Jack in the Box
My hell hole, a solitary candle lit it's straight jacket dimensions, every time the earth trembled I wondered if it would become my coffin. I picked my team, ex-game keepers and Fred. We had found nothing. I was about to…
Out of Hibernation
Spring must have arrived, for I decided to visit Skipton and get Irene's bike out of winter storage. Then I pumped the tyres up and rode it home along the canal banking, and out to Carleton. For it was a…
Knowle Mill
Tonight I visited the clubrooms at Knowle Mill, South St, Keighley, and got my 'Bear Mountain' layout ready for this coming Sunday's open day. When I will be training the engine drivers of the future. Heaven help them.
Spring into action
I wake to sunshine, and it tempts me to rise early. I think of walking into town for a coffee but for some unknown reason I spring into action, so the mop spins and the duster flies. Soon the house…
At the hands of young adults.
Shall we have a game granddad? Sounds good to me, said I. Little did I know. Out came the Scrabble board. Four players settled down to play and win. Callum went first. Heck that's a large score. Caitlin plays next. Why did she go…
Calico Jack
Tonight my wallet was emptied, by Calico Jack and his three assistants, Caitlin, Callum and Daniel. Whilst the puppet master Irene (my wife) pulled their strings. They demanded double helping of mozzarella dips, along with a mountain of barbecued chicken…
Used Magic.
For now he was sealed in a stone tomb, but Nimueh had overlooked that stolen magic would gradually over time return to its own master. So millenniums would go by. Arthur and his round table would pass into legend. Nations…
Mike at Play
This weekend along with quite a few members of the local G scale brigade, I am at Ingrow Station on the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway [KWVR]... The KWVR has made us very welcome, providing food and drinks and free rides on…
Beneath the Dereliction
As his fingers reached up as if to heaven Elaine wondered why she had come back to this place. It held such sad memories for her. A place of incarceration, that's what it had been. A prison. Harry had seen to…