December 1932 Clouds scudded through Berlin skies. Seated on a bench in the Tiergarten, Ilse and me, just looking at the sky together. “Do you see the cloud there?” She asked, “that one!” She pointed almost above our heads….
I need to unlock myself. I need the writing to flow again as it did two weeks ago. I am beginning to understand “writer’s block”. Before, not writing was just due to inertia. Laziness. Busyness. An absence of any reason…
Barquing up the Right Tree When I was eight, I painted a moonlit scene using watercolours and gouache. A ship, becalmed. The moon lying huge on the horizon, its reflection linking ship and moon like the silvered undulating road between…
So who says I don’t get comments? So many of them are just pure spam, people looking to sell plugins and telling me off for my naivety – hell, I really don’t care if my posts are forgotten, ignored, not…
You Decide….. I have disinterred around a hundred pages of my poems going back centuries…I have always been shy about my poetry. Occasionally to test it out, I have sent various poems to poetry websites and some have appeared in…
Hello dear colleagues and ex colleagues. Instead of my hysterical satirical blog, here is the sad and lonely History of the Failure of the Workload Challenge and my participation in it. Read how Nicky Morgan and I were like THAT;…
Heathrow NO NO NO go Heathrow! The roaring at my window – My morning hello – Your beasts with their cargo – All in a bloody row… NO GO, Heathrow! And you with your Duty Free! Your duty Is to…
Flash Fiction is a Short Story in either 100 or 500 words. Here is a 500 word tale, based on a very real story. (See http://www.flash500.com/index.html) 31 Years She had worked for the Council for 31 years and on her last…
Warning: this episode is written as a sex blog. If you are likely to be offended, please read on. This work of so-called fiction includes a satirical portrait of the writer, so if you have been offended by previous episodes…
Note: for people who may be of a classical turn of mind, this chapter is written as Baroque Opera. The set: think Pirates of the Caribbean; think Johnny Depp…a large and sea-stained galleon, hawsers securing this hulk awkwardly to a…