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Growbars and Crowbars
The recent sunshine and warmer weather have encouraged me to consider spring planting. I remembered I’d been given packets of seeds for Christmas… In our garden-shed I discovered parsnip, beetroot and lettuce seeds… and a ‘growbar’… which I misread as ‘crowbar’. Closer inspection revealed that the growbar is tomato seeds ‘in a bar of fertile…
Damaged and Broken
Richard held out his hand, holding something in his clenched fist: ‘I’ve got something for you.’ Puzzled, I held out my hand. He gave me my bicycle light. ‘Sorry, Malcolm,’ he said, ‘I was manoeuvring Oz’s mobility scooter, it clipped your bike and broke the light off. Things often get damaged and broken; we speak…
From Survival to Celebration
Yesterday… Reading… Captain Howard Reid, betrayed and recaptured by the Germans in Italy, in 1943, played ‘Poor Tom’s a-cold’… I didn’t recognise the phrase… Mr Google says it’s Shakespeare – King Lear. …Edgar, Gloucester’s son and heir, is cast out from his family by his half-brother Edmund’s scheming. He disguises himself as ‘Poor Tom’, a…
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