In four months from today, all being well I will be in receipt of my state pension. It doesn't seem five minutes since I was a...

There’s a feeling, I don’t know if you get it Kind of empty but full, a present absence Longing for something just beyond your grasp A...

I've been thinking about how I can make some spondulicks out of writing limericks, haikus, and hard hitting social comment, actually not...

Here we are, the wee small hours of a Friday morning and I'm thinking of the best way to revive my poetic career and monetise my output....

There sat an old poet one night who strove to write Limericks right He wrote silly rhymes At unusual times Until suddenly dark became light

Two fifteen AM Still awake trying to think Of a Limerick

I started writing this earlier: 'That's reflective as in looking back on life rather than feeling like a mirror, although I suppose I am...

Those of a sensitive disposition should stop reading now... I spent most of last night up and down like the lift in the Empire State...

Or should that be a new lease on life, who knows? I'm not talking about myself here, it's my venerable old laptop I'm on about. I...

I've just woken up from a dream which seemed very real. Its subject made me feel sad during the dream and even now after I've woken up...

This morning I'm feeling self-critical. This is something that is my constant companion, a little Devil of Negativity (DoN) whispering in...

I'm feeling a little bit unsettled this evening. This often happens when things change. I wish I didn't have this trait in my...

Today is the 22nd day of the month of July in the year of our lord 2023 and I'm witing this with a blanket, albeit a thinnish blanket,...

Today, someone asked about the term "one freckle past a hair" because their husband used it and she had no idea what he was on about. I...

Today I made an interesting concoction for my tea which turned out to be surprisingly tasty. I mixed together some vegetable oil and...

On 12th June 2022 I wrote this: 'I have realised that I spend all my days sitting on the settee doing not very much and just letting the...

I have realised that I spend all my days sitting on the settee doing not very much and just letting the world pass me by. I'm not sure...

Today I've mostly been watching sport. Rugby League at lunchtime, then the Men's Scottish Cup Final and now the Women's Champions League...

It's Tuesday, it's the 17th of May 2022 and so far this week I've done sweet Fanny Adams apart from write a couple of haikus and a...

What's best a weekly update on my latest deep thoughts or what? Daily? Too much. Monthly? Too little. Weekly? Just right. So there we...