Tag: Weather
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Season of Vlad and Mellow Nukefulness…
Well, it’s been a long year. Deep in October summer still clings on, frightened, possibly, of a season still to come; but the days are shorter now, and The Ukraine remains defiant of Russia’s threats of nuclear winter. Cold winds are beginning to puff their cheeks, while not for the first time this little island…
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Blackbird
Of all the seasons. Spring in England is the most capricious. Not that I don’t love a bit of caprice – I do – but she can get a bit wearing sometimes. She never tires of invention and sometimes, well, you just yearn for a little permanence, you know? Anyway, to put you in the…
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Mud and Sand
“The weather was better in Porthmadoc.” Tim said. “Hmm?” Jen was studying a beer-mat. “In the common parlance, Jen, a penny for them?” “Sorry.” Jen said. The bar-room atmosphere made her whimsical. “Was that your last job – Wales?” “It was.” Her manager launched into an exposition of tyrannical landladies who ruled…
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