Poem of the Week : )

Soooo pleased about this accolade … Write Out Loud is a wonderful place to share poetry. Thank you W.O.L. team : ) #Poetry Book End by Jonathan Humble Lost in an oversized raincoat, she sits outside the library; an old book, out of print in a dog eared dust cover. Through thick prescription glass, puddles…

Goole Revisited

Hello Humber Gateway, you old dock drab, winking at passing commerce with your ample warehouse acreage, welcoming skirts hitched up the legs of the Ouse and Trent. Under stretched skies, I am a salmon swimming the sixty-two, past rotting coal fired corpses, where orderly pylons queue the lanes, sturdy girls whispering old secrets; gossip from…

#WorldCurlewDay #NotACurlew

Waking early yesterday morning (6 a.m.), I opened the window to hear a curlew (honestly, no word of a lie). Then I went to the RSPB reserve at Leighton Moss with Mrs H. where Jim the robin (see below) said hello. ‘Twas a wonderful way to start World Curlew Day, which ended at The Waterside…

Diary

Today I got my diary out. 6:30 a.m. and I’d decided not to go running (still aching after yesterday’s pre-dawn shuffle around the country lanes of Cumbria). Re-read the winners’ poems in the National Poetry Competition Anthology and checked e-mails. Got diary out and counted the weeks left until I stop being a full-time teacher…