Election Daydreams….
…Read More…: Election Daydreams….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 millions into thinking we would stay in Europe. It’s about the Hispanics in some states…
THE US ELECTION – AN IDIOT’S GUIDE AND COMPANION
…Read More…: THE US ELECTION – AN IDIOT’S GUIDE AND COMPANIONWHO 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, what’s it got to do with me? There’s nothing I can do about it and…
A Short Story that Isn’t…
…Read More…: A Short Story that Isn’t…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 to write. Block is different. It is all of the above plus the heavy fog…
A Beautiful Sail…
…Read More…: A Beautiful Sail…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 birth and eternity. In my memory the picture is perfect…and when my art teacher (Her…
Spam Nation
…Read More…: Spam NationSo 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 massively reviewed or shared. I have loyal readers and I am really sorry if I…
Poetry Inundation – Trash and Treasure
…Read More…: Poetry Inundation – Trash and TreasureYou 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 printed collections. I was even awarded first prize in a Forward Poetry competition (I can’t…
TEACHER WORKLOAD – the correspondence!
…Read More…: TEACHER WORKLOAD – the correspondence!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; how the good intentions of the civil servants in the DFEE were undermined by politics;…
Heathrow – No Go
…Read More…: Heathrow – No GoHeathrow 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 free me.