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December Update

I have recently written two poems. I am very pleased with both. One is a poem for children and the other is not. Both have been entered in competitions (see an earlier blog entry about competitive poetry). To me this feels significant because they are my first creative efforts since leaving school and retiring from…

Last day …

Old Dog Heart racing as if a mile had been lost, at odds with the stillness of a newly emptied room, taking in the failure of pencils on the floor and books left on tables. He sees ghosts, hears the echo of children’s voices, careless and free now it has gone three, oblivious of the…

November 1st 2020 … déjà vu, all over again

Borrowing the above phrase made famous by professional baseball player and undoubted sage Lawrence Peter ‘Yogi’ Berra, we do seem to have been here before. Back in March 2020, when news of the first coronavirus lockdown was sinking in and the UK came to a shuddering halt, I had been deep in preparations for an…