Tag: adventure
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To a Friend
It was a yard, a concrete yard, nine years, ten years ago. The people, the back-paw walkers, they will tell you my memory is not that long, but I remember. High walls, a shelter against the rain and Ben, my companion. We shared so many dreams, Ben and I – of the wild things whose…
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A Writing Challenge: the thinking behind ‘A Place That Was Ours’.
In the Wear Valley of County Durham, there is a town called Bishop Auckland, and Bishop Auckland has a bridge. A one-time viaduct, it bore the weight of rail traffic emanating from the coal and ore producing mines of the upper valley. Now it is a road bridge. The mines are gone, but the isolated…
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Top-Class No. 1 Swami Fred. Get a life!
I have decided to become a Guru. Wikipedia (who know about these things) define ‘guru’ as ‘a Sanskrit term that connotes someone who is a teacher, guide or master of certain knowledge’ Well, I can do that. Here is my problem. All my life I have fairly effectively avoided the road to untold riches –…
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