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Win's avatar

Just looked at your website..it’s pretty good….will be seeing you again soon x

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Feasts and Fables's avatar

Thank you so much ☺️

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Win's avatar

How delicious to find a site like this called Feasts and Fables….sounds like a magic carpet of delights ….an antidote to ugly and disgusting (literally stomach turning) things happening everywhere in this precious world….and sadly ….some wars are bloodless but no less lethal….if not more so ….

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So happy you’ve found us … and ‘yes’ to a counter narrative, a glance at the upbeat and optimistic. The bad stuff happens … but good stuff too. Shining a light on that helps us, for sure.

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Charlene Lutz's avatar

Thank you.

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Thanks for peeking in!

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Susie Mawhinney's avatar

Ahh Barrie, I do so love what you're doing here, I'm so grateful for this, not so distant and definitely not too distant, friendship.

Your stories get better and better, what a cheeky train ride!

Enormous thanks for sharing my poem, I really must consider having a glass of whiskey in the small hours more often!

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Feasts and Fables's avatar

Yes to whiskey!

And thank you for the kind encouragement … it feels like a very natural complement to our other newsletter, and so good to be able to focus, largely, on Substack voices (with a scattering of eclectic ‘other’).

Ah, yes, borderline ‘racy’ … I should remember my mum reads my stuff!!

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Susie Mawhinney's avatar

Hehe… Your mum was young once too Barrie and it was only borderline!

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Feasts and Fables's avatar

True, I’ve written much saucier!

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Wil Reidie's avatar

Thank you very much kind people!!!

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Feasts and Fables's avatar

Such a great pleasure. Keep up the fabulous flow of words and thoughts.

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Sharron Bassano's avatar

"Ticket, Sir?" Ha ha ha ha! Pretty darned steamy, if you ask me. I have ridden on hundreds of European trains over many years and never had any experience like that. (Rotten luck. ) I loved this little story. It is exactly what I look for on Substack. ( Is this a Barrie story or a JoJo story?) In any case, more please. As far as recommendations, if I could subscribe to only ONE substack writer, it would be Jim Cummings, for his intriguing plots, his masterful dialog and his beautiful use of our language.

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Feasts and Fables's avatar

Ah, fab reminder to me to read more of Jim’s excellent tales.

And, thank you … yep, the fictioneer is Barrie, the ‘Fables’ part of the ‘Feasts + Fables’ team … I’m excited that JoJo is on here in her own guise now; gorgeous photos, local scenes, some running, the good life.

I have a modest collection of slightly ‘cheekier’/racy offerings (way more show than tell, to spare my own blushes (and my mum reads my stuff!) … they’re fun once in a while. And there are a few for JoJo’s eyes only!

Thanks for peeking in, Sharron.

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