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No Room (Christmas story)

Posted on December 23, 2025December 23, 2025 by admin

A family friend said something to me that resonated Inderjit is a Reverend.. he sent me a whatsapp that read …

“I am struck by the detail that the new born Jesus was laid in a manger for “there was no room in the inn”. A little more room had to be made for Jesus to be born. This for me is the challenge of the Christmas story for the world. Make a little more room for those desperate for shelter and sanctuary, especially those who are displaced because their homes have been destroyed by war and violence.”

and it sparked my creative juices .. and this came out .. not quite Dickens but I am getting there .. Click the button to read

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The Teddy bear that was Useful one last time

Posted on December 21, 2025December 21, 2025 by admin

A series of events bind the owner of number 2 Nether Oak Close to a stone age woman that needs his help in the present.
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Winter Solstice Thoughts

Posted on December 21, 2025December 21, 2025 by admin

I have a think about this monent of natural change ..

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The woman in the mirror

Posted on December 19, 2025December 19, 2025 by admin

Kate McHugh learns a valuable lesson from a woman that lives in her mirror
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Aideen’s fire

Posted on December 17, 2025December 17, 2025 by admin

An irish phoenix needs the help of Wiliam and Maggie from Number 9 Nether Oak Close
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In Praise of Kitchens

Posted on December 14, 2025December 14, 2025 by admin

I rave about kitchens as you do

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Oisin and the curse of the chipped mug

Posted on December 13, 2025December 15, 2025 by admin

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

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The Transformation of Reverend Samuel Wilson

Posted on December 12, 2025December 12, 2025 by admin

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

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Magdalena Maginnis and the Egg of Unlaid Ambition

Posted on December 6, 2025December 6, 2025 by admin

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

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Mr Broome from The DTP

Posted on November 30, 2025November 30, 2025 by admin

This Nether Oak Close story came from a Sunday morning random music selection of Jim Croce’s “Lover’s cross” .. the line “Pages where mean for turning” echoed across the years from when I heard it first and this story appeared in my noggin .. Click Read More to find out all about the department of turning the page

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