Anagram Fiasco
This morning, as yours truly sought to entertain myself during a barren hour in-between breakfast and scratching around the place, I secured refuge in creating anagrams from the word COVID. […]
Match Of The Day
Yesterday, I bought my little canine buddy Coco a soft ball dog toy. On presenting her with this padded sphere yours truly was escorted back to my childhood home in […]
Spiders On Gars
This essay is the 1,900th blog manifesting from my capricious mind since embarking on this literary odyssey in March 2015. While sitting at my patio table, in close proximity on […]
Birthday Boy
It would’ve been my old man’s 84th birthday today. At 9am precisely, and in no particular order, he’d have commenced a ring around of his three offspring in turn. After […]
The Glove From Above
This evening, I’ll be partaking in a virtual quiz with a group of Gateshead buddies. As I write I’ve no idea of the question format quizmaster Jeff Patterson will adopt. […]
Would I Lie To You?!
Endeavouring to impart a little levity during these worrying times, I’ve mulled over various strategies in which I could maybe raise spirits amongst my readership, along with friends/followers on social […]
Make Thee Mightier Yet
As I perch in self-isolation, whilst endeavouring to reduce the risk of contracting COVID-19, I’m pondering who was the metaphorical Pandora who opened the box to unleash this odious coronavirus […]
Defiance
It’s a few years since I’ve penned a sonnet. However, in the isolation of a West Yorkshire dining room, this evening I felt moved to quill prose about the prevailing […]
Survivors
Within the next few days I’ll reach a couple of milestones on this enduring blogging odyssey. Firstly, today’s narrative is the 1,800th piece I’ve penned since, five years ago, embarking […]
You’ve Gotta Laugh….. Erm, Hopefully!!
Watching the prevailing global shenanigans brought forth by COVID-19 make […]
Nice To See You…..
I’ve just undertaken my inaugural piece of gardening for 2020, with a couple hours cutting back shrubs, hoeing and cutting the front lawn. In all honesty, the borders and grass […]
Held A Costa
It’s Saturday morning and yours truly is seated within the open plan balcony coffee house in the White Rose Shopping Centre (WRSC), which’s become a habitual locale for these daily […]
I’m Feeling Better!!
Last week, in the narrative Never A Crossword, yours truly relayed observations of an affable bunch of pensioners whose behaviour I witnessed while sitting on the adjacent cafe table. Footnote – […]
Better Than No Dream
Striving to constantly evolve as an erudite wordsmith and thinker, I’ve recently began harbouring aspirations of producing more intellectually philosophical output. My normal dabbling into philosophy, which has sprung forth […]
The Good New Days
Yesterday evening I ventured to the Leeds City Varieties theatre in the company of my twenty-something son Jonny. My eldest offspring kindly treating his old man to an evening of surreal comedy […]
Glass House Dwellers Strike Again!!
Yesterday, on reading 40 year old TV presenter Caroline Flack had taken her own life I felt moved to broach the subject of depression in essay. My words not laid […]
