The Sincerest For Of Poetry
Apprenticed To My Mother
Walking Into Trouble
Dead Flies and Sherry Trifle
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Salisbury Square
My Father and Other Liars
Life In A Conversation
Life, in a Grain of Sand
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Category Archives: gardening
That February Garden #february #garden
February can be a rather meah month for the garden, what with excess rain, some snow and mud… oh yes, mud. It can be a month for some structural work and there are always shoots of hope peeking through. And … Continue reading
Two Becomes One #shortfiction
They stopped the wheelchair to let him look along his arbour one last time, whispering in foggy ears for him to stir. He didn’t move and they turned, saddened at his incomprehension, but letting him have a private moment.He smiled … Continue reading
Posted in creative writing, gardening, life, love
Tagged creative writing, garden, life, love, memory
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The February Garden – A Bit Of Winter #garden #dog
We have had some proper winter here, at last with a smattering of snow and some frost, to add to the usual deluges. The colour has been green and brown with the odd pink hellebore and yellow crocus and witch … Continue reading
Another Year, Same Garden: January 2021 #garden #january2021
It’s been cold, wet, frosty, snowy, sunny and all shades in between. What it hasn’t been is warm. Definitely no global warming and yet we are seeing plants that, by rights should be dead, dormant or craving some sort of … Continue reading
December; The Garden Poised #wintergarden #garden
December and into January in the garden is a pause in all the action. Images repeat with hope pricking slowly through the cold hard soil. This poem I hope captures some of that pent up energy, twitching on the start … Continue reading
2020, One Heck Of A Year #garden #forwardlooking
Everyone suddenly burst out singing;And I was filled with such delightAs prisoned birds must find in freedom,Winging wildly across the whiteOrchards and dark-green fields; on – on – and out of sight. When the page turned and we headed into … Continue reading
Posted in gardening, thought, thought piece
Tagged 2020, dog, garden, in review, Siegfried Sassoon, thought piece
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That Garden Thing; December, part 1 #garden
It’s been mild; not warm and there’s been a fair bit of rain, but 12C isn’t going to frighten any aphids. So, we’ve finished the new shed and re-stained the summer house and cut back some of the mucky herbaceous … Continue reading
The Garden, As The Year Starts To Breathe Its Last #garden #2020 #november
November, even a mild one as we are having in Southern England, usually makes its winters credentials apparent, through mists and murky skies, and this has been no exception. The infrastructure projects have slowed: the new terracing is done, the … Continue reading
The Garden Thing – Halfway To That Bloody Beatles Song… #garden #november #2020
Autumn and its less than welcome cousin, so far as the gardener in me goes, winter are coming to stay and the signs are all there. It does allow for jobs to be undertaken, of course, which is a plus. … Continue reading
The Garden: October, Let Me Count The Ways (Plus Bonus Dog Piccies) #garden #october #update
I know, I know but I couldn’t resist this. The lawn is on an uptick. Sure there’s winter looming, alongside another lockdown which will mean perfect weather and lots of gardening, because that’s what nature does when those capricious gods … Continue reading
Posted in dogs, gardening, miscellany, pets
Tagged cats, dog, flowers, garden, lawn, october 2020, tikka
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