Nether Oak close, needed one last story to tie it all up and i felt it appropriate for it to be about the oak that stands in the middle of the green, the single entity that binds all the locations in all the stories
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The Sun and the Moon
Goodbye Róisín
The celts have this idea, very similar to the ancient Greeks and Romans that butterflies are the souls of the recently departed , transforming from one state to another. Indeed the latin for butterfly is the same as the word for soul – Psyche, after a series of dangerous adventures is given immortality and butterfly wings. A very short story about that
The last verse …
.. and so the last Nether Oak Close is done.
Number 21 . home of Carol and Sandy who have a unfinished song …
The Diwali Lotus
This is not meant in any way as “tokenism” but Number 12 is the home of the Patels a family of Gujerati heritgate, and this is their Diwali story
Paul’s lost words
An Elegy for Civilisation
I am a big fan of WB Yeats , particulalry when he goes into full elegy mode where he shifted from the austere celitc romance to an ambivalent tone blendinhg personal emotion with public despair.
After a period of doomscrolling yesterday I threw on my imaginary donegal tweed waistcoat, grabbed epigrammatic blackthorn walking stick and went looking for words these are the ones I found .. aplogies to WB and my sister Janet who was better with words in verses than me
Sidney and the Time Travelling Toilet
I was, as we all do daily, sat doing my buisness on the toilet when I realised that the toilet is the one place we all visit, “Hopefully” everyday. It is an anchor in the river of time and as such is a perfect thing to become a time machine. .and so I give you “Sidney and the Time Travelling Toilet of Number 19 Nether Oak Close
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