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Meadowhead Bard

Random and surreal poetry satire and short stories.

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  • Shirley Combes, and the Kings Crackers.

    I started doing my blog, because I needed a distraction. I’m a practical guy DIY, model builder etc, but back in March I suffered serious burns to my hands and my right arm, I couldn’t use my hands properly and I would have gone insane without something to occupy my mind. I’ve always written a… Read more

  • Mr Benn

    I’m glad this one came up, I have something in my archive, I wrote for my care home talks. This is a little story, but hidden in the text are British tv shows, quite a few children’s programs, but some are adult shows. I course I realise a lot of my readers are from foreign… Read more

  • Boy Scouts Hooves.

    I haven’t to told this story to many, especially the man concerned, and he doesn’t do internet, so he will never know. It’s a couple of years back now, and this chap came to me needing help, he was trying to help a single parent who’s little boy was hyper active, and had broken the… Read more

  • The Unlucky Man

    Another tough prompt. My life has been an adventure, but now I’m old and feeble (exaggeration) the adventures are not so big. I am famous for not having any sense of direction, I once went to the toilet in the cinema, ended up outside and had to beg to be let in again! So my… Read more

  • a ghost story.

    Hello readers, today I offer you you a little ghost story, I challenged myself to write a normal type story, well it’s not quite that, but I hope you enjoy it. Todays Dylan quote “ My patron saint is fighting with a ghost, he’s always off somewhere when I need him most” Good Eh? Please… Read more

  • Doctors Nurses and Dylan.

    I have had the idea of adding a favourite line from from a Dylan song before my poem or story, this one is from Idiot Wind, from the album Blood On The Tracks. “You close your eyes and pout your.lips, and pull your fingers from you glove, you can have the best there is, but… Read more