Musings
Fringe benefits
Talked to my friend Ruby last night. It seems that the citizens of Bury St Edmunds are to get a fringe festival to supplement the annual version...
Whale water
Further to the Christmas sprout, it’s whale water time! On the back of the saga of the Thames whale, I note on ebay some new items offered. One is...
Puncture repair Kit
Busy week, let’s see – highlight: finishing Slow Man by J M Coetzee. Now, I know I rave about this guy and it’s easy – he is a Nobel prize winner...
Money for old sprouts
It’s Sunday evening. I’ve just listed some stuff on ebay to sell – old videos, Playstation games, that sort of thing. I see it as a form of...
Making time
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!...
10K Run
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...
Spring break
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...
Quick Edit
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...
Getting published
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...
Creeps in this petty pace
This is about time and the blog. Or, about time, Shakespeare and the blog. I mean, if the web had been around in Bill's time, or if a new...
What’s important
I'm in a meditative sort of mood. My son has been sick for a few days with a virus. We had him checked out at the hospital on Sunday, they say it's...
In lieu of inspiration
Two titles for short stories: "Stamped to Death Envelopes" & "Get Witch Quick". Not sure what I could do with them, maybe themes for the writer's...
Death day
Just to say, 9 years ago today my Mum died, of Alzheimer's. Dad reminded me on the phone last night. We joked, as you do when subjects are a bit...
Adding stuff
I'm just editing my template, adding a few links in to my other site pages. The blog is now my home page. No longer "Unkewl" George (thanks...
Do I care?
Penrich says he could have finished my kitchen in half the time.Well, sod him, so could I!
Short and sweet
The shorter the better. In most cases, I like it long though, it gets the juices flowing. That's why novels appeal I suppose. Yet epic poems are not...
Perfectly good day
To paraphrase a famous comic, I have had a perfectly good day. This just wasn't it.
Getting back
Been away for a few days, MSN land (usually I work on AOL Broadband) and for some reason (‘cos it’s free), you can’t log onto MSN during school...
Shit happens, but this is bad
Nothing much to be happy about recently. Weather OK, I'm doing my chores, not enough writing, but there's some serious stuff going on. First there's...
This one’s for Ron,
Firstly, it's never easy when your world is suddenly turned upside down and you are shat on from a great height. Like Ronnie, whose long...