Uncut: Buttercups
Golden yellow buttercups, Daisies daintily sweet. Lion clocks fading, Docks standing proud, May flowers waving, Nettles firmly competing: All surrender to the rampant grass, except Thistle sharp. Earthen banks, birds hunting, Willows bow, rippling water, silent pebbles, pool deep,…
A Tea Shop Trilogy
It's a brilliantly warm sunny day in York. I am on one of my usual tea shop trilogy' with Stuart. I am sat in the old East Lodge toll house tucking into warm scones with cream and raspberry jam and…
At the hands of young adults.
Shall we have a game granddad? Sounds good to me, said I. Little did I know. Out came the Scrabble board. Four players settled down to play and win. Callum went first. Heck that's a large score. Caitlin plays next. Why did she go…
Spinning a Story
The glass roof was acting like a greenhouse, the temperature on the top floor of the old mill was rising. As Noah walked the floor watching the girls chasing the machines he wished that he was once again a child…
Travelling Madness
Sadness over whelmed him as the news came in. The murderous acts of the cowardly individuals who had murdered so many in Brussels dominated the news. Joe who was rebuilding his camper van ready…
The young water buffalo
The young buffalo rocked gently as she wallowed in the warm mud of the river bank. Above in a tree a lizard watched her then he blinked and seemed to fall asleep. In his pea green coat he blended in…