Category: Favourites
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Before England’s Green and Pleasant Land
Back in the day when England was connected to the rest of Europe by land, Southern England was a desert. This was during the Ice Age, and mankind was just taking his / her / its first steps, competing with woolly mammoths, woolly hippos, woolly rhinoceroses, and woolly sabre-toothed tigers for food and places to…
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The Pyramids and Other Wonders
Kate Shrewsday’s recent post ‘Seven wonders’ couldn’t have appeared at a more apt time for me. Coincidentally, that is, as I’m in the process of telling a tale featuring the Greek Gods and vast journeys across the years. Also coincidentally (or maybe not) is the fact that the only remaining Wonder of the Ancient World…
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Rewriting the Classics… Miss Muffet
Emily trotted into the room with glee. She was only five feet tall, but had a big presence. She plonked herself down upon her stool and read the slogan on her packet of salt and vinegar crisps: “Delicately flavoured salt and vinegar potato crisps by Curds and Whey” she read aloud. She then thought “Hardly…
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The Daily Stranger
This is personal. I’m sorry about that. This is the only way I can communicate with you. I’m sorry about that, too. I see you walking, I don’t know if you notice. You brighten the dullest of mornings as you walk along the pavement. I can’t speak to you as we pass each other, I…
The Mansionic Perspective 