So, there’s a yawning chasm of a pothole down my road. Every day, I have to remember to go around it in case I drive the car into it and come out in Australia. Anyway, short of other ideas, and with half an hour to spare, I wrote this. Hole in the world, A little […]
Read more "The Pothole – a poem"Hello everyone. I had a chance to add some action to my sequel a couple of weeks ago and again today. It feels good to be getting somewhere at last after a long time in the wilderness agonising about the plot and where it was going. Now I’m back in the flow again, throwing Paul […]
Read more "Ardenna Crossing Update – February 2024"It’s been a number of years since I sat down and watched this. I’ve probably not touched it since before 2012. I was about to do a whole run through of this and Buffy just before all the unpleasant allegations against Joss Whedon emerged. I shelved that idea and spent quite a long time sitting […]
Read more "Rewatching Angel (1999-2004)"Hi everyone, It’s been a lean few months where I haven’t managed to write anything. No progress on my book for ages and not even more than a tiny poem to show. Until now! I was in Essex for Christmas, in the town where one Matthew Hopkins did his horrible work drowning and torturing women […]
Read more "They Wear the Shame – a poem"Hi everyone, It’s National Poetry Day next week and the theme is ‘refuge’. So, I put together a little string of cinquains to mark the day. Hope you enjoy them. Refuge A home, That’s all they need, A place to sit and think, Untroubled for some short moments, By that. That thing, That’s always there, […]
Read more "Refuge – a poem"Hi everyone, So, I’m coming to the end of the summer holidays but I’m so excited to report on the progress I’ve made with Book 2 of The Ardenna Crossing. With a couple of days in Reading library (my writing retreat of choice) and a couple more days I was lucky enough to get to […]
Read more "Ardenna Crossing Update!!"It was great to see one of my old pupils a couple of weeks ago. I was back at my old school for the summer fair and she came along to say hello (and some other really nice things). I was really blown away and I wanted to prove that what I told her was […]
Read more "Thanks, Darcie!"So, we had a camp out on the school field on Friday night. 50 children in tents under a beautiful starry sky. At about 1:20am, out of the corner of my eye, I saw flashes of light far off. They were persistent so I made my way to the other end of the school field […]
Read more "Flashes and Worry – a poem"Hi there, Wrote another poem today during my lunch break, thinking of summer days spent lying around in long grass meadows. Soft like the bed of long grass in which I lie, Soft in the caress of the pastel blue sky. Soft like the hazy thoughts that ebb and flow, Adding up to nothing much […]
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