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Month: November 2012

Keep calm and fish for sympathy

Just a head cold

14 August, 201829 November, 2012

Colds. They’re not very fashionable. “Just a head cold,” people say. Most people seem to think that confessing to having a cold is a bit lame. The fashionable disease is the flu. Nowadays you rarely hear people say “I have a cold”, you’re much more likely to hear them say “I’ve got the flu”. More…

Categories Articulations, Biography and memoir

Prodigious

14 August, 20188 November, 2012

The creatures of the world debated which of them had most right to the title Prodigious. More…

Categories Commonplace, Round-up

Somnambulate

14 August, 20186 November, 2012

Come somnambulate with me
Through silver-touched night gardens
Where the oil-black stream slips slowly by
And poppies nod by winding paths
Slow night-dark heads in off-beat time. More…

Categories Articulations, Poetry

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