Isolation
Doesn’t she know this is serious? Stupid woman, we’re all in isolation you know and I am particularly ill! Have been for weeks, yet every day she’s out there, on the green, right outside my sickbay. 9.00am on the dot she arrives, ridiculous routine…silently removing her coat, placing it ceremoniously on the grass like some sort […]
Continue Reading...Corona Fever
Of course I am delirious. My temperature is so unstable, the internal cellular battle field is bloody. Opening my eyes again, I’m still in the same place but it is not familiar, nightmarish I can only see through slits in this armoured headgear. The rectangular view points do not afford a full view around me, […]
Continue Reading...The Dichotomy of Size
‘A division contrast between two things that are or are represented as being, opposed or entirely different’ I pulled my laboratory seat closer to the microscope and gently placed my eye to the ocular lens, my fingers of one hand on the focussing mechanism and the other on the microscope ‘stage’ where the slide was […]
Continue Reading...Room Without a Roof
Having just returned from a holiday of a lifetime I realise that the rooms in my mind always had such heavy overhead closures. Self-containment, worry, security were always so very important to me. They made me feel safe. But I was so free, so happy on this holiday. The Finnish scenery brought out the artist […]
Continue Reading...‘To be a writer, you have to write’
So when you have created enough pages to call a book, admittedly a brand new project and therefore prone to review, you can’t help but assume a precious ownership over those pages. This lovely, rounded object of beauty that I have worked on for a far longer gestation period than it took to grow my […]
Continue Reading...End of play
What on earth are they? As I watched, tiny ‘creatures’, seemingly alive but miniature, appeared to be climbing down the shiny surface of the car stationary, in front of me. It was dark, early morning, and I began to disbelieve my eyes. Looking away momentarily to judge the accuracy of my eyesight, I refocussed again […]
Continue Reading...Wonderous Carvings
‘I’m powerful, I’m loving and I have nothing to fear’ I was chanting these affirmations to myself as I was being dragged up the mountain, willing my skis to stay straight and parallel whilst clenching every unwilling muscle in my buttocks, determined not to sink down on the rubber button wedged between my thighs. An […]
Continue Reading...Wellie Boot chronicles
This is ridiculous, I ranted to myself. The car in front edged forwards, perhaps two foot before his brake lights flooded my car with an appropriately angry red glow. I could see the small roundabout ahead, usually providing a traffic calming effect but today on-coming cars from the right were decreasing our chances of making […]
Continue Reading...2nd-Hand Bouquet
Talk in the office turned to cars. To be honest not a subject matter that I can confidently chat about apart from when the banter turned to ‘first cars’. Due to the age range present, the variance in car makes was astonishing, however when someone mentioned they had a Mini Cooper I had to smile […]
Continue Reading...The Colour of Hope
He felt like running. Just turning around and fleeing from the sheer weight of being adult. But instead he adopted a comical pose and bowing low he said; “Wilt thou accompany me m’lady Guinevere, ‘tis time to visit Merlin once again” Edie sighed hugely at the thought of yet more drugs, but her smile remained […]
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