It has been an uneventful start to the New Year; after a leisurely morning we go to Pizza Hut for lunch. The children manage to eat more than we do! Then we wander around the few shops that are open in Bury, as if we haven’t had enough of shopping. Other dazed...
Sunday: 10k run (that’s 6.2 miles in English), hot (27 C) 11.00am start Framlingham Castle, Suffolk, England. I haven’t done much running over the summer, concentrating on the bike instead. I’m quite fit (in one sense), but this was an ordeal too...
Not that I had one, but the break is over. I have discovered Coetzee, courtesy of fellow members of my writers’ group, sent off some poems to a regional competition, decided to put in the hard work necessary to fuel a ‘career’ in writing and not...
If you’re going to write a poem, first you have to feel something. You can’t be lifeless, slothful, regretful; you’ve got to feel life. Don’t be a sap, a charlatan, don’t be happy with what you have, what is going on around you. Be mad,...
Today I have two main aims: Finding a local publisher of poetry. Checking up the stats on my web site (of which this blog is the home page).I’m in Suffolk, the sun is shining between showers, the late shift beckons at the printers where I work. Web stats show...
