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: dog
Oh Dog…
I was looking for a video clip of something completely different and went down a rabbit hole, chasing Dog. These are what I found…
The Garden: January 2022
No one’s garden, at least this far up the Northern Hemisphere, looks any good in January. There’s a bit of green, a lot of bare patches and an unconscionable amount of cleaning up to do. That latter has kept us … Continue reading
Dinner For Two
I felt a bit cooky yesterday. I have this thing about trying hard not to waste anything so some meals tend to involve whats in the fridge, freezer or cupboards. Dog was sceptical. Yesterday that was a roll of puff … Continue reading
Dog At Christmas
For those who need their Dog fix, and as a small memory of Sue Vincent and her delightful poems about her dog, Ani, I reprise here a poem and pictures I did for her… A little something Dog penned for … Continue reading
Gardens, Post Apocalypse
A bit of an exaggeration this, but it has rained and blown rather a lot so the autumn clear up which we’ve been holding off is now underway. Gone are the remnant of some of the cosmos and helicrysums and … Continue reading
October 28th That Garden Thing
Lots of debate here about the next year. The wedding planning meant the garden became a beast, delightful though it was and the overarching ideas to reduce the workload going forward were postponed for a year. That said we rather … Continue reading
The Garden, October 11th – A Study In Colour
It may officially be autumn and the sedums and the cherry trees are colouring as expected for this season but the flower beds, given our Indian summer (am I allowed to use that expression still?) are still in full show … Continue reading
Purbeck, Purrfect
The Isle of Purbeck isn’t actually an island, it’s a peninsula. Typical really for us to misdescribe it in its current form. Like calling instant coffee, coffee. Once maybe a coffee bean was involved but by the time it’s reached … Continue reading
W Minus One #wedding
I’m not sure when the next post will be as tomorrow is the big… BIG day. One difficult decision, but one which was inevitable, was to send Dog on a playdate with a close friend. He’d overdo it if he … Continue reading
The Garden, One Week To You Know What garden #weddingpreparations
By now you’re on tenterhooks, whatever those instruments of torture are, alongside me. Seven days and of yesterday and whisper it in the darkest most sound absorbent corners, it’s looking… Oh, you decide. Here’s a gallery of shots from the … Continue reading
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