Covid Christmas

Christmas is approaching. I am going to my son and family in Lancashire. It will be a proper Christmas with… Read more Covid Christmas

The Mysterious Life of a Land Rover

It has been pointed out that that I had used a fair amount of artistic licence when describing the events… Read more The Mysterious Life of a Land Rover

My son phoned, ‘Dad has been reincarnated as a Land Rover.’ Another son phoned and said,’ Dad has been reincarnated.’… Read more Dad has been reincarnated as a Land Rover

I felt free for the first time for almost two years thanks to Covid restrictions. I felt I was actually… Read more Freedom

A feeling of escaping from confinement of taking a deep breath and relishing the freshness of the air. The air… Read more Summer

We are living in a post human world and do not touch skin to skin. Now we see skin in… Read more Skin

I stand in the kitchen, the floor is covered in water and I watch as water seeps out of the… Read more The Plumber

She took me back to Malaysia last year, a place I had left aged 18. It was a nostalgic journey.… Read more The Odd Couple

I have always hated science fiction. I don’t like a threatening peculiar thing that leads to dystopia and I am… Read more Lock Down

The nights are dark and the house is silent and I am grateful to be absorbed in exercises.… Read more On doing an open university creative writing course