Month: Dec 2022

#ScenicSaturday 31/Dec/2022

On By stuartakenIn Author, Creative Writer, Nature, Photography9 Comments

These pictures are from December, though not this year. I share them here to show #ourworldiswonderful.From the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, England, this one shows a small portion of the brook that eventually flows through the village to join the River Wye, which forms a border with Wales. This particular part of the forest is …

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#ScenicSaturday 24/Dec/2022

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These pictures are from December, though not this year. I share them here to show #ourworldiswonderful.From the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, England, this one shows a faint, narrow path between beech and fir trees on a hillside north of our home. This one was taken on Boxing Day 2021, with my used iPhone 8+. # …

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A Seasonal Short Story for You. Enjoy!

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The picture above is by Larry Krause, on Flikr It is replicated using the Creative Commons License The story is entirely free and posted just below this brief intro. I have a free seasonal story on my site already, but it’s a humorous piece about New Year, and has been on there for some years. …

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#ScenicSaturday 17/Dec/2022

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These pictures are from December, though not this year. I share them here to show #ourworldiswonderful.From the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, England, this one shows the path following the fence around the beaver enclosure, an experimental project designed to prevent flooding in the village below this stretch of hills. As far as I can tell, …

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Bridport Prize 2022 Anthology: #BookReview.

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This anthology from the respected Bridport Prize annual competitions presents the winners of the Poetry, Short Story, and Flash Fiction sections. Of the 35 pieces published here, I’m disappointed to report only one, Kerry Lyons’ ‘Seventeen Weeks’, really moved me. Many of the others struck me as pretentious, overly academic, self-absorbed, or simply incomprehensible. A …

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#ScenicSaturday 10/Dec/2022

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The pictures in this series are from December, though not this year. I share them here to show #ourworldiswonderful.Taken in the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, England, this one shows a winding path through an area called Sallow Valets Inclosure. The massive tree in the foreground is possibly a grand fir, but it may be something …

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#ScenicSaturday 03/Dec/2022

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The pictures in this series were all taken in December, though not this year. My digital picture library started with my first DSLR camera, bought a while back. I share them here to show #ourworldiswonderful.Taken in the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, England, this one shows a small footbridge taking the path over a private drive …

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