Musings
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...
It’s true
It's me. For a while I thought it wasn't, then I built up a scenario in my head of how Penrich was going to supercede me, Penrich was going to slip...
Who is this?
I've told you about Penrich. The truth is even stranger; he woke me up in the middle of the night, forcing things into my head, strange thoughts, I...
Did I mention?
How dull it's been here lately. I've got a bike, crusty with all that crap that comes off the road in January (you know, the salt & grime they put...
Defining moments
Dismal day here in Suffolk, raining, grey, that shivery kind of cold weather that gets in your bones, nose, everywhere and makes you remember the...