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
Category Archives: Animals
Punch #dog #memory
Funny old world. I was with the Vet and the Pest Controller who were looking at a house they might buy and we passed a dog. A boxer. I’d fallen behind them – for some reason I’d felt the urge … Continue reading
Equine Ambivalence
The other day I wrote a post that included a picture of a horse. Someone saw it and expressed a certain concern, wondering if it was happy. It does have notes of eeyore about him. But I was ambivalent, I … Continue reading
A Time in Africa – Part two #travel #memoir #africa
In part one we were in Tanzania and we had had a wonderful time; our guide, Moses took us to the Kenya border to meet our Kenyan guide. Once again I’m not sure I remember his name correctly but it … Continue reading
Posted in africa, Animals, holidays, miscellany, Photograph, wildlife
Tagged africa, Kenya, masa, serengeti, wildlife
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A Time In Africa – part one #memoirs #africa #Safari
In 1988, I had turned 30, been married 4 years and been a partner in my law firm 12 months. The Textiliste and I had undertaken a rather crazy project of refurbishing a house in Herne Hill, South London which, … Continue reading
Posted in Animals, memories, miscellany, Photograph, travel
Tagged holiday, humour, Kenya, Tanzania, travel
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Buster & Moo – an update #amwriting #novel
‘The rehomer led in a stocky, predominantly white male. On his ears and flank he had large brown patches. “The brindle one has kennel cough so unless you really wanted to wait for her, I thought I’d bring the next … Continue reading
Posted in Animals, Books, Buster and Moo, creative writing, novel in instalments, novels, pets, writing
Tagged #amwriting, Buster & Moo, editing, novel, progress, publishing
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Top 10 Lessons from 2016 #Caninephilosophy
1. If you leave it out it will get eaten. 2. Brexit means little if there’s no chicken left. 3. If humans adopted a dog’s approach to greeting another, by checking out each other’s arses, they’d know, early on, which … Continue reading
Posted in Animals, family, humour, miscellany
Tagged 2016, dog's life, humour, philosophy
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Big Brown Dog – For Charli
October 5, 2016 prompt: In 99 words (no more, no less) write a story about a Big Brown Dog. I just want to read Big Brown Dog stories this week. I know dogs arn’t everyone’s cup of tea, but you … Continue reading
Posted in Animals, flash fiction
Tagged boxers, Carrot Ranch Congress of Rough Writers, Charli Mills, dog show, flash fiction, humour
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Grief that first time
Sometimes, amongst the flippancy and frivolity, there’s different emotion lurking. Sacha Black offers prompts weekly at Writespiration This week it is Write about a nostalgia that hurts in less than 200 words
Posted in Animals, family, memories
Tagged dog, nostalgia, punch, Sacha Black, writespiration
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Re imagining the Olympics
I live in London, close but not too close to the smoking sink of sin that is the City. We have a decent sized garden (actually bloody huge for around here). And we have wildlife. Once a hedgehog crossed the … Continue reading
Heard the one about…?
There’s a thing going around. Not one of those snot-dribbly chest-like-an-out-of-date-yoghurt-carton thingummies but a fad. Or maybe a fab. I’m feeling emotionally dyslexic today – or toady. Yes that’s it I’m feeling toady. Anyhoos Judy Martin started it here with … Continue reading
