Charnwood Chronicles

Charnwood Chronicles is an online platform for writers to share stories created in - and sometimes about - the Charnwood area of Leicestershire. It's curated by Alison Mott, a writer based in Loughborough. See www.alisonmott.com.

Charnwood Chronicles

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Wednesday, May 7, 2025

Sense of flowers

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One of life’s pleasures is watching drab brown lifeless earth, leafless shrubs and trees, transform with new succulent green shoots, new lea...

Tuesday, April 8, 2025

Apples from the Old Rectory - 1958

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Shortly before the old Victorian Rectory was (largely) demolished, its surrounding gardens contained a number of mature fruit trees. Charley...

Monday, September 2, 2024

Kate

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Who do I most miss of late? ‘Would have to be my Aunty Kate. Younger than my much loved mother, neither one could claim a brother. Sister...

Thursday, April 11, 2024

Hello child, welcome to life!

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This will seem a strange and fearful place to you, no doubt, a jumble of shapes and colours at this stage which you won't have the knowl...

Friday, February 16, 2024

Compassion (in the style of A Nail by Anon)

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For want of compassion, proper funding was lost; For want of proper funding, a doctor was lost; For want of a doctor, an appointment was los...

The Doctor, 2023 - An Ode

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Let me to the doctor go, My pain gets worse, ‘should not be so, I will a quick appointment make by telephone, my hands now shake! Am I in lu...

Wednesday, January 10, 2024

Evita, or not Evita - that is the question!

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Anybody could see that the understudy was making a right hash of the role of Evita, her requirement to learn and practice the words to the m...

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