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: walking
There Yet: A Poem
I moaned, as a child If made to go on a walk. ‘It’s good for you,’ he’d say. As if I cared. Those miles, Wasted space in a day. Each step a trial Each foot a mile. Pointless to ask, … 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
Lambeth To St Pancras
A couple of weeks ago I posted about a walk I’d planned for some friends and trialled. On Wednesday, before I gave into my sporting addiction and suffered my way through 120 minutes of football we undertook the walk. I … Continue reading
Wandering Curios #walks #london
The other day I prepped a walk for some old friends around some of the waterways and green spaces of London. Yesterday was that day and it was sunny and lovely and everyone turned up. The thing about this city, … Continue reading
Posted in London, miscellany, walking
Tagged banquetting house, giro memorial, green ark, hyde park, London, millicent fawcett, Regents Canal, regents oark, Shand elephants, walking
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St Pancras To Westminster
A few friends wanted me to organise a walk or two around town so clutching my edition of London Oddities, a notebook and Google I headed off. I thought I’d share a few highlights of my first scouting for boys … Continue reading
Posted in London, walking
Tagged London, Mary Wolstencroft, parks, Regents Canal, st Pancras, walking, Westminster
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Travel Challenge – The Results, Day Eight
You kindly followed me through ten days of travel pictures, guessing where each one might be. I thought I’d put you out of your collective miseries/make you punch the air with a ‘Yes, I was right’ with a follow up. … Continue reading
A Fine Surrey White
I’ve been walking with a few of my former law colleagues for a few years now, usually twice or three times a year. This Year of the Turnip has put paid to most of that (we had grand plans to … Continue reading
Posted in Friends, miscellany, walking
Tagged boxhill, denbies wine, Friends, ranmore common, walking
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Going For Pembroke: Day Three, The Crab And Bromance Edition
Our last full day disproved any ‘Wet Wales’ preconceptions we may have held. A day off the physical punishment was allowed, even if the Vet did her own thing. Having watched a minute of her routine (what’s routine about such … Continue reading
Posted in family, holidays, miscellany, Wales
Tagged family, holidays, pembrokeshire, Wales, walking
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Going Pembroke: Tiny Wales
Day two and a longish drive after exercise with the Vet (legs bums and tums plus a cheeky cardio and abs finisher). Cheeky being apposite because at some point during the session my right buttock began deflating, and the abs … Continue reading
Posted in family, holidays, miscellany, Wales
Tagged family, holiday, Pembrokeshire coastal path, st David’s, Wales, walking
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Advice To A Young Man #advice #parental advice #poem #poetry
My father and I undertook several annual walks with friends. These were usually a week, sometimes longer and took in some of the great long distance footpaths England, Wales and Scotland has to offer. We saw some gorgeous parts of … Continue reading
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