Contentment

A tractor in the sky, headlights on full beam. Looking lost, looking for the lost. A wandering child. An escaped bandit. A Schrodinger's gossip of…

Aug 13 •

A pair of cats getting fat, but they still bring home the mice. A bed in every room, but still we have to make room. They don't fetch, or come when…

Aug 3 •

Don't be early, don't be late, not for your funeral or for a date. Not for yesterday or tomorrow, with your joy or your sorrow. Or hesitate and before…

Jul 31 •

Grow, grow, grow your own. Dig some soil, throw some seeds. Veg, fruit, try the lot. The more you sow, the less you shop. I don't want chemicals on my…

Jul 11 •

An Ant Named Colin

I spot an ant upon my patio. Scrambling over stones: two, three, four more. Like raisins taking a hike, across monstrous mountains. Consistent…

Jul 10 •

Uninvited Guests

The cack cack cack and the craw craw craw of the monochrome magpie and the rainbow jackdaw. With an act of ungentlemanly birdfare, they awaken the wood…

Jul 1 •

Not From Round 'ere

Not quite wildling North, but norther than here. Where accents fight like cats in an alley way; squealing to be heard, a herd. Darlo, Geordie, Bora…

Jun 26 •

Cutting the Hedge

Jun 20 •

Going to the Tip

I'm going to the tip. But not right now, it's something I need to work up to. Garages, sheds, cupboards too, spring clean medicine for the middle of…

Jun 19 •

Sleepless in San Francisco

The fridge fusses.

Jun 18 •

Gnats in the garden after the rain: the chance to use the silent 'G'. Accelerating upwards in seaming random; like an indoor birthday cake firework, the…

Jun 17 •

Before The Alarm

Waking up before he alarm - oh what a victory.

Jun 8 •

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