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Food tastes much better
when someone else cooks for you
this was my moment
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by Scooj
Category: 1. Haiku
May
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I’m digging again
while flitting sparrows twitter
orange tips flutter
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by Scooj
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Smug
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Overwhelming pain
overcome and defeated
running for my life
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by Scooj
I have managed to keep up my running, which I started at the end of February when I couldn’t run more than 400m without walking. This morning I managed 4.5km, with hills. 5k is in sight. Feeling smug.
Unforecast
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Dark evening clouds
gather, dropping heavy rain
quite unexpected
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by Scooj
Scrabble
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A game for wordsmiths
resurrected in our home
still competitive
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by Scooj
Refresh
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So dry for so long
watering plants in April
at last the rain comes
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by Scooj
A short letter on the matter of lies
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Dear Boris Johnson
you have spun a web of lies
in which you are trapped
.
I was taught not to tell lies
Yours etcetera, Stephen
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by Scooj
Three words
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Do you remember?
Conversation opener
to warm our cold hearts
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by Scooj
Clay
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Claggy when too wet
sets to concrete in the dry
blooming Bristol clay.
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by Scooj
Digging my allotment is a trial. The soil is clay based and no matter how much organic matter I chuck in, the clay seems to rise to the surface. When it is wet it is impossible to dig, everything sticks to everything. When it is dry, it becomes so hard that pushing a spade into it causes a jarring sensation and breaking the lumps is serious hard labour. Perhaps I should move.
Old faithful
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Rhododendron bush
although leggy and ancient
puts on a great show
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by Scooj
I inherited this rhododendron from the previous owner some 28 years ago and it looked tired and leggy even then. It is in the wrong soil and really shouldn’t even be alive, but every year the flowers just seem to get better. This year is the best show ever.
Natural adventures 