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Colonel Blink aka Dominic Cummings
Eye Test Drive I went to my local Boots the Chemists yesterday to ask for my eye prescription as I need to buy new reading…
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Shakespeare and St George!
Happy 457th Birthday Will! Today is Shakespeare’s birthday! William Shakespeare, an English poet, playwright and actor, was born on April 23rd 1564* and he died…
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Earth Day and the Launch of my son’s Turnbull & Asser Pocket Squares
Today is Earth Day, and it is also the day when Turnbull & Assers launch my son Daniel’s drawings depicting three of the most endangered…
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How to Keep Fit Indoors: 7 Benefits for Having a Bit of a Skip
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One Walk a Day for Exercise
Day 4 Pic |Through a City Window: while stuck indoors Pic 4 A lone vulnerable person takes a gentle brave stroll out of doors I…
Hey, I’m delighted to see you here! Thanks for coming. My blog is where I publish my poems and artworks (and reveal anything else that I think might be interesting!). I am so happy you’ve dropped by—please enjoy!
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* I am redesigning my site—please bear with me while I fiddle and change things! Thank you,
Lesley

news and events
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Melissa Lemay interviews me on Collaborature!
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“One memorable time was when the producer called a breakfast meeting at a street café in Fulham. At the cusp of a wintry dawn, we found ourselves waiting for the first bottle of Beaujolais Nouveau to arrive. We cracked it open at 8 am, and I remember it as one of the best collaborative meetings ever!”
working as a cartoonist for Channel 4 TV
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✨ Honoured to illustrate the book cover of Broken Rengay
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The book features a rebellious take on the traditional rengay form—thirty six poems that bend the rules with humour, raw emotion, and poetic synergy.
Published by Prolific Pulse Press
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Something’s coming! Wait and see!
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The Diminished Chord: a free verse poem
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Two Bags of Sweets: a pantoum poem
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Beyond the mighty, moonlit, misty ridge, In the mystery of a woodpecker’s wood on the parapet of the humpback bridge A mad hatter stood. His…


