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: miscellany
This Sporting Life: Turning The Tap
I was ten at the end of 1966 when something in me clicked. That need to find my own distinctive passion. It was conscious but I needed something. And while I can’t be totally sure, I think mum was behind … Continue reading
Posted in cricket, memories, miscellany, thought piece
Tagged cricket, memories, thought piece
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Hatched Or Dispatched? #blogbattle #writephoto
The house was derelict. The garden was a mess. No one remembered anyone living there. If anyone had checked with the Land Registry they would have been surprised that there was no registered owner. More to the point there was … Continue reading
Posted in #blogbattle, #writephoto, creative writing, fantasy, flash fiction, humour, miscellany
Tagged #writephoto, blog battle, creative writing, flash fiction, humour
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This Sporting Life
As readers will know, I’m something of a sporting aficionado, and it takes little to engross me in a sporting contest. I can pretty much identify the moment when I moved from indifference to all and every sport to a … Continue reading
Posted in memories, miscellany, sport
Tagged athletics, cricket, football, memories, sport
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The Garden June 2022
This time of year the garden seems to pause. The poppies are done and the dahlias still to arrive. Still you can make up you mind. Oh and yes we’ve allowed the lawn to grow out and the clover in … Continue reading
Seeing In Summer #99wordstories
This week’s #99wordstories prompt from the Carrot Ranch is June 27, 2022, prompt: In 99 words (no more, no less), write a story about swarms. What could swarm? How does the swarm impact the people or place in your story? … Continue reading
Damaging Civil Society Through Re-enactment #writephoto #littletittweaking
This week’s #writephoto prompt takes us off to Little Tittweaking unexpectedly… The Little Tittweaking Reenactment Society has been a hot bed for intrigue and unpleasantness. Its committee comprises three elderly rebarbative grandmothers, the jaundiced Nan King, the icy Nan Tucket … Continue reading
Posted in #writephoto, creative writing, humour, little Tittweaking, miscellany
Tagged #writephoto, creative writing, flash fiction, humour, little Tittweaking
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Translating Heroes #theatre
I saw a film in 1985 called Letter To Brezhnev. It was fairly popular but I doubt it travelled widely. It told of a romance between a Liverpudlian woman and Russian sailor and I might have imagined there would be … Continue reading
I Swear
As a child I was sheltered from the adult world in many ways. One part, to which I returned this week was swearing and what one might describe as Oaths, Ancient and Modern. During my primary school years, I became … Continue reading
Posted in family, memories, miscellany, thought piece
Tagged family, humour, Lenny Bruce, memories, swearing, thought piece
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A saucy postcard and a Limerick
As a child, I had a summer holiday every year at my Gran’s house on the north Kent coast at Herne Bay. It had all you could want as a holiday destination: a beach, albeit mostly made up of stones, … Continue reading
Posted in humour, limericks, miscellany, poems, poetry
Tagged humour, limericks, poem, poetry
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Wishing Yourself Free #99wordstories
The #99wordstories prompt from the Carrot Ranch this week is June 20, 2022, prompt: In 99 words (no more, no less), write a story about what freedom feels like. Whose point of view do you use? Does the idea of … Continue reading
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