Month: May 2020

The Blue Nib

Three poems for your consideration over at The Blue Nib today … Caught In Concrete, Masterclass and One Step Beyond. I hope you like them 🙂

May Update …

So, time ticks on and I’m about six months away from leaving my teaching career as a deputy head. By the end of 2020 I will have completed 32 years employed in primary schools by Cumbria County Council, having also spent 1984 until 1988 at Charlotte Mason College in Ambleside on the recommendation of a…

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Inspiration

This time of year, when the field out the back of our house is teeming with wildlife, inspiration to write poetry manifests itself in many forms. Recently, I’ve had the pleasure of watching a queen wasp construct a nest from wood pulp chewed off the outside of Fiona’s shed; blackbirds, sparrows, bluetits and (gasp) bullfinches…

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