Summer. Kids dive, bums up, feet waving. Splash, like tin foil lids strung on sun beams, its rubbish chatter lays claim the breeze. Beneath the rumpled blue sheet shadows ripple in pliable squares. BBQ smoke wafts - the white drift of sudden hunger - behold wet figures trickle across baked tiles. Written for Grace's dVerse … Continue reading Street Christmas Party
After her nightmare the silence settles around my ear drums like the lowest thrumming of a tuneless guitar I stroke my daughter’s hair and feel the stillness of a million leaves and blades of grass and ants' legs outside the window. I don’t feel afraid yet my pulse fills my whole head dizzily. In the … Continue reading Support Networks
It’s almost exactly a month until Christmas. I have to admit it’s not a time of year I treasure. The more uppity I get about climate change, the more Christmas bothers me. All the twinkling lights and excessive decorating and manic gift buying – it all just seems wasteful to me. It’s like all the … Continue reading Christmas
Some things I love about my friends: I love raucous laughs - cackles, hoots, loud HA HAs. They give me great pleasure and make me smile even if I don't share in the humour of the moment. But this really only works if I like the person anyway. Odd but true. I love it when … Continue reading Just for something different…
Out of the Cave 