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The Old Woman With No Cat
The Cat Claims Lindisfarne Monastery(Or: A Feline Descent into Nordic Grandeur) The Old Woman relaxes in her armchair,eyes half-closed,as Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungenswells through the room.Gods and giants,rhinemaidens and riddles,a musical earthquakeof splendid and silly. The cat sits on the rug,ears twitching,tail conducting the kettle drums,and somewhere between Siegfried’s horn calland the descent into…
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The Old Woman’s Weather
29.09 – 905 Watts in Sussex cloudsthe old woman asks the roofto make slow-cooker beef stew the repairman arrivessays the house alarmis older than his thirty-year-old son replaces the batteryold for newwhile the roof makes teathen more tea because repairmen have hollow legsthey need to filllike a battery — from The Old Woman’s Weather All…
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The Old Woman With No Cat
The Fallen Branch(Or: A Feline Inquiry into Loss and Limbs) The Old Woman comes in from the garden,arms scratched,breathing slightly hard,dragging the last of a great branchto the burn pile. The cat watches from the windowsill,head tilted. “Old Woman,” he says,“that branch was large.It was attached to the tree.For years.It grew there.It knew the tree.It…
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The Old Woman’s Weather
27.09 – 417 Watts The old woman in cloudy England puts solar panels on her roof. Her son says it’s madness;it’s always cloudy here. She puts the weatherto work anyway. Weather used to be something she talked about. Now it does household chores. 28.09 – 0 Watts at dusk the weather clocks off. the old…
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September: Last Photo on the Card
This post is in response to Brian’s monthly challenge – Last Photo on the Card. Brian (aka Bushboy) asks for the Last Photos on your phone/camera/SD card. Here is the last shot taken using my iPhone 16Pro Max. Shared on Twitter with @bushboywhotweet
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Ten Things of Thankful
Please note that there’s currently a bug in WordPress’s Jetpack Mobile iOS app where images don’t load. They’re working on it, they say. This post is best viewed in your browser. I. Solar Thankful that the solar panels went onto the house and garage roof on Monday, and we are now generating roughly twice the…
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0110: A Thursday Door
Dan’s Thursday Doors opened the way to share my love of doors — of all sorts. I’ve trawled through my photos and found a few to share. Bushboy (Brian Dodd) also shares photos of doors from his his journeys. ©Misky 2022-2026 Shared on X #amwriting @bushboywhotweet and @DAntion
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30.09: dVerse Haibun
Reflections on Sight and Shadows Not yet, but nearly. “In the sunlight we are all blind,” she says. Winter sun lies low, barely touching the alley, missing the cat, the rat, the chase. She tilts her head; her ears lean into the wind as it troubles the fence slats and moves through them with a…
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29.09: A Six – SSC&B Alcove
The Alcove The Heist (episode 1) Chris, aka La Raconteuse, opens her laptop, a fork stands flag-pole-straight in our shared slice of Mimi’s Chocolate Cake for Challenging Days — she types so hard the keys chatter as she chases through New York landmarks records, Madison Avenue plans, façades, floor layouts, and every architectural scrap the city has…
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29.09: Dead Men Don’t Drown
Dead Men Don’t Drown: #8 (catch-up with all episodes here) Episode number 08: Dead Men Don’t Drown That night I sleep badly, pitching from one side of the bed to the other as though the cottage has come loose from its foundations and we’d gone to sea. At dawn I give up, pad barefoot downstairs,…
