When I told my wife about my writers block she told me I should kill my darlings. I thought she cared about our children more than that. Happy wife,happy life as they say. I just go along with her as it’s so much easier. Halfway through my prison term I realised she was talking about […]
Feeling a bit unwell after a night out. My significant other said : “It wouldn’t surprise me if we caught something from the other night. We don’t get much exposure these days.” “Ah, The diseased populus,” I said, “The pox populi.” It did leave me wondering what century I was born in. VOX POPS and […]
Young and Dumb As a youngster I lived in a street of terraced houses. We used to go the end of the block and throw a tennis ball at the gable end of the last house. The game was to get the ball to hit the wall and the ground at the same time. […]
I wondered how many of us are in thrall to our thoughts. Scared of them, scared of their power. How they wrap up in our emotions and give them powerful form. I thought I would go into a little more detail, of how thought became my slave and I the master. Then I thought I […]
Before all this nonsense started. All the devices,all the apps, all of all of the new stuff and more stuff again. I stop and think of generations older than mine, who got to live most of their lives without the stuff. I still hear their dead voices. “We made our own entertainment in those days.” […]
