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I have just finished reading "The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes", a collection of short story pastiches collected and introduced by Richard Lancelyn Green and published by Penguin in 1985. In...
Over the past few weeks I have been knitting squares, whilst watching television. Originally I had thought about making them into throws or even a bedspread. Has anubody got any better ideas ?
In the early 80s, I was about 13 or 14 and we read a book in our English lesson that I cannot remember the name of and only part of the story. If I remember rightly, a man had something injected into...
My new wee cottage https://imgur.com/eZQyJ6B Nearly there - there are trees behind but the problem is there's a whopping great yew or leylandii behind the right chimney that goes nearly the whole way...
Prayer Some days, although we cannot pray, a prayer utters itself. So, a woman will lift her head from the sieve of her hands and stare at the minims sung by a tree, a sudden gift. Some nights,...
I have to write a page about it. :( Write a short text (no more than 1 page of Word) on whatever object (be it a single object or an activity; art, design, fashion, media or nature) you consider...
1 Complacencies of the peignoir, and late Coffee and oranges in a sunny chair, And the green freedom of a cockatoo Upon a rug mingle to dissipate The holy hush of ancient sacrifice. She dreams a...
What is the name you called me?-- And why did you go so soon? The crows lift their caws on the wind, And the wind changed and was lonely. The warblers cry their sleepy-songs Across the valley...
Annie On the coast of Texas Between Mobile and Galveston there is A great big garden overgrown with roses It also contains a villa Which is one great rose Often a woman walks In the garden all alone...
Today we have naming of parts. Yesterday, We had daily cleaning. And tomorrow morning, We shall have what to do after firing. But to-day, Today we have naming of parts. Japonica Glistens like coral in...
You are old, father William," the young man said, "And your hair has become very white; And yet you incessantly stand on your head -- Do you think, at your age, it is right?" "In my youth," father...
When you draw on papers it doesn't look like things you draw on clip studio paint ex, microsoft paint and other drawing programs. Those artworks is the artworks you mostly use so i trace artworks with...
A Facebook fellow student wrote this as part of her Daf Yomi studies. One day this will be over And like a bundle of reeds That has been thrown down And stood up repeatedly We will resume standing...
The markets never rest Always they are somewhere in agitation Pork bellies, titanium, winter wheat Electromagnetic ether peppered with photons Treasure spewing from Unisys A-15 J mainframes Across the...
She comes not when Noon is on the roses- Too bright is Day. She comes not to the Soul till it reposes From work and play. But when Night is on the hills, and the great Voices Roll in from Sea, By...