Cherrypicked stories

As Autumn turns to Winter's chill, forest hunger draws us where fallen dead leaves scrunch beneath boots. Whispered breath of timid deer in brushwood...

The porridge crew, myself, Alun, Gaving Hestfuhrer and the mainland knnning took our seats. Igor, the boatman’s hunchback assistant had kindly agreed...

Frenetic at times - Image from Pixabay

My own drawing of "The Thing" :)

In the neap tide lane near Rejerrah, close to dark as we travel, a March full moon rises to conquer the landscape. And an unbidden hawk decides to...

My Village School Often I look at my infancy seeking out the treasures of fancy the way I had begun to be one to learn a lesson and the prior period...

Dear diary...poem about discovering a bird with a broken wing in a storm, on St Pete's Beach in Florida back in the early 90s. I recount brief...

The sun stretches it’s way across the living room, long shadows reaching out to say good morning, the kettle clicks, boiled. Steam gently rising,...

A film is in production based on the life of Lee Miller, fashion model and war photographer. It will be terrible, although it should be brilliant given the subject matter. Anyway, I wrote this: written quasi-ekphrastically about a number of Miller-taken photographs and one of Miller taken by someone else. Anyway, for once, I've explained one. Image source wikimedia, licence CC-by SA 4.0