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Autumn is a crow

Posted on 25/10/2016 by walkingthecat

Autumn is a crow Landing in the birch, causing Golden leaves to fall   (with greetings to Kim)

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You say potato, I say Kartoffel

Posted on 08/06/2014 by walkingthecat

I rescued a broken rain barrel (with a crack at the bottom) from my mother’s compulsive need to discard everything — a compulsion, btw, that is the exact opposite of that of my paternal step-grandfather, who needed to save everything … Continue reading →

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The colour burgundy

Posted on 19/05/2014 by walkingthecat

When my grandmother was a teenager, her only brother went to war. It was World War I and he never returned. When my grandmother was a new mother with two toddlers, men came to her house (the very house I … Continue reading →

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