Jim Harwood

Shame there are so many adverts, they overpower a great game, and the price for ad free is beyond a joke.

My mantra is I do what I can when I can

The Old Sour Dog 1 Adventures with sourdough. Part One: Getting cracking.

The Old Sour Dog 1
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Cauliflower. As a child, the smell made me nauseous, and the one time I was made to eat it, I was violently sick.
I've tried it since as an adult and I still throw up. I won't have it anywhere near me.

When I'm presented with a toasted cheese sandwich I strike the very same pose as that tiger. It's uncanny.

I'd like to read one. It's been a while.

Thinking more and more about creative writing for the first time in a long time. It could just be that I don't want to think about Christmas any more.

Who will put them to death?
John 8:7
“He that is without sin among you, let him cast the first stone"
John 13:34:
“A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another."

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
20/20
I know it's a day early.

Shunryu Suzuki - Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind.

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18/20

Werner Holzwarth/Wolf Erlbruch - (The Story of the Little Mole who Knew it was None of his Business)

Sorry, no. That is such an ableist statement. Yes, *some* disabled people can draw, just as some abled people can. Disability doesn't have much to do with it really. It's all about how your eye talks to your hand, and with some people, that doesn't happen.

2025 and upwards... Hi folks,

2025 and upwards...
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
18/20

Bertel Bruun - The Hamlyn Guide to Birds of Britain and Europe

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17/20
Stephen F Goodyear - The New Recorder Tutor

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16/20

Ray Bradbury - The Illustrated Man

There were those in 1914 who believed that war was just what was needed - as a cleanser and a salutary shock. England would be the better for it. As we wait for the result of the final Brexit talks, the heirs of these fools are still with us.

Alan Bennett's diary, 15th December 2020.

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15/20 (I messed up. There are two elevens)

Paul Klee - Rosenwind

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13/20

Various - A Sense of the Divine

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12/20

Kaffe Fassett - Kaffe's Classics

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11/20

Robert Rankin - The Antipope

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11/20

Spike Milligan - Puckoon

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10/20

Dan Lepard - The Handmade Loaf

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9/20

Alan Watts - Tao: The Watercourse Way

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8/20

Mervyn Peake - The Gormenghast Trilogy

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7/20

Adrian Henri, Roger McGough, Brian Patten - The Mersey Sound

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6/20

Thomas Hardy - The Return of the Native

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5/20

J D Salinger - The Catcher in the Rye

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4/20

Mark Twain - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

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3/20

Erich Kästner - Emil and the Detectives