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  • Two Chopsticks and a Pencil for the Hyacinths

    Two Chopsticks and a Pencil for the Hyacinths

    A lovely neighbour brought over the gift of a bowl of hyacinths when the year was brand new, and now, in the very last weekend of January, three pale yellow flowers have bloomed gloriously and our hallway is filled with a sweet and spicy scent that we have grown to appreciate (we weren’t sure, at Read more

  • Falling Hyacinths and It’s Still January

    Falling Hyacinths and It’s Still January

    So here I am at the end of another week.  Here we are.  I said to Andrew (my husband) that it feels like such a long time since we’ve seen our daughter and we were astonished to discover, when we looked at the calendar, that’s it’s only been three weeks since she went back to Read more

  • Collages for 2021

    Collages for 2021

    This year, I intend to make more collages and poem collages to add to those I made in 2020, and previously, which I’ve shown you in several posts, such as Collage Poems (from 2017); Once Upon a Lockdown (sequence of nine prose poems/collages from 2020); Collages of Exasperation (also from 2020).  In my collage work, Read more

  • December 2020 at And Other Poems

    December 2020 at And Other Poems

    I opened submissions at my poetry site And Other Poems in November, after a break of 20 months.  Over 700 poems arrived and I’ve been posting selected poems ever since.  I wrote about November poems here, and this post includes links to all of the poems posted in December, and some snippets. I hope you Read more

  • Reasons to be or not to be cheerful, or not. Or something.

    Reasons to be or not to be cheerful, or not. Or something.

    I was going to write about what ‘local’ means to you, that is, ask you for your definition of the word, since one week into a UK national lockdown, there are news reports about a police force fining people for driving somewhere to exercise.  During the first lockdown, in the spring, there were reports of Read more

  • Lockdown, Series Three

    Lockdown, Series Three

    During the first lockdown, in the spring, I went through a phase of posting a blog every day, using the hashtag Corona Diary (when I remembered).  I think I started off with gusto and petered out a bit towards the end.  We’ve just entered our third national lockdown in the UK and I don’t intend Read more