Yes we are a wasteful lot. Nature tries her hardest at recycling our homemade castoffs. Metal slowly rusts, but plastic never never returns to nature. So why dump a fridge, with all its plastic internals. Recycle it. Turn it into…
Stuart with a stethoscope and a dozen student nurses in their uniforms. Cameras clicking. The deed was done. Taxi called. Going to the restaurant, you felt sick, I said turn your hat upside down. Now we are sat in a…
Should she high tail it to gay Paris’y, that was the question that Julie asked Dusty Bin, Ted Rogers smiled and gave himself permission to play along. Tonight’s show was beginning to look as if it was going to be…
What a gas, I am staying in the Affinia Dumont hotel. Here on the seventh floor whether looking down or up the view is fascinating. Early doors there are helicopters ferrying people to high profile work. Just across the street,…
Before the marina had been built, time in this area had stood still for centuries. Once four buildings had graced a track which terminated at the marina’s site. The first a church without windows and doors, next a abandoned blacksmiths.…
For me this period of lockdown is a time to rekindle my interest in historical characters. In particular those individuals who used the medium of writing to reach kindred spirits. One such person was John Ruskin (1819-1900). He wrote about…
Around me russet beech leafs flutter like butterfly’s, as my companion’s fur ripples, like a lake disturbed in a strong breeze. In a clear blue sky, crows glide and soar like kites. Watched by a black cat who four white…
After a day spent in the garden, which now begins to look tidy. I spent the evening writing letters and phoning isolated friends. Here in Yorkshire I can now breath deeply as the air is much cleaner. Empty roads allow…
Fortunately Captain Wisoff-Fields sent out a runner to check the way ahead. She spotted a band of redcoats travelling our way. There was no alternative, we would have to travel light and take the high road. Quietly drawing us together…
Fizz knew she had a twin known as K2, but Fizz knew nothing else about her twin. It was like owning a store but having the shelf’s empty. Fizz decided that it was time to visit the wholesalers. Unfortunately the…
