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Tale Weaver – #290 – Campfire – 27th August – The New Fire Pit

Posted on August 27, 2020 by Michael

With the installation of the fire pit in the back yard, the opportunity to sit around it and enjoy the atmosphere created was something we had all looked forward to. Along with the tidying up of the yard and the … Continue reading →

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Sunday Writing Prompt –23rd August – Choosing your Context – Supermarket

Posted on August 23, 2020 by Michael

The strangest thing happened as I went into the supermarket. Past me ran a man in mask pursued by a woman in a flowing gold sequined cape brandishing a pack of frozen peas and screaming: “You just wait till I … Continue reading →

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Tale Weaver – #289 – Masks – 20th August The Thin Eye Mask

Posted on August 20, 2020 by Michael

There was something different about the thin eye mask I found in the attic. I felt drawn to it. I held it in my hands and when I put it up against my eyes the mask fixed itself to my … Continue reading →

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Tale Weaver – #288 – Fairy Tale – The Unpleasant Fairy – August 13th – George

Posted on August 14, 2020 by Michael

George was a most unpleasant fairy. Fate had dealt her a dreadful blow. She had been lumbered with a name she hated and was forever jealous of every other fairy she knew. It was no doubt why she was unpleasant … Continue reading →

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Sunday Writing Prompt –9th August – Choosing your Context – Chucklesome

Posted on August 10, 2020 by Michael

He noted the situation had become grim/concerning/chucklesome.  He had spent the last half hour arguing the point, which by now had become obscured in the miasma of words being uttered by our old friend Crust. Crust whose name was Eleanor … Continue reading →

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Tale Weaver – #287 – Mysterious Markings – 6th August – In The National Park.

Posted on August 7, 2020 by Michael

 I’d been walking in the Dundunara National Park for years and had heard many stories over the years of the hidden caves and the amazing markings on the cave walls. They stayed elusive to me until I met and befriended, … Continue reading →

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Sunday Writing Prompt – 2nd August – Choosing your Context – Kitchen

Posted on August 3, 2020 by Michael

What should have been a mundane Sunday morning turned into something entirely different. It was a funny thing that happened on the way to the kitchen. Though at the time it wasn’t funny, disaster never is. My brother and I … Continue reading →

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Tale Weaver – #286 – Sunrise – 30th July – The Promise of a New Day

Posted on July 30, 2020 by Michael

 Thankfully it arrived every morning, sunrise that is. It took over from the darkness and heralded a new day. There was always a sense of relief to know the long night was over and more importantly, that he had survived. … Continue reading →

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Sunday Writing prompt – Lockdown – July 26th – Staying at Home

Posted on July 26, 2020 by Michael

The evening news finished and he closed his back door with a thud. The news had been appallingly depressing and he wanted to be as far away from it as he could. Another three hundred infections and ten more deaths … Continue reading →

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Tale Weaver – #285 – Forgiveness – July 23rd – On One Knee

Posted on July 23, 2020 by Michael

He thought about the current situation and realised he had to do something as he had overstepped the mark in his comments about her aging. He didn’t know what had come over him, but on reflection, he knew he had … Continue reading →

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