the far side. I did [...]
Something Went Twang
What Covid 19 has given me is sleep. I'm touching wood. I don't want to speak too soon. I've got my fingers crossed, which is not [...]
Resistance Is Futile
The BF has taken up jigsaw puzzles. She's currently doing a one thousand piecer of the 99 most beautiful places she won't be going to any [...]