The Sincerest For Of Poetry
Apprenticed To My Mother
Walking Into Trouble
Dead Flies and Sherry Trifle
The Last Will Of Sven Andersen
Booms And Busts
Buster & Moo
Salisbury Square
My Father and Other Liars
Life In A Conversation
Life, in a Grain of Sand
Life In A Flash
Author Archives: TanGental
Singing Whats? When the Crawdad Chorus Has Its Moment In The Sun #Film review
I almost didn’t go. The reviews were pretty meah. I’d not read the book, even though it had had strong reviews. Maybe it was one of those transitions to the screen that don’t work. And then the timing. The start … Continue reading
Cool: Limerick
Buff Sixpack knew he was coolAs he posed in the gym and the pool;He thought his hot bodWould make girls think him god;Instead all they saw was a tool. Based On Esther’s prompt
Data, Damned Data and Statistics
Do you know who Caroline Criado Perez is? You should. I first came across her when she had a run in over the ten pound note with the Bank of England. something about the failure to replace a woman – … Continue reading
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Tagged book, Book review, Caroline criado perez, invisible women
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Celebrity Literature: Worth The Paper?
I can understand why publishers get all excited about books penned by people famous for not being writers. You don’t need to introduce them and they already have a ready public who might be intrigued enough to buy, even those … Continue reading
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Tagged Book review, bronski beat, comunards, Murder before Evensong, rev richard coles
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If You Are Lonely… #filmreview
… build a robot. That, at least was Brian’s solution in the newly released British Comedy, Brian and Charles. Why do we nationalise comedy? Are we so different, or just arrogant that our comedy is somehow better, more comedic than, … Continue reading
Recluse On The Loose#carrotranch #littletittweaking
This week, prompted by the Carrot Ranch we visit Little Tittweaking to meet two spinsters, seeking solitude August 1, 2022, prompt: Write a story that features someplace remote in 99 words (no more, no less). It can be a wild … Continue reading
Week Thirty: 2022
I’ve started this on Friday. The Euro final is on Sunday. England v Germany. Groan. As someone once said. Football is a simple game of eleven v eleven, one ball, two halves and the Germans win on penalties. Above all … Continue reading
July Garden: Dust Bowl Dulwich
It’s sad when the weather buggers you about. Eight weeks ago we were looking green and pleasant, all very micro Jerusalem. Then the rain buggers off to Oz, the heat is turned up to gas marked 10, my budding tomatoes … Continue reading
Fishy, Dead Fishy #writephoto
This weeks prompt for #writephoto is this Fishy, Dead Fishy Doug Deep and Pete Bogge enjoyed their Sundays away from their wives. They spent many happy hours at Little Tittweaking’s artificial lake, Loch Smithe, casting their lines in the hope … Continue reading
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Tagged #writephoto, creative writing, flash fiction, humour, little Tittweaking
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That Limerick Time
A comic, when young and quite greenThought nothing of being obscene;But a life so spleneticCan become quite frenetic.Sadly his act is now clean.
TanGental 