Ode To A Lovely Thing …

O lovely automated thing, You make this old heart race and sing. With bearings oiled and gears divine, Just how I wish your splines were mine. I love your springs; your cogs are nice; You’re such an intricate device. Bell crank and bush, with flange of steel, What pleasures will you next reveal? Toothed ratchet…

Bonnie’s Crew Issue#1

Click here I feel so pleased and honoured to be part of this first issue. Read the back story to the creation of this lovely publication and you will see why. Thank you Kate and Bonnie. JH xxx And Yet Curtains remain drawn, as day comes with rain like a returning memory. In darkness, early…

Jigsaw

I don’t feel like searching this time. What would be the point? But we’re throwing cushions to the floor, groping down the sides of armchairs, emptying cupboards, rolling back mats and scrabbling under beds. I know it’s useless looking for this jigsaw piece, the missing bit I burnt in the grate last week along with…