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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #222121;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Post 16. Tuesday January 1616</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #222121;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></span> <span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #222121;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></span> <span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #222121;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;">When he was a child he had a plan; a plan to take him to where he wanted to be. But his goal was like buried treasure at the end of a rainbow. With every step forward it moved one step away. </span></span> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222121;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">He asked his grandfather for advice. “Lad,” he said, "to reach life’s goals you must run when you can”. But he ran too fast stumbling along the way leaving a trail of failures in his tracks. “Walk if you have to” he’d said. But he walked with head bowed passing so many of the opportunities that life offered him. “Crawl if you must,” his grandfather said. He crawled, he pleaded, he begged, but beseeching gained no favours.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222121;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">When his grandfather passed away, black clouds of despair covered the blue sky of hope. The last words he’d uttered echoed in his mind. “Never give up lad” he’d said. With that, a rainbow appeared. He gazed heavenward. “I won’t let you down Grandad” he yelled.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">I froze. My blood ran cold. I would never see Mum</span></span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">my</span></span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"> and Dad</span></span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">dy</span></span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"> again. </span></span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">I should have said</span></span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"> sorry for breaking </span></span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">the head off my sister's doll a</span></span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">n</span></span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">d blaming it on her friend.</span></span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"> I </span></span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">should have </span></span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">own</span></span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">ed</span></span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"> up to </span></span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">hiding</span></span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"> my other brothers favourite t</span></span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">oy</span></span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"> soldier. I’d miss my rabbit. I’d miss seeing Bill and Ben on the television tonight </span></span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">and pizza for supper tomorrow. </span></span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">My teddy would miss me. Who would look after him?</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">I had this book about a jungle</span></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">. There were pictures of scary animals and one was a huge </span></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">leopard.</span></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"> I always rushed past it, i</span></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">t</span></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">really frightened</span></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"> me. And there I was </span></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">facing </span></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">one</span></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"> in my own back garden. Daddy said </span></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">they</span></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"> only </span></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">lived in zoos here.</span></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"> Why did he tell me a fib? Why was I looking into the eyes of one now? </span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">Every night before bed, I had to say my prayers. Something about keeping me safe. So, surely Mr God would shoo the leopard away. But he didn’t. It came closer and closer.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">Just then Daddy came out into the garden. “What are you doing here you big fat </span>pussycat<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">?” he laughed. “</span>Mrs<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"> Thomas was wondering where you had gone to!”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Standing in his pulpit, the Reverend Caruthers silently surveys the congregation which braces itself in nervous anticipation. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">"Beware the temptations of the flesh" he suddenly hisses, </span><span style="font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">then as the veins in his forehead bulge, he explodes, spitting like a venomous snake. </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">“Fornication, drunkenness; let not Satan determine your destiny for the wages of sin are certain death”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;">Later that night, he booked into a bed and breakfast in Dover. He sat with his new passport in one hand, a large malt whisky in the other and a satisfied smile on his face. “Welcome to the world Sam Smart” he muttered. Tomorrow he would head for the docks, the ferry and a new life.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222121;"><span style="background-color: white; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>I came across this piece when I was reading back through my blog this morning. I wrote it eleven years ago. My, how time flies!</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222121; font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;">Exactly one year ago I set up this blog which was odd because to me folk who used computers as a hobby rather than for work were anoraks, nerds! </span></div>
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Keith's Ramblingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13564578491652021492noreply@blogger.com24tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36300005.post-56515891440087626192018-01-03T15:00:00.002+00:002018-01-03T17:54:33.730+00:00.<span style="font-family: inherit;">Post 1660. Wednesday January 3</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 17.3333px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Bonne Année! </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Gleðilegt nýtt á</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: 13pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">r!</span><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 17.3333px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Heri ya mManigong Bagong Taon! </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Waka mpya! </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 17.3333px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Buon anno! </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: 17.3333px;">Gelukkig </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 17.3333px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Nieuwjaar! </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Xin Nian Kuai Le! </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">けましておめでとう, </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">0 San Nin! Fai Lok! </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 17.3333px; white-space: pre-wrap;">¡Feliz Año Nuevo! </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mutlu yıllar! </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sťastný nový rok! </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Godt nytår! </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Hyvää uutta vuotta! </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Godt nytt år! </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Szczesliwego Nowego Roku! </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Feliz Ano Novo! </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">S novym godom! </span></div>
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<span style="color: #222121; font-family: inherit;">Oh hello! She’s got me hanging out the washing again. She’s obsessed with cleaning you know. Yesterday she washed the washing machine because it’d had dirty clothes in it. Last week she complained this garden looked dirty. It’s <i>mad</i>e of dirt I said!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #222121;">She even accuses</span><span style="color: #222121;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"> </span></span><span style="color: #222121;"><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">me </span></i></span><span style="color: #222121;">of being dirty. Me...dirty! “Wash your hands, take off those mucky clothes, get your muddy shoes off the upholstery, when did you last change your underwear? You’ve got a dirty laugh and a filthy mind”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;">Standing ankle deep in the snow stood a young man bearing a terrified expression. “My wife’s having a baby,” he said “The ambulance couldn’t reach us so I was trying to get her to the hospital myself, but we got stuck in a drift. Do you have a room we can use? Please?”</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;">John had no spare rooms, but he saw the desperation on the man’s face, “Bring her in" he said. ”You can stay in the storeroom”</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;">A baby boy was born. Somehow, news of the birth rolled out across the village. Several locals approached the pub hoping to see the new child. They brought gifts; a gold bracelet, scented candles, and sweet smelling flowers.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;">That was longs ago. The village still looks the same as does The Cross Inn. But something feels different. A place where something wonderful must have happened. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>This week's given words at <b>The Sunday Whirl </b>are - star, pin, lights, wonder(ful), roll, lane, approach, gutter, line, spare, split, and release, of which I've used most!</i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> <i>Thank you, <b>Sunday Photo Fiction</b> for the picture</i>.</span></span>Keith's Ramblingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13564578491652021492noreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36300005.post-1162058095279842612017-12-22T11:55:00.004+00:002017-12-23T12:22:03.718+00:00.<br />
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Yesterday I became one of the half a million people to visit the Christmas Market held annually at Winchester Cathedral. I then queued for one and a half hours to make sure I got a seat in the Cathedral for the Service of Carols and Lessons. Despite being the longest nave in any cathedral in Europe it still only seats just over 2000 people with a few hundred more standing so not everybody gets in! I go every year despite it now involving five hours driving there and back!</div>
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Imagine if you will a crowded street. People pass by seemingly unaware of the busker standing in a doorway playing an accordion. He<span style="color: #222121; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> stops, stands motionless for a moment or two bearing an expression of terror, then staggers forward and turns. A flash of light bounces off a steel blade protruding from his back and in seconds his white shirt blushes blood red. He collapses into a heap, like a puppet with broken strings, the instrument beneath him wheezes a tuneless groan. </span><span style="color: #222121; font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;">The onlookers gasp.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222121; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Every day, just before opening my cafe I would hear the tap-tap of her umbrella on the window.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #222121; font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;">She always did that!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222121; font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;">She would study the menu for ages before calling me over. ‘Dish-of-the-day and a nice cup of tea dear’ she would say.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222121; font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;">She said that every time!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222121; font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;">One day, last February when I delivered her meal, she was sleeping.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222121; font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;">She never woke up.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222121; font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;">Her knitted hat still hangs on the hook. It’s not my cafe anymore, but it’s still there. I like that. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #222121; font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;">She probably would too.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Dinah</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #7f6000; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222121; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">dragged a </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">brush</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222121; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> through her hair, sucked in her tummy and smiled.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #222121; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“</span><span style="color: black; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mirror</span><span style="color: #222121; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> mirror on the wall, who’s the....”</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #222121; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Crash! It fell down and smashed to bits. So she went to the one in the bathroom.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #222121; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“Mirror mirror on the wall who’s the .......”</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #222121; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">It suddenly steamed up.</span></span><br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-87e9a6c6-6e42-47c6-8d0f-c0f318aa392b"><span style="color: #222121; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“I get it” she said. “You mirrors don’t have the heart to show me what you see, so from tomorrow</span></span></span><span style="color: #222121; font-family: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">... no, the day </span><span style="color: #222121; font-family: inherit; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">after </span><span style="color: #222121; font-family: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">tomorrow I’ll eat fruit instead of a chocolate, a </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">spoon</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="color: #222121; font-family: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">less sugar to help my medicine go down and</span><span style="color: #434343; font-family: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> s</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">top</span><span style="color: #7f6000; font-family: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="color: #222121; font-family: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">snacking in front of the telly. That way I’ll shed all this </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">weight and</span><span style="color: #7f6000; font-family: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">will</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="color: #222121; font-family: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">be the fairest of them all.”</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222121; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">It didn’t last long though. So she got herself a new bedroom mirror. It was one of those funny ones you see in the in a Hall of Mirrors at the fun fair that make you look skinny when you're not! Dinah liked what she saw. It behaved itself, stayed put and made her look...well, pretty good actu</span></span><span style="color: #222121; font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;">ally!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;">As night drapes a blanket of darkness over a slumbering world, I slink away into the stillness of the street. I hear the rustle of fallen leaves, the rattle of a discarded can cartwheeling along the gutter. </span><span style="font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;">I spin my head toward a screeching owl for I a</span>m not alone on my nightly journey. I turn again as a fox skips from one overfilled dustbin to another. A bat swoops. Fluttering moths frantically fly around a street lamp whilst a spider<span style="font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;"> weaves a web with which to harvest the flying fruits of dawn.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;">We are the creatures of the night. Our night. Ours.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222121; font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span> <span style="color: #222121; font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;">I had a good memory once. I used to take part in quizzes.</span><br />
<span style="color: #222121; font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span> <span style="color: #222121; font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;">I did – didn’t I?</span><br />
<span style="color: #222121; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span> <span style="color: #222121; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Why is this happening to me? Why me? It makes me so </span><span style="color: #222121; font-family: inherit; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ANGRY!</span><br />
<span style="color: #222121; font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span> <span style="color: #222121; font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sorry, sorry, I didn’t mean to shout.</span><br />
<span style="color: #222121; font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span> <span style="color: #222121; font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;">It’s like mind is trying to look through a misted window. It makes out shapes but not the detail.</span><br />
<span style="color: #222121; font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span> <span style="color: #222121; font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;">You wouldn't understand, why should you? </span></div>
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<span style="color: #222121; font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;">Who are you anyway?</span><br />
<span style="color: #222121; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span> <span style="color: #222121; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">My son? What son?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222121; font-family: inherit; font-style: italic; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span> <span style="color: #222121; font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span> <span style="color: #222121; font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;">My nurse is lovely. Jenny. No, Jacqui. I think.</span><br />
<span style="color: #222121; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span> <span style="color: #222121; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">You’d like her. She has the most </span><span style="color: #222121; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">beautiful</span><span style="color: #222121; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="color: #222121; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">black hair.</span><br />
<span style="color: #222121; font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span> <span style="color: #222121; font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;">She understands me. She wipes my misty window, and for a few precious moments, everything makes sense.</span><br />
<span style="color: #222121; font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span> <span style="color: #222121; font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;">But then it steams up again and I forget what I remembered. </span><br />
<span style="color: #222121; font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span> <span style="color: #222121; font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;">Anyway, cheer up. We're having fish and chips tonight! Do you want some? Julie will be bringing it soon.</span><br />
<span style="color: #222121; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span> <span style="color: #222121; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">She has the most </span><span style="color: #222121; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">beautiful</span><span style="color: #222121; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="color: #222121; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">blonde hair.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222121; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">‘Look Daddy, the fairies are back! They are dancing round and round’ She often saw them, but all I could see was the little village I made for her at the bottom of the garden. 'They are waving to us Daddy, do you see?'</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222121; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Maria was born poorly. Unable to walk unaided, she would sit in her wheelchair for hours on end singing, laughing, and talking with the fairies. We knew her life would be short, but the end came far sooner than we expected. Just eight short years, but joyous ones nonetheless.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222121; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="color: #222121; font-family: inherit;">As I turn my gaze toward the orange glow of a crackling log fire, warmth fills my cheeks. Steam wafts from a comforting bowl of soup assaulting my senses. Here, winter is shut outside. As I draw the curtains, I am reminded that no matter the season, life is good.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">A cat wandered into my apartment the other day, and no matter how often I sent it away it kept coming back. And yesterday it leaped into my car with me! Don’t laugh, it’s not funny. I mean, why on earth did it choose me? If cats are so clever, how come it doesn’t know I have a deep dislike of like them? Dogs, masters, cats, servants and all that.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">My friends think it’s hilarious. Let it sit on your lap they say. No, I say. Take it for a walk on a lead they say. No, I say, I’d feel a right clot!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">It asked for some milk the other day. I didn’t have any so I gave it a bowl of yogurt instead. It lapped it up then went hyper! Jumping, climbing the walls, somersaulting! Ok, that last part’s pure fiction, but it did send it a bit do-lally! I’ll try giving it that cream liqueur stuff next! Baileys, that’s it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Anyway, it looks like I'm stuck with it so meeow for now!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;">It sounded simple in theory. Twenty assorted screws, one allan key, ten bits of wood and in minutes a bookshelf! Now, this one here, that one there; no that one there, the other one….this way up, no ......grrrrr!</span></div>
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<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Thank you Varad for this week's tricky challenge.</span></span></div>
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<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">‘Dead? You thought I was dead?’ he yelled.</span></span></div>
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<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">‘Millie Malone, I’m arresting you for the attempted murder of Cliff White. Anything you say…’</span></span></div>
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<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">‘...will be taken down as used in court. Yes, detective, I know. Do what you have to’ said Millie dropping her bouquet to the floor and holding out her wrists.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The cast, crew, and extras of Soap Street started excitedly chattering.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">‘This episode was meant to end with a cliffhanger' he said, 'but not like this. How the hell are we going to carry on without Millie Malone?’</span></span></div>
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