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: dogs
Dog tired, I need a cat nap.
We had a dog when I was small. A pedigree boxer we called Punch but whose ridiculous kennel club name was Punchenello Tillingdown. He was a beast of a dog with a head the size of an asteroid and crafted … Continue reading
Posted in flash fiction, miscellany, pets, writing
Tagged cats, Charli Mill's prompt, creative writing, dogs, flash fiction, pets, writing
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My green and pleasant land
I was brought up, in those formative years between 11 and 18 in a New Forest Cottage. When mum sold in 2006, she moved into a small local town and that was my last real contact with life in the … Continue reading
The Numbers Game
I seem to hang on to numbers. Names melt like butter in the sun, faces fade quicker than a 1980 fax (sorry for you youngsters; a cultural allusion, like Vesta Curry and Stay Press – you’ll have to ask Dr … Continue reading
Posted in families, memoires, miscellany
Tagged cars, Caterham, dogs, family, numbers, Vesta Curry
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The Year of the Cat
I was thirty in 1986. End of November. Some of you will remember it, some think of it as ancient history. Turning thirty is a watershed for some but I’ve always been a bit ‘meah’ about these so called important … Continue reading
Posted in gardening, London, memoires, miscellany
Tagged 1986, cats, dogs, memories, pets, The Year of the cat
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Dogs
They seem to be a bit of a theme, given I’ve just posted the start of my novel in posts that is inspired by dogs. A while back I wrote this poem, having watched my then dog Blitz do his … Continue reading
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