Inspiration Point (work that responds to our weekly writing cue)

An unwanted cuckoo.

… the ‘Kathleen’ substitution! … the eyes of the bear were probably rather close together … A tom-boy, but …

The tram was packed, as always, a shifting mass of humanity wedged together on their way to somewhere else. A family sat near the front, the parents...

Under a carpet in Carlisle cathedral aisle a brass plate over a marble tomb (about 500 years old); engraved with a dog, a fish, a bird, an eel and two mythical creatures (it is said) — or are they? …Did Saint George kill a dinosaur?