Category: Writing
-
Barbican Life My lockdown photography In this winter’s issue of Barbican Life Magazine there is an article by Erin Summers about my wildlife photography during…
-
Robert Laurence Binyon wrote his most well known poem ‘For the Fallen’ while gazing out to sea from a cliff-top in Cornwall in 1914 just…
-
Bonfire Night Bonfire night is when we celebrate and remember, remember the failure of Guy Fawkes to blow up Parliament in 1605! (Anybody want to…
-
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.”Tis some visitor,” I muttered, ”tapping…
-
A couple of days ago, browsing in a poetry book I came across a short poem. I never realised a poem could be so short!…
-
It is the night of the Blue Moon, August 2021. I am sitting in a beautiful seaside garden bathed in moonlight. Andrew (my lord and…
-
I remember as a child being enraptured by my father’s stories about when he was in India during World War II. Instead of the usual…
-
The Joys of Sunbathing Aah! To bathe in the sunCan be relaxing funSensing UV raysOn hot sunlit daysSoaking up vitamin D(seems good to me)ButLying so…
-
The Solitary Bee I am a solitary beeon my ownI am not a queen or even a drone I hum a tuneFrom time to timeIt…
-
Perhaps it is time to tell TV weather forecasters to wipe the smiles off their faces?
