Last on the card – March primroses
April 4, 2025
The ancestors of these primroses jumped into a plant pot in Wales and made a journey…
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Maria Donovan is an author of fiction and non-fiction. She won first prize for Flash Fiction in the Bridport Prize 2019. Her published works include a short story collection: 'Pumping Up Napoleon' and a debut novel, 'The Chicken Soup Murder', which was shortlisted for The International Rubery Book Awards and a finalist for the Dundee International Book Prize.
River Brit
June 8, 2024
The last photo for May is of the River Brit. A place full of memories, but always changing.
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Happy Publication Day!
April 4, 2024
Spring seems the perfect time for my story ‘Narcissus’ to make its appearance, just one of the fourteen offerings in Botanical Short Stories, edited by Emma Timpany. Out today, 4 April 2024!
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Blurry Bunnies!
April 3, 2024
The Easter table is my Last on the Card for March. Following the guidelines set by Bushboy I’m posting this unedited. As you can see, it isn’t properly in focus. You can do better!
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Sunset on 2023
January 1, 2024
This is my last photo for December: a timely goodbye to 2023, and my offering for Bushboy’s Last on the Card photo challenge.
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Unseasonable
December 21, 2023
Christmas music, fairy lights and – cherry blossom?
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Turning the tide
December 10, 2023
I was just in time to add my contribution to the December Poetry Challenge from Fake Flamenco. The challenge was to write using the Japanese form; dodoitsu.
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White-out on Black Down
December 1, 2023
The view from Hardy’s monument in Dorset is best known for its breath-taking panorama…
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Eyeballing the Moon
November 10, 2023
Not every Full Moon drops so neatly into the giant’s eye socket. Maybe he’s going to wake up…
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Ticking off September
October 6, 2023
Once again I take camera phone and laptop in hand to join in with Bushboy’s Last on the card photo challenge. Always a surprise…
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