Category Archives: Nature

Le Chat, Oh!

Posted on October 11, 2017 by Stevie Mitchell

Dramatically depicted wholly for your understanding, I wanted to relate about how there was a cat. And for the specific en-capturement of mice, this cat did stay very still and all up in the manner of a house. A chat-eau, … Continue reading →

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Bibby the Cat Has Moved

Posted on May 7, 2014 by Stevie Mitchell

Bibby the cat has moved house. It’s a defining feature of living where we live, in this hashtag of quiet little roads, in the middle of a jingling of rentals. Cats become a signifier of homeliness; in turn a feeling … Continue reading →

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Interview with a Collared Dove (2010)

Posted on May 7, 2013 by Stevie Mitchell

Every day, around 1:15pm, a lady comes to feed seed to the pigeons on the jetty off S__________’s main promenade, close by the Hotel de __________. Some pigeons, a majority, flock right in and peck about with undistracted purpose. But … Continue reading →

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Twit

Posted on August 22, 2012 by Stevie Mitchell

Coming back from the gym this morning at eight – where, by the way, I had disgraced myself once more; this time by letting out one of those private laugh-barks just at the moment BBC Breakfast dished up a tragic … Continue reading →

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Badly Reacting to Sandals

Posted on August 20, 2012 by Stevie Mitchell

My ankle hurts. Both do really, but by far and away it’s the left one hurts most. That’s left as I look down – the one nearest the window. It hurts when I get up in the morning and place … Continue reading →

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Tree in the Subject Line

Posted on August 15, 2012 by Stevie Mitchell

Big day for other reasons too. The Tree, The Tree, is getting what’s been coming to it, for, like, an age. Unmanaged and oftimes dangerous, The Tree – which, according to my research, is a Crap Tree – has been … Continue reading →

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Brer Sleep

Posted on June 4, 2012 by Stevie Mitchell

My father routinely lies awake at night and this I do too. As a child, sleepless with worry about a different or unclear tomorrow, Dad from the doorway tells me two techniques. One, to think about every holiday we’ve had, … Continue reading →

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Morning, Duck!

Posted on May 2, 2012 by Stevie Mitchell

I went out for a morning walk today also, right after B. left for work. Short one today, round to the river by Duck Island and along the river path to the big weir and then turned about and came … Continue reading →

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