We did colourful pumpkins this year. Neither kid likes Halloween. On the other hand, I've been posting a serial ghost story. Can't choose your family.

As the latest storm is coming in, Rose goes out for her normal-for-her fossil hunting session on the beach, but doesn't just bring back ammonites.

Part one of "The Whistle" is unleashed, link in bio. One part a day with a Friday finale. Bonus points if you can work out the inspiration.

The perfect childhood gets shattered by divorce, but can the tide pull everything back together into that picture perfect family photo again?

"Shores Parting" now live, link in bio.

Glad to see you're better.

The Music Box "He opened the drawer... and saw the little music box key. Her music box key. He had found a few weeks ago, but hadn’t had the courage to get to the point of using it..."

The world is still very weird, I got around to playing with last week's ghost story.
Should be writing something else, but never mind, it fits better with the shift in the weather.

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Yeah, and babies come from either a stork or the pumpkin patch.

What?! I didn't know this either! I can appreciate Elmo can get annoying tho.

Same. If we get desperate, I'll be going around the charity shops, pick up some cheap DVDs, and break out my DVD player.

"chocolate pudding is not for dogs"

#microfiction | Jo Green Today is the day for Simon P MARSHALL's #microfiction challenge. The theme is Key. I'm going to have a play with this in a few weeks to expand the story, keep an eye on my Substack to see what happen...

The last week was heavy, I distracted myself with a dinky ghost story. It's still very rough, gonna play with it and expand it, but like how it's going so far.

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It was a heavy week last week, I need a lighter start to this one (which may not continue long, but we can hope). Meet the local recuse sugar glider.

As well as being on IG and 🧵, I also write shorts, with longer pieces in the works. Deets in the usual place.

There are so many interesting shenanigans that go on at that age, it's a waste to not look at it.

Ditto. Starting I plan a novel and everyone is 40+. Realistically, a lot of parents are older now because having kids younger wasn't possible, financially, career wise etc. Actually adds a different dimension and depth.

Despite fear-mongering about ‘strangers’, 61% of women in the UK are killed by a current or former partner* 90% are murdered by men they know.

The biggest threat to women are men they know, not asylum seekers.

Racism is a diversion from addressing femicide.

I lost friends in the UK (as in broke up with) because of the lack of compassion. I have MS, was on the initial isolate early list, and I got back "oh well, that doesn't apply to me". Yet when everything went online, I was the go to, as I already did that. And that's not looking at gov responses.

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I quite liked this post:

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This is what a certain politician is wanting for the UK. My daughter is only here now because of the healthcare we received before and after she was born, and it hasn't bankrupted us.

Google developer #1: "That's it. Our search engine is simple, efficient, and reliable. It's perfect. We're done."

Google developer #2, presumably: "But wouldn't it be *more* perfect if the first search result was always a robot who mansplained your search results to you incorrectly?"

Ours now does free coffee, part of a wider community initiative, and used to have the post office ( which moved into the Co-op down the road). They all gave clubs now as well.

Especially as healthcare costs are reduced with vaccinations. UK now getting chicken pox vaccines for kids, in part because it's a horrid virus and there is a vaccine, in part because it saves a fortune in care.

The Seagulls Have Landed It’s such a beautiful day. The sun is out, there is a good breeze, the sea is glistening blue. Perfect. Except I see the not very secret menace has rolled out early today.

If anyone needs a distraction, the unionised seagulls have been getting attention, and their reach is spreading. Be afraid for your breakfast baps.

Pt1 "The Seagulls have Landed"
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Pt2 "Seagull Dominion"
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I get why Monet liked waterlilies.

This is how you do inclusion simply, cheaply and easily. Also handy for much younger kids who don't have words yet.
This was at a computer history museum, aka likely to get ND visitors, so get awareness of their audience.

Hello!

Every park needs a stick library.

Probably a wise description. It's been an "interesting" weekend here looking at the flag people ranting, who don't even understand the 4 GB nations each have their own flag, and then there is the Union Jack. Who also don't get boat crossings weren't a thing before Brexit.

I was kinda getting bored of Monochromatic Monday on other platforms #BlueSkyMonday