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: quotes
Inspirational Quites
Do you sometimes come across a quote and think ‘yes, that’s exactly right.’? These aren’t those…. These are more likely to make you think ‘well, quite’. Those fluttery things at the ends of branches are called leaves because every year … Continue reading
Three Day Quote Challenge – Day Three
Judy at Edwina Episodes fingered me for this challenge and I’m at day three already. Let me leave you with my favourite comic genius, Douglas Adams and his sage words.
Three day quote challenge: day two
Judy at Edwina’s Episodes asked me to join this challenge and here we are, already at day two. I said, yesterday I wouldn’t nominate anyone I lied. I finger my brother, the Archaeologist who blogs at the Curious Archaeologist. Do … Continue reading
Three day quote challenge – day one
Judy at Edwina’s Episodes asked if I’d like to do a three day quote challenge. Yes, Judy, I’d love to. I’m not playing ball completely. I won’t post the ‘rules’, because I’m subversive like that. And I’m not really as … Continue reading
Christmas Travel
This is part of Colleen’s Writer’s Quote Wednesdays
Quotes and trees
This covers two prompts, both by Colleen at Silver Threading: Writer’s Quote Wednesday and Christmas trees from around the world – this being Surrey circa 1967 And then there was the time I took the fairy on the tree to … Continue reading
Straining for Life’s Meaning
Tom Lehrer was a genius; a scientist who was one of the wittiest and sharpest of satirical song writers of the 1960s. This quote comes from one of his best songs about nuclear Armageddon ‘We’ll all go together when we … Continue reading
A Question of Perspective #writer’squotewednesdays #bewow
Sometimes you just have to see things from the other person’s point of view; I learnt that from my dad who always held the other person’s point of view in his discussion with me. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy … Continue reading
And how shall it end?
This isn’t morbid, but rather a call to arms, not to allow age to be a barrier. It is from Roger McGough’s great poem of the same name Let me die a youngman’s death not a clean and inbetween the … Continue reading
Brothers – the Archaeologist and Me
This little piccy is part of Colleen’s Writer’s Quote Wednesday It isn’t exactly about writing inspiration but the Archaeologist never ceases to surprise me, and, like all older brothers, bother me. So in terms of writing inspiration, well, he has … Continue reading
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