The daffodil says it best. It’s butter yellow crisps into brown ready to match a dirt grave. ‘Summer is over’ it tells me. Stalks me with this fact along each row of my flower beds. The Evergreens look the other way, retract bloomless branches from their seasonal companions, worried next year they’ll […]
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My first day blogging has been a very positive experience. I’ve got to grips with the whole concept and have discovered some great blogs other people have been working on for years! Perhaps if I work at mine it can become long-lasting as well. What I expected I expected blogging to be a lonely […]
Walking through the door, I know this isn’t our kitchen. Your phone is on the counter, my coat hung up on the back door. Maybe I can’t recognise, not anymore. It’s warm as I look down; an apple crumble is browning in our oven. I never learnt to bake. To leave it would be a […]
From his sleeping patterns people would assume he was jet-lagged, but he was just lazy. In fact, he’d never been on a plane in his life. He saw them on television though, as he forced more crisps into his mouth. His tongue complained, but it’s words were buried by fried potato. His phone rang. He […]
Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo has been voted the greatest film of all time by a board of critics and academics, fifty-four years after its cinematic release. The British Film Institute’s Sight and Sound magazine poll seemed predictable; Orson Welles’s Citizen Kane has won for the last fifty years. The magazine’s editor Nick James welcomes the change […]
Scottish writer Kathleen Jamie likes privacy. Lucky to be in a small crowd for an advance reading of her latest anthology, I learnt she also shares the rewards of her reclusiveness – astute life lessons. Quietly performing an untitled, unfinished poem for the first time, her words were abruptly fragile. I locked into her message, […]
