Category: Animals
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A hot day by the Lake
I went for a leisurely stroll around the Lake at lunchtime today. It probably wasn’t, but it must have been a hundred degrees. I was sweltered, and was beginning to think that it may have been a bad idea to go walking, as I could feel my face start to burn. I could actually hear…
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Charlie the Dog
Is your dog real?She said to meWhen clearlyIt was plain to seeThe dogUpon the chair back wasStuffed.And motion free.A bit of doggy nonsense for a Wednesday. And why not?By the way, Charlie’s a toy sheepdog… real and yet not at the same time. He’s less of the Mansion’s guard dog and more of a draught…
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The Burning of Gwylfryn
Centuries ago, just inside the Welsh border, existed a small village known as Gwylfryn. In those days, folk didn’t have names, but used what they did and where they came from as their ‘name’. One villager, Gwylfryn Hunterre, was the hunter. So proud a marksman was he, only one bird defied his arrows; the great…
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Simba
Simba: an East African word for lion. Simba: a character in the movie The Lion King (which I haven’t seen). Simba: The cat who thinks she’s a dog. Simba owns my brother. She made sure that he rescued her a few years ago, one December. He named her Simba in reference to the month, not…
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Observing the weather
As I write, clouds are hanging dark and menacingly up above. And not only overhead – they seem to be covering miles around. Below them, and just above the horizon, thinking about it, the darkness is contrasted by the brightest of white, which tells me that the day’s sunlight is still hanging on, and shining…
The Mansionic Perspective 