Certificate 15

Ages 15 and up

Today I Was Thinking About .........

Have been thinking recently about injustices in the world. One of the things I thought about was women in poor countries in the world, who have to...

In Brief

Are you always a bit too late? Usually settle for the second rate? Find yourself booted through the garden gate? Dangled by life like a piece of bait...

Eccentricity

I suspect that 'eccentric' appearance or behaviour these days is often manufactured to create an effect, but my childhood experience of these things...
Cherry

ALL lives matter.

My Son Daniel came home for dinner on Sunday and he told us this story. “This happened recently, I was in Fred’s car he was giving me a lift to work...
Cherry

Nelf

Let me give you my dawn, whether you want it or not, like my new self, alike a kite in a vacant, hollow sky. It came lard-like between the sprick and...

The Hangover

I woke up with a brain in smog. Muzzle like a rabid dog. Stumbled down into the bog. Sat for a while, without a log. Legs creaking; a rusty cog. The...

Immortality

Don't worry. No need to hurry. Just live on a diet of yogurt and blueberry. They'll never need your body to bury... Because you'll be crossing the...
Cherry

The Lout

Arnold Sidebottom was a bit of a lout. A face like a dog, with a pig's snout. Long arms and body stout. He couldn't walk down the street without...

WHAT?????

I have just read on Sky News, that a “Paranoid Schizophrenic who slit a girl’s throat is cleared of murder.” The Paranoid Schizophrenic, was sitting...

A Good Pint

Let's go tut pub for a pint of ale. It's not that bad; no need to wail. If toilet's flooded, paper boats we can sail. If urinal stinks, we can deeply...