Month: December 2025

An irish phoenix needs the help of Wiliam and Maggie from Number 9 Nether Oak Close
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Grief does not pass; it changes shape. At first it arrives like a tsunami of tears, and later as something quieter—an ache that dulls, a tear that comes less often, but never quite leaves the edge of memory.

This came home to me at a concert Val and I attended. One of the support acts played a song called “Crow” to a crowd of over ten thousand people. Written for the singer’s father figure, the crow becomes a stand-in for memory itself—persistent, sometimes haunting, a mixture of love, loss, and the difficulty of moving on.

Around the same time, I listened to an Irish actor reading “The Dead” by James Joyce. What struck me was not the story itself, but the ending: the quiet realization that the dead continue to live within us, and that one day we too will survive only as memory. In Joyce’s hands, this is not despair, but a profound affirmation of life.

So this story is “after” James Joyce and Andrew Davie and probably not as good as either and dedicated to all those that grieve

A fire and brimestone preacher learns a valuable lesson in what it means to be human.. Read the story by clicking the nice button below

Another Nether Oak Close story about Magdalena Maginnis who lives in the number 3 , retired office administrator and part time psyshic , who is having trouble with “Relevance” .. .. click Read More to read the story 🙂 Enjoy