Category Archives: families

Poetry Readathon #robbiecheadle

Posted on Nov 17, 2019 by

Robbie Cheadle kindly invited me to be part of her Poetry Readathon. In it I share two poems I wrote early in my poetry writing career one of which I updated and read at my daughter’s wedding this August. Please … Continue reading →

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Life As A Controlled Experiment #thought #humour #family

Posted on Jan 17, 2019 by

Simple Simms taught me chemistry from age eleven to fifteen. He was keen, distracted, had a boyish face and somehow controlled the class by the gob smacking way he would ignore any semblance of health and safety. When Trillo, a … Continue reading →

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Parenting – Winning The War Or At Least Losing Gracefully

Posted on Jul 19, 2018 by

A parenting lesson, which a conversation today brought back to me and which I thought I’d share. Back in 1998 when we visited friends in Bahrain, the Lawyer, aged 8, was heavily into Pokémon – the soft toys, the cards and … Continue reading →

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Dog Gone (To Pot)

Posted on Apr 16, 2018 by

Blogger Barb Taub had a dog/drug experience recently which triggered a buried memory. Now it’s bubbled to the surface, I think it is time I confessed My name is Geoff and I drugged my dog We need to go back … Continue reading →

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Flattened

Posted on Mar 13, 2018 by

My earliest recorded escape from death involved an oak tree, a rope ladder and the Archaeologist’s small but determined arse. At the time, about 1964, we lived high on the hills of north Surrey, in a semi detached house of … Continue reading →

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J is for Jumble Sales #atozchallenge

Posted on Apr 12, 2017 by

For the last two years I’ve joined in the #atozchallenge, namely to post every weekday in April using each letter of the alphabet in turn. In 2015 it was places I’d been to, in 2016 it was London themed. This … Continue reading →

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A is for Auction #atozchallenge

Posted on Apr 1, 2017 by

For the last two years I’ve joined in the #atozchallenge, namely to post every weekday in April using each letter of the alphabet in turn. In 2015 it was places I’d been to, in 2016 it was London themed. This … Continue reading →

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