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New EU law prohibiting products made with forced labour published in EU Official Journal today
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Regulation - EU - 2024/3015 - EN - EUR-LexLog inEnglish
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December 12, 2024 at 6:21 AM
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Sadly Article 49 TEU reserves EU membership to "European State[s]" 🇨🇦🇪🇺
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March 11, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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EU decision extending Schengen fully to Romania and Bulgaria from 1 January now published in EU Official Journal - eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-conten...
Decision - EU - 2024/3212 - EN - EUR-LexLog inEnglish
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December 23, 2024 at 12:12 PM
shinobazupond.bsky.social
A lost glove
in a railway carriage –
scent of cinders and steam.

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A Lost Glove
Leaf 308 – Reflections   Patrick O'Brien - Night Steam at Bristol Temple Meads (1964) When haiku meets film noir … Strangers passing in ...
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March 2, 2026 at 3:17 AM
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Walking in the wood,
cool earth beneath
my bare feet.

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A Walk in the Woods
Leaf 263 – Reflections   Alexandra Buckle - Summer Tree Glow (2019) Nature has a special way of awakening all the senses.     Walk...
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January 6, 2026 at 4:30 AM
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Carbon copy –
my name fading
in triplicate.

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Carbon Copy
Leaf 377 – Reflections   Leonid Pasternak - Boris Pasternak Writing (1919) White. Yellow. Pink. Green. [Indigo]     Carbon copy – ...
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May 3, 2026 at 9:09 AM
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Eclipsing the lamplight
umbrellas emerging
with the evening rain.

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Umbrellas Emerging
Leaf 350 – Art Inspired   Kishio Koizumi - Yanagi Bridge in Night Rain No.29 (1935) A haiku inspired by Kishio Koizumi’s ‘Yanagi Bridge ...
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April 6, 2026 at 11:15 AM
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At the Immigration Office –
sitting reading
Robinson Crusoe.

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Robinson Crusoe
Leaf 384 – Looking Back   I first read Daniel Defoe’s ‘Robinson Crusoe’ (1719) when I was fifteen years old. Nearing fifty last year, I ...
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May 10, 2026 at 2:51 PM
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Leap-frogging lily pads,
leafy stepping stones
– painted and real.

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first in a sequence of #linkedverse
Still Waters
Leaf 152 – Art Inspired   Claude Monet - Bridge over a Pond of Water Lilies (1899) The Met There is perhaps a little-known connection be...
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September 17, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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Keeping quiet –
a single silver strand
seen in your hair.

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Silver Strand
Leaf 376 – Reflections   Sarah Ross Thompson - Tall Shadows Beauty is (very definitely) in the eye of the beholder.     Keeping qu...
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May 3, 2026 at 9:06 AM
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Sitting on the train,
desperately trying
not to have a haiku moment.

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Haiku Moment
Leaf 277 – Senryu (or witty, tom-foolery)   Spirited Away (2001) Studio Ghibli ‘Haiku Moments,’ as they are commonly referred to, often ...
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January 20, 2026 at 12:41 AM
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Yes, the EU has a mutual defense clause:
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Mutual defence clause - EUR-LexLog inEnglish
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January 25, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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EU sanctions governor of penal colony where Navalny died, and Russian govt official in charge of prison policy, on human rights grounds - eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-conten...
Implementing regulation - EU - 2025/345 - EN - EUR-LexLog inEnglish
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February 19, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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Salty skin and
sandy hair –
beachcombing.

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Beachcombing
Leaf 242 – Looking Back   Sarah Evans - Rhossili Beach Another poem recalling childhood summers spent by the sea …     Salty skin ...
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December 16, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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Old rag
and turpentine
by an empty easel.

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Old Rag
Loose Leaves – Art Inspired   Arnold Newman - Jackson Pollock (1949) Another late addition to my previous poems on Pollock … (see also, ...
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September 29, 2026 at 12:27 PM
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New EU laws published in the EU Official Journal today

- changes to company law/capital markets law

- European disability card/European parking card for people with disabilities

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Official Journal L series daily view - EUR-LexLog inEnglish
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November 14, 2024 at 10:48 AM
shinobazupond.bsky.social
Last desk lamp
in the library
winks out.

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Last Lamp
Leaf 400 – Looking Back   M.C. Escher - Never Think Before You Act (1921) Closing the ledger of ‘400 Leaves’ …     Last desk lamp ...
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May 25, 2026 at 5:02 AM
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This is indeed legal nonsense - you can find the 90/180 day rule in Art 4 of the EU's visa list Regulation, with no suggestion that it's a minimum standard - eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2018...
June 4, 2025 at 7:12 AM
shinobazupond.bsky.social
A slight change
in the wind
sends clouds our way.

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Change in the Wind
Leaf 247 – Reflections   Rowland Hilder - Winter Landscape Fate and fortune often seem elemental ...     A slight change in the wi...
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December 22, 2025 at 1:11 AM
philoophiloo.bsky.social
Pas si mal. Même si par moment pas si bien #InEnglish #PointApostrophe
February 25, 2025 at 2:53 PM
shinobazupond.bsky.social
Birds feasting
on sunflower seeds
– the day brightens.

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Sunflower Seeds
Leaf 239 – Reflections   Andrew Wyeth - Sunflowers (c.1982) I think this very simple poem speaks for itself …     Birds feasting o...
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December 14, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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West wind shepherding
rose-coloured clouds
at dawn.

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Rosy-Fingered Dawn
Leaf 164 – Reflections   This haiku was probably written with an unconscious allusion to the ancient Greek poet, Homer, in mind (see als...
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September 29, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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Très très bien. Avec des aristos. Du cul. De l'humour. De la noirceur aussi à l'intérieur. #PointApostrophe #InEnglish
August 25, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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EU trade law - extra tariffs on some Russian and Belarussian products as new EU law published in EU Official Journal - eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-conten...

As this is trade law, not foreign policy, Hungary's vote against could not veto it: data.consilium.europa.eu/doc/document...
Regulation - EU - 2025/1227 - EN - EUR-LexLog inEnglish
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June 20, 2025 at 6:28 AM
shinobazupond.bsky.social
Blue period –
cutting down
a larger canvas.

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Blue Period
Leaf 189 – Art Inspired   Norman Rockwell - The Connoisseur (1962) I often wonder if there is a greater art in the elaborate speculation...
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October 24, 2025 at 3:47 PM