“Patriotism assumes that our globe is divided into little spots, each one surrounded by an iron gate. Those who have had the fortune of being born on some particular spot, consider themselves better, nobler, grander, more intelligent than the living beings inhabiting any other spot. It is, therefore, the duty of everyone living on that [...]
Hey, I’m writing a story at the moment because I really like writing, and also because I want to improve my English writing skills.
I’m thinking of putting this up on Fictionpress, but I first want to know how I’m doing. I asked my sister to read it and she said it was too detailed/descriptive, and [...]
The wedding was a good month away, and yet preparations had begun for it already. Why Amirah, the eldest daughter of a business elite wanted to marry in a bungalow situated in muggy Pakistan when she had glamorous London at the tip of her fingers, was beyond Zara.
She did not understand Amirah. She was so [...]
I’d like to really quickly cover a wooden fence and iron gate with some kind of climbing plant. I remember going to a garden centre years ago and they said there was a clematis (I think) that grew ridiculously fast and out of control.
Problem is my garden is hardstanding so they’ll have to be planted [...]
The house we’re moving into has a typical iron driveway fence that connects the back door to the detached garage. From the drive, you have to go thru the metal gate to enter the back door, porch, pool, back yard.
Problem is that our medium sized Yorkie could probably squeeze under and through the gaps [...]
I have cast iron bookends, which read Jesus never fails. I also have a cast iron man picking apples off a tree, and two open rings in shape of fry pans with a man and a women inside standing at a gate, and an axe, fry pan and 7 other plagues like the bookends
A blacksmith is a person who creates objects from iron or steel by “forging” the metal; i.e., by using hand tools to hammer, bend, cut and otherwise shape it in its non-liquid form. Usually the metal is heated until it glows red or orange as part of the forging process. Blacksmiths create such products as [...]
and that Saint Peter will be guarding them? I mean literally – gates, iron or otherwise, or is this figurative to you ?
Have you been touhed my His Noodly Appendage
m on a cruise ship then all a sudden the big ship turns into a small boat on the back of a camel. And the ocean turns into a small stream in the desert. There is a huge chained-link fence that is closed but as we approach it opens for us. ‘Then all a [...]