My youngest daughter, once said to me, ’I would eat anything. I’d even eat you!’ She curiously later developed a phobia about Baked Beans. It got to the point where you couldn’t even say those two words, never mind show her a can. So in the event of the world’s end with nothing but me […]
Grammar Check
There is so much which needs to be said on the issue of grammar schools. The subject is a minefield. It is presented as a healing blanket under the ‘opportunities for all’ banner, covering the world of education for a society which is itself already in no way equal. Take the child who is so very bright […]
The Web
For this, the final blog on my poetry, I am giving you just one example of my work. By now, I hope that you have seen enough to whet your appetite. The story of the spider’s web, in this poem actually happened to me. I went out to put something in my dustbin one morning and, discovered […]
Some Even More Of Me Poetry
Some Even More Of Me Poetry I am continuing this introduction to my poetry collection with two poems about romantic regret. Some examples of my work, which I have chosen for these blogs, are favourites of our youngest writer, Simon Jay. An achievement to have your work admired by someone at a vastly different […]
All Over By Christmas
…or ‘No Room at the Inn’. It was Christmas and I was seventeen. My father managed a newsagents’ shop which we lived above, and which was tied into the property. There were six of us, Mum and Dad and we four children. The owner sold up and the new owner decided they wanted to live there. We […]