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: food
How Not To
I like cooking. I like to think I’m not bad at it. But the machinery around cooking is, perhaps, a different bucket of eels…
That Meal: A Poem
If I close my eyes I visualise How I metabolise Those pork pies And crunchy fries Frankly it’s pretty disgusting…
Week Five: 2022
I’ve been running around rabbit holes this week. I blame David. He may be a friend but he got me thinking about the story of how my grandparents – mum’s mum and dad – came to marry. I will write … Continue reading
Posted in families, history, miscellany
Tagged 2022, family, focaccia, food, history, Percy Francis
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The University Years: Breakfast And The Difficulty Of Stalking #1975 #bristoluniversity
I arrived at Bristol University with a spitspot Mary Poppins determination to be supercalifragalisticexpialidocious but things never quite work out as you anticipate. I’m trying to find my feet in my Hall of Residence but the rules and impenetrable protocols … Continue reading
Posted in Bristol, humour, memories, miscellany, university
Tagged 1975, Bristol, Churchill Hall, food, rules, university
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Dubious about Dubai – day 3 #travel #Dubai
Ok so three days in Dubai is no way to judge a place. But you do gather impressions. This is a place that’s uninhibited in its excess and only limited by its overall size, the need to import everything, few … Continue reading
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Tagged desert, dubai, food, museum, quad bikes, thoughts, travel
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When I was nine…
… I loved the rain, real pouring, can’t see your feet from the splashing rain. I would walk up the gutters letting my shoes fill with water until the socks slip-slid inside and imagined floating on the surface of the … Continue reading
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