Tamsin S.

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[Tamsin S. @teabeesea]

Pearl pursed her lips and the latest spoonful dripped, like a spilt sunset, down her chin.

Rose sighed and tied another knot in her frayed patience. Sometimes she wished her sister would #hurl things or scream. But she just sat there. Silent. Inscrutable. Like the mice.

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This beautiful willow was cut down a few days ago, and it hurts my heart 🍃

[Tamsin S. @teabeesea]

The mass of catkins
dis
#orients
my eye. As if
the camera dropped
an inch when Spring
took this snapshot
of itself.

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@marshawritesit 😂👏 Good point. @PatchieSteve, there was a #gwag in this prompt

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@marshawritesit Oh yes, a handy reminder

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@marshawritesit I adore the gentle knife you stuck in here, Marsha

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@marshawritesit 😂😂

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@marshawritesit 😁😍

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@marshawritesit Ha, brilliant 👏

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@marshawritesit It does 🌸

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@marshawritesit Marvellous 🧡

[Tamsin S. @teabeesea]

@marshawritesit 'fitful ghosts of snow' 😍

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@marshawritesit Gorgeous 🌤

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@marshawritesit 💜💜

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@marshawritesit 😁😍

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@marshawritesit Reading this as spring is trying to spring upon us was special, Marsha 🧡

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@lillib3t @PatchieSteve You are so kind, thank you ❤️❤️

[Tamsin S. @teabeesea]

Dr Hope clung tightly to the typewriter case. Beside her on the park bench, the dipping light made a ruddy halo of Vixen's hair.

"So, what now?"

Before the girl could speak, an old lady with a bee on her finger tapped past, trailing an unmistakable #sillage of answers.

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@lillib3t @PatchieSteve Thank you, dear Liz ❤️💛

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By royal decree, the #syncopated voice of the Heroes' Bells rang out: Strong is weak, weak is strong. Mice have saved the day.

But this was just the start. A Queen, a giant, a young knight and a pink-robed Mistress joined the wordsmiths, plotting at the Arthurian table.

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@PatchieSteve I have no recollection of writing this 💜 Maybe it was someone else! I am embarrassed that I tried to express being a parent, when the closest I've come is our Eliot 🪶❤️

[Tamsin S. @teabeesea]

Parenting: teacher, swing, driver, horse, chef.

They eat, drink, sleep. Push, pull, spread you lean.

But the girl with straw hair, grass-slide knees, sticky pink cake smile poses. Pantomimes London Bridge. Sprawls. A sunny pool on your beach.

Parenting: Cage. Bliss.

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@PatchieSteve Patchie 😍💜

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@phantomsspleen @_jeffreymartin @slaughteredlam Such a wonderful evening ❤️❤️

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"Who is it, Gussie?" A light skip and hop of a holler came bouncing down the hall.

Mrs Finch frowned and hissed. "Augusta. Call me Augusta in company."

"Yes, yes, sorry, my dear." A small man, dressed top to toe in #dragonfly blue, grinned conspiratorially at Rose.

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[Tamsin S. @teabeesea]

Pearl pursed her lips and the latest spoonful dripped, like a spilt sunset, down her chin.

Rose sighed and tied another knot in her frayed patience. Sometimes she wished her sister would #hurl things or scream. But she just sat there. Silent. Inscrutable. Like the mice.

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"Oh no, no, no, no, no!" Mrs Finch shook her face to an approximation of #vermilion. "Not again. Not here..."

The dalmatian nudged past his owner, bumping her into silence. He edged towards Rose and sat, gazing, at the pale, silver-haired, astonished child in her arms.

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