Category: Time
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Mr Klempsey’s Sweet Shop and Tobacconist
*Shudders* Mr Klempsey (not his real name) was probably the most frightening man you would ever want to meet. He would peer at whoever entered his tiny shop through a little space in the counter. He would serve every customer through this space if he could, but the sweet shop was on one side and…
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Ten by Fifty
This is my five hundredth post! With Talestream, I’ve posted a few more than 500 times, and with comments here and on other blogs, I suppose the count could be pushed up slightly higher, but this is my official 500th post! Go me! So, to celebrate this bluey-greenish milestone, I have decided to write about…
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Time Travelling
Apparently, ‘they’ have said that time travel isn’t possible. That must be it then. If ‘they’ say it’s not possible, it mustn’t be. Similar ‘theys’ once said travelling to the Moon wasn’t possible, and we have now gone further than that. Similar ‘theys’ said man wouldn’t fly. They were wrong then. Presumably, early ‘theys’ thought…
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Middle ground… a creative idea
I read a quote the other day that went something like ‘life begins and ends with nothing, now is the important time’. I can’t say that I believe the ‘nothing’ parts, because I have my own thoughts and beliefs about past and future lives that I have mentioned in a previous post, but the ‘now…
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One Minute Ramble: Distant Sounds
Outside my window I can hear: A bird chirping loudly… it sounds quite clear It could almost be out on the ledge, But I’d rather guess that it’s in the hedge. Beyond the hedge there is a road A private one, or so I’m told, This backs on to the main street Where all the…