Month: July 2016

Badge Of Honour

A few weeks ago I got a letter from my local household recycling centre. I wasn’t expecting them to write to me. I’ve always had a very functional relationship with the place. If I have stuff I want to get rid of, I drive there and hurl the offending items into one of the designated…

Dinner Time

Janice cut the chicken into strips and tossed them into the frying pan, along with the onions and peppers she had prepared earlier. Adding a little sauce, she stir- fried her composition for a few minutes, singing along to compilation of late-eighties pop acts that were the mainstay of her decade-old MP3 player. The kitchen…

Torpid Tuesday

I sit in the dark Because turning on the lights Requires me to get out of my chair Which seems like a lot of effort I watch a TV show I’ve already seen And didn’t really enjoy Because the remote control is just out of reach

Dreamland

In the post Brexit bewilderment, many people looked to sport to lighten the mood. It’s pretty clear that the UK is currently in a political and economical state of confusion, and while the long term effects of leaving the EU (which we haven’t even begun the process of yet) may not be as bad as…