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I started writing this about petty little tech troubles, but it’s ended up a pretty good bit of nonsense, that actually makes sense. In a nonsensical way. Apologies for the naughty bit at the end, bottom, oh I don’t know, whatever you want to call it. Norman is An Island Norman is an island, so… Read more
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I’m trying hard to stay afloat, I’m about to loose one of the things I love most, working in a little DIY shop. So today just a new silly little poem, and something from the archive. One thing from the latter “Soon to be in-law daughter” She wasn’t quite that at the time of writing,… Read more
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We don’t call them High Schools in the UK. When I was at school kid it would have been Secondary Modern. Not really a place of learning, just somewhere where one had to go, on the pretext of learning. I thought I’d lost the little story below, it was one of the first things I’d… Read more
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This is about positive change, but it isn’t about me thankfully. I think I’ve already covered positive change in a previous post. When one works in a shop, as both my wife and I do, there are always certain customers that, how can I say? “Not too good at personal hygiene” so we always have… Read more
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Being dyspeptic and not being able to smell one’s worms probably. Can be helpful sometimes, for example today’s prompt, I am not going to write about exercise? that would be boring, so I’m going to write about exorcism instead. After all I can never see “How to exorcise demons” coming up on the prompt. What… Read more
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If the story of life was written as a book, I would read it over and over again, and probably still not understand it. One thing though I would learn is never pay more for anything than you have to, especially if it makes others rich for doing basically nothing. When I was a kid,… Read more
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One of my favourite books is called “The Trustee From the Toolroom” by Neville Shute” The main protagonist shares my first name, he is also a model engineer as am I, so it would be easy to shoehorn myself into that character. You have two for the price of one today, my planned poem (The… Read more
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We don’t have a pet or really want one, We do have Logan the grand dog, of whom you can read about in the annals of my blog. Animalistic I wouldn’t have a tyrannosaur that terrifying dinosaurA goldfish well maybe. But their language is so poor“Stick insects”, some one said “They’re fun it is oh… Read more
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”I make shoes for everyone even you, while I still go barefoot” From the track “I and I” on Bob Dyland’s album “Infidels” That line has a resonance with me, I am always doing things for people in the neighbourhood, and don’t usually ask for anything in return, and rarely is anything offered. Recently on… Read more
Random and surreal poetry satire and short stories.
Meadowhead Bard 