• on time

    sunrise to sunsetwitnessed from my work stationdaylight flashes by ~ CLP 26/01/2022

  • on Ukraine vii

    teachers train childrenhow to shelter under desksessential life skills ~ n.b. Under the constant stress of invasion threat, imagine sending your child to school to be taught how to behave during a bombing run? Not unlike the USA, where children have to be taught how to respond to risk of mass shootings. While mankind learns

  • on light

    frosted fields rotatewhen observed from train windowpassenger unmoved ~ CLP 25/01/2022

  • on memory

    good place to walk dog’net tells us legacy ofsoldiers and miners ~ n.b. Public park built on land in South Moor donated by local colliery owners to commemorate hundreds of men from the district of Stanley, County Durham who died in C20th wars and a mining accident. Dog leads weave like ivy on old trees.

  • on time

    so many placesI would love to share with youhave we enough hours? ~ CLP 23/01/2022

  • on Ukraine iv / v / vi

    oh! sorry, you didn’tmean ‘aggressively’ you meant’economically’~pardon my mis-placedfears of superpower warit’s about money~the three millioncitizens of old Kyivput up for auction ~ n.b. Money talks, not peace talks? ‘Economic sanctions’. Nice. The arms industry clearly could do with a new market place. Afghanistan, Chechnya, Syria, so now Ukraine. There will be a pile on

  • on time

    houses for workersbecame homes of unemployedmiles from anywhere ~ n.b. Not much going on in the old pit villages, unless you can afford a car. As you can see, not many cars, although one has an L-plate. Too many places in England have been built over the years out on a limb, so when the

  • on gratitude

    no moment wastedbeautiful companionbring on tomorrow ~ CLP 22/01/2022

  • on Ukraine iii

    Pennines overlookdarts refining their dark artsmuscles flex, nerves twitch ~ n.b. As we move around in our masks, military aircraft just above our heads operate on stand-by. Out of Plan B into Wing Attack Plan R? ~ CLP 21/01/2022

  • on time

    Friday, what the Fbreak open the bub-ber-leybirthday train ride ~ n.b. Not mine. Happy Birthday, mush. “Twenty past Ten; get the Scooby Snacks owat!” n.n.b. “Owat” translates to ‘out’ further south in England. CLP