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: cats
How Cat Burglars Got Their Name
My daughter the Vet and her better half have a cat. Bozzy. He’s a big boy and likes a bit of a tussle. Sadly he also has feline HIV so fighting isn’t good for all sorts of reasons. Being the … Continue reading
Week Forty-One: 2022
The temperatures in London have been bonkers, more like May. The garden can’t understand and if this goes on much longer we will be mowing the lawn throughout the whole year. At least it’s keeping the heating bills down. And … Continue reading
Posted in 2022, London, miscellany, thought piece
Tagged 2022, bank of england, bracken house, cats, guildhall, London, the world reimagined, thought piece
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Pandering #oldladies #cats
I’ve talked about our ancient cat, Nutmeg, who passed her 25th birthday this summer. She’s still mobile, still eats heartily and still detests the new interloper, Tipsy with the passion of the slighted Dowager. However, her hips are stiffer than … 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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Tikka 1997-2020 #happycat #queenofsquawks
In September 1997 our then cleaner, knowing we’d recently lost one of our two cats, asked if we’d like a kitten to replace him. The children were keen so… we went to see the litter. There were two left. So … Continue reading
May Garden: A Half Month Report And An Anniversary #garden #springcolour
Yes, it’s been fab, here in South London. Lockdown means lots more time to improve all aspects. I’ve even had the time to follow a short video on how to make a cold frame from an old pallet – we … Continue reading
My first cat – 1st December 1986
Yesterday I was thirty. I’m hungover and have just waved my wife off to the airport. I will be on my own for a month, the longest we’ve been apart in seven years. ‘Come over,’ say friends. ‘We’ve got you … Continue reading
Feline Lives
I write a lot about Dog; it’s natural. He and I are close. Perhaps too close. But Dog is merely the latest in a long line of family pets. Currently we have two twin sister cats: Nutmeg And Tikka. They … Continue reading
The Lore of Cats #flashfiction #shortstory
We were a dog family. Definitely. Never was a cat mentioned; indeed we didn’t really know anyone who gave a home to a cat. Then I went to University, following the Archaeologist and blow me if, when I returned after … Continue reading
Posted in miscellany, prompt
Tagged Carrot Ranch Congress of Rough Writers, cats, Charli Mill's prompt, dad's poems, poem, poetry
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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
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