I know, it’s a disgrace isn’t it! That beer bottle on my desk. I don’t care though. I bashed my head in the downstairs cupboard last weekend and, because I am still recovering from my brain haemorrhage (God, he isn’t…
It was my birthday last weekend and someone gave me a strange present. she must have known me well because, I know some of you will think a coffee grinder? but not an electric one? I was delighted though because…
I heard that a really cool guy had been visiting Manchester, England, England, yesterday so I switched on my television to see him. It wasn’t rapper LL Cool, even though he is considerably cooler than his number one critic Sarah…
I have been looking over some of my older poems recently and this one caught my eye. It is an early attempt at writing a Shakespearean sonnet. No immodest comparisons here I promise, more an attempt as using a traditional…
I know it looks pretty enough out there in my garden here in Lewes in England but I am not happy about it. It has been a difficult year for gardening in these parts. I set out, back there in…
Here is a poem called Lazy. I wrote it in 2009. It is very short and it was published on the First of March this year in The Shot Glass Journal: Just because it is short doesn’t…
It is my birthday this weekend and I shall be busy forcing myself to celebrate another year gone…no, I don’t mean that, celebrating another year of life – I shall make sure I enjoy myself and mark the event –…
Just in case any of my readers thought I was exaggerating the other day about my early morning martial arts practice being taken over by the very friendly new cat on the block. Here is photograpic evidence from this morning’s…
I just had to go and grab my camera after my taichi practice in the garden here in Lewes, England, this morning. One of the many good things about challenging the stay-in-bed in me, is the early morning dew on…
Early morning taichi has become more difficut in my garden these days since the arrival of our new neighbours, well they are a few houses away but we are a close-knit bunch here in Lewes in the UK and our…