• on time

    conversation shiftsis anything different?spot the difference ~ n.b. Honestly, I couldn’t say. Fear? Fear of what? Mortality? CLP

  • on theatre

    transfixed, mind in spin”don’t stop ’til you’ve had too much”that’s entertainment ~ n.b. Luke Wright’s ‘The Remains of Logan Dankworth’ well worth seeing. On tour in the UK. CLP 23/02/2023

  • on time

    immersed in Ernauxeverything seen in contextlives in parallel ~ CLP 19/02/2023

  • on life

    temporal beingsphysical, spiritualexperience? dream? ~ CLP 16/02/2023

  • on Ukraine

    and while people diedefending their homes and landwordsmiths question them ~ n.b. I have been writing about Ukraine since the Russian invasion started. One thing I hope that I haven’t done is tried to explain from the West, or anywhere but my own perspective. It is inexplicable, unfathomable, unless you question why one man in

  • on time

    moonrise exposescrowded blocks, brick barriers lives without nature ~ n.b. Sun rises later now because of these ‘contemporary apartments’ that also diminish the scale of the Moon and night sky. CLP 06/02/2023

  • on time

    interleaved momentsmusic, football, familybound by weekend ~ n.b. These two characters, in a duo called Squat Lobster, sing their own rather silly Christmas songs all year round, except at Christmas, when they’re busy being family men. CLP 04/02/2023

  • on Ukraine

    come gather round yousons of Russia enrich soilwho don’t understand? ~ n.b. It is reported in the NY Times that Russian military losses are in excess of 200,000, not counting the captured. That land must hold a lot of value to Moscow if it is happy to spread so much blood and bone. CLP 03/02/2023

  • on Ukraine

    frost hard ground brokenanother soldier laid downdays filled with darkness ~ n.b. Is anyone out there still counting? Does any of this still count? CLP 30/01/2023

  • on time

    paramedics wait uppatients in car parks for hoursour chronic decline ~ n.b. All very well spending £ billions of the public‘s taxed money on an aircraft carrier which broke on sea trials, PPE that was useless and never used, bureaucracy to leave the EU, (our biggest trading partner), but nothing invested in hospitals for those