Image – bigphotophoria The temperature today is predicted to reach 26 degrees and there is a Beach Alert for high waves, rip tides, fierce undertow. You are advised not to swim unless you have gills fins and are in fact…
The Head Every attempt has been made to remove me from food. I arrived at Heathrow and did all the snake thing – start at the head, worked my way into the belly. (Eventually I will emerge at the tail…
(Post Trump Stress Disorder) A Facebook History of History Posts from my Facebook friends – and some of mine, too. This is a picture of the end of a horrifying night….. I wish I had the technical skill to show…
Map courtesy of the Guardian 7/10/16 ELECTION DAY Musing on Election mourning (beware – it’s pun time!) Don’t predict anything! The blokie on the Today programme has just said.HC has a 4% lead in the polls. Well, pre-Brexit polls misled…
WHO ARE YOU CALLING AN IDIOT? Like so many of my fellow idiots, I have been held like a rabbit in headlights by the incredible (literally) buildup to the US election. Why “idiots”? Well, most British simply shrug and say,…
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…