A late-night instalment of the blog as I’ve spent the whole day walking round the Kentmere Horseshoe in the mist and rain with two friends and the husband. I decided last weekend, after an enjoyable hiking session up Seatallan with…
Sunday Poem – Penelope Shuttle
Back to my bad habits of writing my blog late at night! My excuse today is that I’ve been in Lancaster running a 10k race. I’m not even going to play it cool, pretending to drop this in…
Sunday Poem – Keith Hutson
I’ve had a rough day today. I’ve spent most of it in bed with a horrible cold. I’ve been ignoring this cold since Thursday but I succumbed today and spent the morning feeling very sorry for myself. I didn’t get…
Poetry makes nothing happen
It has been a whole month since the last time I wrote on here – this is the longest time I’ve gone without blogging since I started. I didn’t plan to take a break, although at first it seemed necessary.…
2014 Review
Last night I got one of my many empty notebooks which live in my house and started to write down the name and date of all the Sunday Poets I’ve featured on this blog. I wanted a record of these…
2015 Residential Poetry Courses
It is quarter past midnight and once I’ve finished writing this, I’ll wake up and it will be the morning of New Year’s Eve. Tomorrow I’ve somehow managed to make my day quite busy but filled with nice stuff. I’ll…
Sunday Poem – Hilary Hares
It feels like it is only mid-morning but it is actually 1.30pm at the time of writing – I had a lovely long lie in this morning after a slightly full weekend. I have lots of news this week –…
Timetables, Readings and Traffic
Not a very exciting title I know – but it does sum up my week rather nicely. I have been on half term this week – but last weekend I drove back from Torbay Poetry Festival to my parents in…
