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
Tag Archives: 2022
Week Thirty-Seven 2022
As readers will know, part of this past week has been spent in Italy and, in particular Venice. The best part by far was spending time with my old colleagues, reminiscing, arguing about this and that and speculating on the … Continue reading
Week Thirty-Six: 2022 – Just One Last Thing
This week has been about the Quilt show, one way or another, so I thought I’d finish with this. It’s a twelve foot square panel that had to be laid on the lawn and was tricky to photograph. Can you … Continue reading
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Tagged 2022, Dulwich, garden, quilts, thought piece
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The First Half Of September Or A September Of Two Halves #garden
We started in drought and have moved into soggy saturation. Almost. Dust bowls have gone, replaced by forests of grass and a revived set of sunflowers, straw flowers and, well, pretty much every flower. There’s been a fair bit of … Continue reading
Week Thirty-Five : 2022
Well that was a week of 2 halves. I was sitting in my seat at the Oval cricket ground watching the rain pulse down when the news began to filter through of the Queen’s failing health. By the time play … Continue reading
Week Thirty-Four: 2022
We ended the week in Suffolk, spending time around Southwold and enjoying the sea and the sunshine. Everywhere is as parched as London, though as with my apples at home, this year’s fruit crops seem to be excellent. The blackberries … Continue reading
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Tagged 2022, dog, Southwold, Suffolk, thought piece, tipsy
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Week Thirty-Three: 2022
I think this year is going to be a good year for apples. We have a magnificent bramley which gives us, in a good year, about 800 apples plus two eaters. These haven’t been great croppers over the last five … Continue reading
Week Thirty-Two: 2022
We entered the week feeling grotty. Nothing on the LTFs but still the symptoms felt more covidy than cold. We may never know. Anyway, by Monday, I was feeling more perky, so much so that I dragged out the vacuum. … Continue reading
Week Thirty-Two: 2022
It’s been a grotty end to the week. I’ve been coping with some sort of summer cold which, coupled with the heat has led to some very uncomfortable days and nights. I took a lateral flow but no evidence of … Continue reading
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Tagged 2022, Coldplay, cricket, strikes, thought piece
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Week Thirty-One: 2022
Even the weather man shrugged when asked about rain… nope, nothing. We have had our first drought restriction this week, in southern England banning hosepipes. It’s likely it will extend to us soon enough. Everyone who is old enough casts … 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
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