Little girls, high on sugar and excitement, imagining their adventures

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Strangers, lost, on finding a gate, met kindness and relief.

Today’s Tale in ten words

A tale of Dorset kindness today.  And in this topsy turvy world, this is a good day to celebrate human-to-human kindness.  The ladies visiting from Wolverhampton had stepped off the bus some three miles from their holiday base. The road ahead was winding and, as is the way in these parts, it had somewhat of a steep incline.  Maybe it was thirst, or the need for clear direction but, after walking a little way, they knocked on the door of a farm.  How refreshing that the lady farmer’s response to them was to bundle them into her car and take them to their destination. And wouldn’t you, or wouldn’t I?

Such toil!
(No coin and candle to grow their wealth.)

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Refreshed by salt-water bathing, faces hidden, protected from sun’s rays.

Today’s Tale in ten words

So, did you follow the twitter storm about the take up of the face-kini? First sported in China by women of a certain age, protecting their skin from the sun. And then more globally – it’s really caught on.  Or maybe it’s women who really did want that spider-man costume in their youth.

The child, seeing faces in the wallpaper, couldn’t be comforted

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Their journey long and arduous.
Could it be for nothing?

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A scene captured in time to revisit and remember ordinariness

Today’s Tale in ten words arose from a visit to the free exhibition in Bridport’s Town Hall.  A bunch of volunteers have created and are manning a simple and poignant representation of these days a hundred years ago. There is a recreation of a front room of a local Bridport family which has in it many familiar but time-distant objects that one might recall from one’s visits to elderly relatives’ homes but with those occasional reminders of the effects of the war – a ration card, a tabak tin made by a German prisoner-of-war and actual publications of the time.

She heard messages,
from the future.
Then made things happen.

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Saw someone famous.
Don’t recall their name.
(So I smiled.)

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London streets washed clean by fresh showers. Stage is reset

Today’s Tale in ten words