The Street
It was said that the rays of the sun never touched the pavement. The four and five story buildings cut into the steep hillside cast a permanent shade. Each morning as I hurried to work I sometimes caught a glimpse…
A Cockney Lie
Never lie, that's what mum and dad said to me, but I was seven and green. If the gang said it was a secret, then it was secret. So when mum asked if I had been with Jimmy, I lied.…
Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre
Who was she. God she was beautiful, but dead as a Dodo. What the hell was she doing in my house? Even Shakespeare and his Globe Theatre would have found it difficult to beat her dramatic pose. Then there were…
A Island beyond Clare
On a small island beyond the Isle of Clare, a tall thin white haired eremite resides. Locals do not know his name, but many believe he is waiting for the queen of Connacht to take him, for he is often…
A New Start
The windmill had remained empty for many years, silence ruled in it's cold heart. The miller Mr Johnson had died intestate and family wrangles had kept the mill silence for twenty years. Today a new owner had purchased the mill…
A Busy Week
There's been so much happening recently that my blog [more a diary I have decided ] has suffered, but even good diarists had silence moments. At the weekend I attended a great village fete at Bradley, with the best hot dogs…
Turn and Tuck
Can you tread the needle love, my eyes don't see so well these days, white cotton dear. I will cut a piece off the tail, I need to make a new collar, the old one is past repair. If you unpick…
A Troublesome Gravestone
Bukit Wang in the district of Perlis is a place well known to Aryan and his daughter Puteri. They had travelled there to escape a troublesome Komodo Dragon, who had threatened to find and eat Puteri. Today Puteri and her…
Lady’s of the Night
In their black dress you could almost be forgiven for not noticing them, but tonight was the Festival of the Desert. The Desert Queen would lead her remaining consorts into Rajasthan. Likened to living prehistoric flying reptiles, tonight they would…