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I have become invisible
Do you know that I once caused a traffic accident just by walking across the road? Of course you don't. You look at me now and how, I wonder, do you see me. Mother of five,...
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overthehillandfaraway on 2007-09-02 03:29:19 Average Rating:  | Views: 126 | # Comments: 4 | Tags:
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Friday the 13th happened on a Monday
I was really happy when I woke up this morning. Well, at my age it's good just to wake up! Anyway, this morning the sun was streaming through my window and it was a real blue sky...
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overthehillandfaraway on 2007-09-03 11:17:58 Average Rating: | Views: 172 | # Comments: 7 | Tags:
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Whatever you say, say nothing!
When I was a very small child, I believed no one else loved me like my granny did. When I went to stay with her and my grandad in their cottage in the country, I was pretty well allowed...
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overthehillandfaraway on 2007-09-05 09:26:02 Average Rating: | Views: 109 | # Comments: 3 | Tags:
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Looking after friends who have lost a partner
Today, quite by chance I caught up with a friend of mine from way back. I had got to know her through another friend and had always enjoyed the time I spent with her. Two years back she...
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overthehillandfaraway on 2007-09-06 04:36:52 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 90 | # Comments: 1 | Tags:
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The hermit in the woods
We just got back from France where we stayed in a wonderful old farm house backing on to a small forest. The visitor's book informed us that there was an old man who lived in the woods behind...
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overthehillandfaraway on 2007-09-23 15:26:18 Average Rating: | Views: 93 | # Comments: 1 | Tags:
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Seasons
Isn't it the wierdest thing that when summer arrives you just don't want it to end and yet, when it does, you're kind of glad? I walked with my dogs yesterday in the crisp, autumn sunshine...
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overthehillandfaraway on 2007-09-26 00:49:22 Average Rating: | Views: 115 | # Comments: 3 | Tags:
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Did you ever wish the ground would open beneath yo
Forgive me now if any of this sounds disrespectul for it was never my intention. Honestly. My son's fiancee's grandfather died and his funeral was this morning. My son was abroad...
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overthehillandfaraway on 2007-09-27 07:16:23 Average Rating: | Views: 119 | # Comments: 5 | Tags:
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The Miracle of Susan, a true story.
I ran an art gallery in Belfast and for almost ten years a girl called Susan managed it for me. Susan became my second daughter and was so much a part of the family, for years she lived in...
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overthehillandfaraway on 2007-09-30 14:06:03 Average Rating: | Views: 177 | # Comments: 6 | Tags:
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