Apologies for the smiles
Coming and a going; that’s what I have been doing this week. For I spent the weekend at Shildon on duty at Locomotion. Of cause there where preparations to be made prior to my span of duty. Then there was…
Transfer station
Ellen we have no choice, we have to leave the old city. I know that it holds so many happy memories for us. But New London is the future, it has no cars, so no fumes. There are no weather…
Thoughts of Freedom
A ray of sunlight flickers across my bench, how I wish that I might reach up and escape through the skylight. Instead I am incarcerated in this hovel of a prison. Who am I ? I was once the Right…
Unwanted guest
Such a display of nourishment, I am so lucky. They call me a book worm, but knowledge was my aim. What if I take a nibble or two. Surely few do not like a tasty book. Enid Blyton and the…
Watching from afar
So much variety you are amazing creatures but so deadly. Yes I watch from afar, for you are my stock in trade. My teacher said just sit and study them, there is such variety. They may drive you mad, but…
Guilty pleasures
He spent the day in his shed, the sun cast a warm glow over his pride and joy: a Victorian Cropper printing press. Many times he stroked the lustrous finish, if he could have burnished it more, he would have.…
Just imagine
As night approached I hobbled my two donkeys and set up camp. After beans and bacon swilled down with coffee, I drifted into a uneasy sleep. As usual the terrors that plague me returned. Years of military service had left…
Lighting the way
The darkness encourages me to wonder about travelling to the stars. I understand the distance involved, yet how I wish to see even the smallest star that flickers in my mind. With time perhaps I will roam from star to…