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: skiing
Week Ten: 2022
When I started this post, I was planning on going skiing, flying out on Saturday. However to enter France and ski I need to be triple vaccinated (tick) and swear that I have not been in contact with someone who … Continue reading
Posted in 2022, dog, gardening, miscellany, thought piece
Tagged 2022, dog, garden, skiing, thoughts
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Week Eight: 2022
In February 2020, I was about to go skiing, vaguely aware of some new flu type bug in China and believing the only major issue confronting us was the afters of Brexit. How small and parochial that seems now. I’ve … Continue reading
Posted in 2022, miscellany, thought piece
Tagged 2022, pottering v ruminating, skiing, thought piece, Twickenham, ukraine
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Gotta New Motor
It’s rather incredible to me that someone with the money to buy a Lamborghini does not have the sense to avoid somewhere covered in snow. Today, a rather murky sort of day it has to be admitted, I was pulling … Continue reading
Posted in creative writing, flash fiction, holidays, humour, miscellany
Tagged cars, humour, short story, skiing, snow, stupidity
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Drawing A Snow Line Under The Day
I’m skiing. In Italy. In the shadow of the Matterhorn. Cervinia, which apparently is ‘Matterhorn’ for the locals and the town, originally Breuil, was renamed by Mussolini…. but I digress. I’m with six friends, a small hand-picked elite of post … Continue reading
Slipping Down the Slopes #travel #skiing
Day One Funny this skiing lark. You travel miles to obscure valleys and mountains that clever engineers have criss-crossed with wires and metal stanchions. You put on clothes in colours normally seen in Farrow and Ball paint charts (pistachio … Continue reading
Taking to the piste
I’m skiing so not really blogging. But, you know, I can’t really not. You understand. It’s just a space I have to fill. How drab would so many lives be if I stopped?! So what’s happened, here in Austria? Day … Continue reading
Neutered by technology
I have been in the south of France for a few days. Skiing. Poor me, eh? This was a long arranged dad’s and daughters trip (the inappropriately named ‘Double Dees’, using a friend’s house just outside Bourg St Martin. We skied … Continue reading
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