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Love
How do you show your love? “Some love too little, some too long, Some sell, and others buy;” Oscar Wilde, The Ballad of Reading Gaol I love cats and I show them by noticing how they feel and understanding what they need. A stray arrived one day and was hungrily eating crumbs of bread I put…
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Time
What is a lie you tell yourself? I haven’t got time,it runs away from me,I’m lazy.But really I’d be fine,or better, if I could seemore clearly.Not waiting for a sign,a random thing to freemy priority.Now is a happening line,putting things on it a key,with flexibilityLet important things shine,like beacons across the sea,quite sincerely.
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Dreams
What was your dream job as a child? Had I the heavens’ embroidered cloths,Enwrought with golden and silver light,The blue and the dim and the dark clothsOf night and light and the half light,I would spread the cloths under your feet:But I, being poor, have only my dreams;I have spread my dreams under your feet;Tread…
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Iris
Who is your favourite author and why? Dame Iris Murdoch. I’ve just finished listening to her Booker prize winning novel, The Sea, The Sea after watching a film about her life. I really enjoyed the film… the novel even more. It has fascinating characters with wonderfully evocative descriptions of the backdrop scenery of the sea.…
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Home
What irritates you about the home you live in? Being home is where I’m athere I put my yoga mat,set my bed and lay my hatMake a rod for my own back. Feeling home is where my heart is,there my soul and spirit parties,enjoys some food and feeds the cat.Prays to love just where I’m…
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Palette
What colour describes your personality and why? Introverted… silver white,the shining lining.iNtuitive… of a grey cloud,imagining rain.Feeling… a wintergreen dream,of things to come.Perceptive… it’s all connected,organic brown.Turbulent… trendy pink,makes you think.Because it’s winter.
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Vegan
What’s your favourite meal to cook and/or eat? Nuts and berries, veg and fruitDips and sauces, saladsFresh tender leaves, lambs lettuce,Rocket, cress.Sweet ripe tomatoes,Piquant pickled chillies, olives,Toasted sunflower seedsDressed in sesame oilAnd dark balsamic vinegar. Clear soup or fruit juice,Sparkling dandelion wine.Hot chocolate, coffee,Cups of green jasmine tea.Sherry, Ginger cordial,Spiced mulled herbal claret.A barley lemon…
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Sandboy
Describe the happiest day of your life. Building castles in the sandon a sunny-summer day.With a plastic spade in hand,bucket turrets is serious play. Carefully construct a moatfor when the tide comes in,on frilly-frothy wavelets floatto enclosing a little realm. Such happy place to be,that salty-sandy bay.When swishy-soothing sea-bright air blew sweet-time away.
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Cherries
Do you have a memory that’s linked to a smell? Roasting coffee beans, shining darkripe cherries on a hot summer day…my mind is back in a Rome café. Colourful hustle and bustle, lookas a scent of vanilla wafts my way,ice-cream vendor swirls iced dolce. On a bank of the Tiber’s roiling wavesI recall the smell…
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Mystic
What fear have you conquered? Fear of the dark consumed me.Sounds in the night loomed large.Wild blood curdling screeches harbourdanger. Whispers, rustles, scuttling… cant see!A blackness with imaginings to fill.Goblins, trolls and strange implings,Terror and fearsome anguished things.Storybook spooks gave me chills. And then not long before one dawn.A grey shape bathed in moonlight droveaway…
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