Today, at work, we had a very surreal conversation about pheasants. Why we alighted on such a subject matter is a bit of a mystery although I think it started with a comment about a ‘vegan versus meat eating existence’. Always guaranteed to loosen the tongue and get the juices of conversation spilling forth. I […]

(The Kooks – She moves in her own way) I listened without hearing, or was it the other way around? I heard but wasn’t listening. Until, that is, one line crystallised in my mind and it was the phrase ‘Paper Dreams’. It jumped into me head like an eager school kid; “Oooo, oooh…I know, I […]

( Monsters – a track from his current album and a farewell letter to his Dad who is dying of kidney disease) Driving to work, snuffling and wishing things could be different just for today, just for this one morning. But I joined the habitual queue, irritated and clock watching I shifted in my seat…late […]

A ‘common’ cold, oh my mother would have labelled this bug ‘common’ alright! I witnessed him arrive in the office, and he certainly brought a briefcase of unsavouriness with him. He was here to stay it seemed. Firstly he didn’t bother me, preferring to fraternise with my colleagues at the front of the room. Oh […]

By the side of me, on my desk, is a photo.I’m looking so happy in it.It always makes me smile and I feel the energy of that photo every time I glance at it, I feel it as if I’m there.“In fact, why am I not there?’ Heart asks.“Shhhh, get on with your work”, Mind […]

Seeing what I thought was an old carrier bag by the side of the road, I sighed and tutted to myself, berating the litter louts of the world. I made my way over to it with the intention of picking it up and disposing of it like the responsible citizen that of course I am. […]

When you buy a puppy, it is the cutest thing, vulnerable, small, innocent. The excitement leading up to bringing that certain little someone home is such a delicious feeling, you’ve had to wait so long! As this little bundle with over-sized feet grows, it does do some unacceptable things – chewing shoes, pee-ing on the […]

I dreamed of you last night and have woken with thoughts of you, so far away now. We probably won’t get together again as the distance has got away from us and anyway we are living such different lives that its almost like we’re completely different people.At first it was our fears that came to […]

I was making my way carefully and unsteadily down the steep steps of our static caravan on my three year old, chubby legs. I was being particularly unsteady and careful on that day, one of my earliest memories, because I was concealing about my person a grubby secret. Once down, I remember having to walk […]

I was walking my dog along the track next to the railway line with a view to crossing at the designated crossing point. This point was gated and awkward to get through as it was a swing gate enclosed by a metal surround. The type that discourages any other crossing, any other traveller than those […]