Shanks’s pony is getting tired
Shanks’s Pony is an old idiom for feet and walking. I’ve been having problems with my feet – they don’t like carrying me any more.
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Shanks’s Pony is an old idiom for feet and walking. I’ve been having problems with my feet – they don’t like carrying me any more.
Doggerland is the made-up name for a place that really existed and for which there is archaeological evidence. Aeyland is complete fiction.
Guilty secret is a piece of flash fiction originally published last year in Far Flung, the last Writers Abroad anthology.
Fire in the bowl, or Cinderella and the flaming deposit, a supposedly eco-friendly adventure from my recent holiday (though I have my doubts)
A writing prompt on the website of my writers’ group has me counterfeiting a letter my father might have written to me.
Jana Kippo is the protagonist of a recent successful trilogy of novels in Swedish by Karin Smirnoff. I ponder, and try my hand at translating.
The bungalow at Beach Green in Shoreham-by-Sea was the third place I lived, but the first place I have clear memories of.
What the partridge in the pear tree dreams. The retold tale of Perdix, murdered by Daedalos but saved by Athena – and what she dreams.
Debbie Jimack is the same Debbie Warwick of an earlier blog post, my grandmother. That earlier post lead discovery of more family history.
The Ballet of Absurdist Nonsense – possibly Le Ballet du Balivernes Absurde – flash fiction written for prompt #17 of the FlashNano 2020 challenge