Autobiography

Words never to be spoken

These words, are for you, mother. They are left in the hope that once given form, they will cease to haunt me. I know not if this is an act of mercy...
Cherry

Boxes

There are two boxes in my attic. It is so gloomy I can’t make out where the walls are, but the space around me speaks of vastness; my footsteps echo...

Leggings – The 3 P's

A week of highlights and let downs, and which is mixed with mini-panics...

Leggings – How does the Shah claim to own the UK?

I was in a kind of turmoil, did I believe this or not? The room was empty.

I wish I had more time to rhyme

I wish I had more time to rhyme It’s been an age Since I’ve put words to page Since I’ve had time to rhyme Since my life Has had the semblance of: My...
Cherry

No, You Said

No, you said. Speak now. Every day. We can fix this. Can't get rid of me that easy. No rest for the wicked means no sleep. Seeds of doubt long buried...

Leggings: Dysentery, old stores from previous wars (hidden).

...........He wasn't sure about what was dangerous and what was not. He lived in his own Great-coat most of the time. I rarely saw him without it on.....
Cherry

Mary Jane in a Bottle

Mary Jane make me sleepy come and put my mind at ease three sweet drops make me cozy dig a hole and pour me in let me sleep in fields of clover let...
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Tom and Old Willie

Elsie meets her daughter for Bath-time fun. Who are the guys?

Leggings - Night & Day!

local, and some Cockney voices adding to the general miasma.
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All day

Skin pallid, Shadows are home. Sharp, yellow rectangles float in evening sky, breaking distant monotony of nothing. Hair like Van Gogh's sunflowers;...

Leggings – Besmirch the Witch!

It was apparent that something had gone amiss!

Still January around White Castle, Monmouthshire

A misty walk to White Castle … but the hills not totally obscured … Remember the banks of violets seen before; now all around suspended growth … a beautiful ivy spread …
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Family Banquet Snapshot

In the drawer of my nightstand, an old wooden table with faded crimson, tranquilly lies a snapshot of one of my so many family banquets in 2014. My...

An Everyday Housewife... Cilla Shiels

An Everyday Housewife... Cilla Shiels Synopsis My life always seemed to run in threes. Three boys, three scary journeys abroad alone, third time...

Disabilities and Employment

One wonders how people with a mental illness qualify in sport. They are disabled but usually not physical in any way so they must compete on even...
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The Restructure Roundel

Met up with a former colleague the other day. This is for all those who are now, or ever have been, working in public services.

Leggings - The Radio Show

I suppose it might be good for me this kind of strange acclaim.

Up Mortimer’s Forest 12/2/17

Early morning – a sprinkling of snow shining in the sun, children out chattering in the garden before school; soon melting, drive north, icing...

Into the Blue

Chapter 2: No Pain No Gain. Be a hill seeker the view is better from the top’ Lorna Jane My legs were starting to get sore. I was slowing down. " Don...

Into the Blue

Chapter 1: The journey ‘Life is about the journey not the destination.’ 510km cycled. I wrote down in my diary. I lifted my now exhausted and shaky...
Cherry

'13. Palermo.

’13. Palermo. Great Britain. When I was eight or nine I recall sitting around my ‘Uncle’s’ conservatory in his three-quarters of a million-pound...
Cherry

(Not) Counting the Minutes at Falmouth Town Station

I was born at 8.25 am on the 2 nd of January 1959 with apparently the straightest back the midwife had ever seen. Not really sure how this has...

A Travelling Man

Hello You how are you doin. When are you coming home I ask myself that more often these days. I used to be so sure when I was younger but now....no...
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I Remember...

I remember my window, spattered with sleet, the phantasm-feral mist, hovering voodoo flares. A diamond flamed moon... She brought stone-cold nights,...
Cherry

Senior Moments at Christmas Party

I belong to our local Senior Citizens Association. I joined in order to play in the scrabble group a few years ago, but also volunteered to set up a...
Cherry

Leggings - The Barrack Street Boys – equivalent to the Cockney Kings & Queens...

Leggings - The Barrack Street Boys – equivalent to the Cockney Kings & Queens... A local Norwich resident suggested to me that another faction is...

Floating Hotels

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How much money is there in the world? They keep building these cruise liners, expanding the fleet. They have expanded into the Caribbean, But if they...
Cherry

Winter child

Away from the leafed through house and far from the stale, bitumen thrum of traffic crush we curl back into the womb of the earth. Topping the brow...

Leggings - Months of Hidden Activities

Leggings – Months of hidden activities... which I've chosen not to discuss.... I'm fed up of them all. However its Super-moon season! It's nearly...
Cherry

In consequence of our increasing age

Death is inevitable but so too, before the bite, is increasing wisdom as perspective is allowed by time's increase on reflection. I am only in my...

Cruising Blues : Period Of Adjustment

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On Day 3 of the cruise, too much sun and minor irritations cause our mood to be less positive, as the early excitement of the voyage has calmed.
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Albatross

So I went on this poetry course, and wrote a sonnet to my house. As you do.
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Is Space The Final Frontier? Who Will The Man Of The Future Be? (Ch.13c)

Janus ponders these questions. Despite improvements in human life the system has become a dull grey computer and money driven world. Could a man or woman of culture ever be the future?

The guy

There was once a guy. On a typical day in the life of the guy he was woken by his mother's domestic worker with a mug of sweet tea next to his bed...
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The History Of The World (Ch.13b)

Janus comes to a 'dead end' in his attempts to influence people through the Vidbase computer network, finding his histories are not being noticed by many, and his efforts seem quite pointless. Alternative Futuristic World.
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The old Heifer and the Two old Bulls at Peace

‘It’s not age, it’s what comes with it’ The time to cook and to eat well and talk. I have breathed in Pete’s garden His hardy geraniums and forty-...
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Poem of the week

Blue

The recent loss of my firstborn has brought back the pain of another loss...
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Gifts Of My Childhood

In deep recesses of my mind running down nostalgic pavements scrawled with forgotten squares and numbers hopscotch played until we dropped, with...
Cherry

Studland, missing fingers, a rabid dog called Bob and a privy

When we first arrived from Canada in the early 1960’s my parents would take us, that is my two elder brothers and me to a farm on the road from...
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A Tour of My Neighbourhood

Written some years ago when I lived in inner-city Edinburgh.
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Tormore Whisky, The Stag and Hounds and the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

The Stag and Hounds at Braywick between Maidenhead and Windsor is where I had my first taste of English bitter that I paid for legally myself as I...
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Leggings - A trail of children.

That's another story for Halloween... see suggested child reader instead!

Late Blackberrying

Late for blackberries, missed it this year - let’s go up Wort Hill – ‘look-out point’ over Shropshire dips and ups, and on to Edgton – enjoy the air...

Lean Times Part Two.

A letter arrived from the benefits people for Paul it wasn’t good news six weeks ago, so I expected the same information again, Paul didn’t like to...

Miami

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Some thoughts on the holiday in Miami and the Caribbean, which I have just been on, including the threatening hurricane.

Story7: Nature Reciprocates

It was 2007 a memorable year that left a deep impression on my mind. I was filled with mixed emotions. It was emotions of happiness and emotions of...
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Poem of the week
Pick of the Month

Branwell Clinic

As I'm finding it difficult to write at the moment, I will continue to let my daughter Julia (Overthetop1) live on through her own writing, until I am ready. Coral Jane (seashore).
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Lean Times.

Last year was the poorest I’ve ever been, in my life. Before that Paul and myself had juggled our money, bought mainly reduced food, went to jumble...
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Poem of the week

City

Words scrawled in white, red brick walls as canvas, angles of cheap, old buildings cut shapes in the overcast sky. Plastic windows magnify struggling...

Leggings - a Shopping tale

When I'd finished piling through the adverts in the 'friend' last week, I decided to go down to HB to pick up a British Legion Poppy bird feeder. The...

Conned? 5

You thought this story was over, didn't you? Well so did I, until I opened my computer on Tuesday morning to find an email from my bank, telling me I...

life blog my ex part 2

We, my ex and I, first moved into nursing accommodation and then a house, before we both decided to get a mortgage. The maisonette rested on the...

life-blog My ex part 1

My ex … where to begin? What to say? Why write this? (sigh) We met, that is my ex and I, in 1991. It was just as I started what I thought was my...

Conned? 4

Sunday I was expecting another of the team, this time, the man who would actually install the system. He came late, but only by three hours or so...