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It makes my heart glad that so many people turned out for John Peel's funeral yesterday. The family decided to have a public ceremony and over 2,000 people attended. Us humans instinctively do recognise and celebrate the truly good people in this world. : )


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I just heard that John Peel has died.

More hereMany's the time I would sit up into the small hours hungry to hear something new. You could always rely on him for that ( Read more... )

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Mark Doty

Ultrasound

Blackboard covered with a dust
of living chalk, live chaos-cloud
wormed by turbulence: the rod glides

and the vet narrates shadows
I can't quite force into shape:
His kidneys might... the spleen appears...I can't see what he sees, and so ( Read more... )

One thing that's very cool about gardening is that you never quite know what to expect when you grow an unfamiliar plant for the first time. brianrdu put me on to Angels' Trumpets, or brugmansia late last year. I'd never even heard of them before, and thought I'd give them a shot.

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so I'm apologising now, because I know it can touch a sore spot, but I'm reducing the number of friends here on my LJ now ( Read more... )

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