14th July 2023 Set ablaze the last four logs. Roaring in the pit, On The windy side of the hill, The sky opened and stared to spit. Then...

13th July 2023 After asking the lady in the Kelly’s ice cream shop in the teeming tourist harbour of Charleston, The best place to get...

12th July2023 Never spent a night in a luxury tent before. We had always made our own camp. Lugging all the detritus required for nights...

11th July 2023 I have camped in storms, Held tent posts together As the wind smashed into me. Tying together the broken poles With string...

10th July 2023 With Fern laden banks, Toppling into the road. Narrow, well kept, With moss in the middle. The West Country roads Are a...

9th July 2023 When the alarm went off I jumped out of bed. Phils never seen me move so fast. Excited was not enough of a word To describe...

8th July 2023 I made a hoop slinky, It's far from dinky. All those hoops spun at once, Lots of them, a real bunch. I used to roll my eyes...

7th July 2023 The excitement, the anticipation, The eager patient time lapse required. Then the stick becomes a plant. The potential life...

5th July 2023 We are all creative beings, Within us all is a seed. Pure potentiality, latent and loaded. Waiting for the perfect...

4th July 2023 The greatest conspiracy of all time Is that everything works out alright. Not the destruction of mankind, Nor the...

3rd July 2023 The rain is falling in huge drops. Heavy and streaky like pearls In vertical lines against the window pane. A brief...

2nd July 2023 I tried to use the time driving In the car To breathe and relax into Into the moment. To let the passing of interactions,...

1st July 2023 Little kraken car, Monsterously small, Devishly dinky. A franken Kia.

30 th June 2023 My friend had an bad accident in the 1990's. Her body smashed, Her head too Her executives have all been out to lunch...

28th June 2023 The work is never ending. It goes on and on. Just when I think I understand It changes. Like a child, always growing,...

26th July2023 It's always there in the background, Those dreading figures to account. The receipts need filing Stops me smiling, Fear and...

25th June 2023 As a child my mother planted sweet peas in the front garden. They climbed up around the front door. The smell drifting in...

24th June 2023 I love the summer rain. As a child I would run naked into the garden. Ripping off my clothes. Dancing in sheer joy as the...