My Lewes weekend apple harvest
My little apple tree has been a source of pleasure all year and this weekend its season reached its climax with an unusually large amount of bright red fruit ready for picking here in my Lewes, UK, garden. This is…
My little apple tree has been a source of pleasure all year and this weekend its season reached its climax with an unusually large amount of bright red fruit ready for picking here in my Lewes, UK, garden. This is…
Barrack Obama I wrote yesterday about my recovery from political depression after the British General Election in May this year. I’ve kept my thoughts to myself about politicians ever since but, if I’m going to talk about the new…
That day in May 2015 seems such a long time ago – do you remember all those hopes, fears, wild predictions and, yes, cynical sneers? Well, I do. I remember writing enthusiastically about what could be and I…
Yep, after all that sunshine here in Lewes, UK, things changed…..but remember…. …rain has its charms and, anyway… …every time it rains, don’t run under a train or anything like that, it’s time to sit…
The lively online writers’ community, Virtual Writers, has asked me to do a questions and answers session about my novel Stephen Dearsley’s Summer Of Love (published by Ward Wood Publishing). It was enjoyable thinking back over the time when…
A lot of people here in Sussex feel shaken by the horrific air-crash on the A27 road at Shoreham yesterday. So far the police have confirmed seven deaths after a plane attempting a loop at the annual Shoreham Airshow crashed…
Wolfgang Glinka in On Gloucester Road My prose poem, On Gloucester Road, has had an interesting life so far. I wrote it after being contacted with the Moscow-based American publisher, Marco North who was compiling an anthology and asked…
Piotr Ilych Tchaikovsky (1840 – 1893) My three new Fibonacci poems about the Russian composer Piotr Ilych Tchaikovsky (1840 – 1893) were published yesterday in that pioneering and Fibonacci-dedicated online journal, The Fib Review. I hope you’ll take a…
You could say it was only a church service but it was more than that. You could say it was just about a wedding service but it was more than that. You could say it was just a lot of…