The Pothole – a poem

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 […]

Ardenna Crossing Update – February 2024

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 […]

They Wear the Shame – a poem

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 […]

Refuge – 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, […]

Ardenna Crossing Update!!

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 […]

Thanks, Darcie!

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 […]

A Peaceful Moment – 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 […]

Some Woodland Haikus

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Trading – a poem

I run this Pokemon club at my school. They all get to bring their cards in on Mondays and at lunchtime I sit there while they trade. It’s like Wall Street. I watch them all do their deals and bargain and show off their best cards in their folders. I sit by and I know […]

Alert – a few haikus

Haven’t written anything of my own for ages. I was really struggling for inspiration and feeling a bit desperate, so I clung on to the only thing I could think of: todays UK National alert text. Sorry I’m advance but I needed to write something, anything. Poised for an alert, A whole nation’s attention, Waiting […]