SEND IT BACK Catch up Friday (and because writing is more fun that other things I should probably be doing). A quickly-written but heartfelt piece today (for yesterday, day seven) on behalf of me and I suspect many other road-users… Product Recall In an unprecedented cross-brand move the producers of multiple makes of luxury cars have issued an urgent statement in which they state a range of failure, including: indicators which refuse to signal anything but total disrega

This became the nickname for my Mum, so my step-dad made her an actual Mothership logo – AWESOIME. Here’s my Day 26 offering, from Jo Bell’s lovely prompt to write a sonnet (or something sonnet-like) about your parents, distributing the lines across your Mum (ABABCD on Sandy, then), then your Dad (CDEFEF on Jeremy, then) and finally, you – for the last couplet (GG on me, then). It was a fairly quick effort – been a busy day at work! But I managed to keep to the structure – an

Indeed she is not. At least we all have death in common though, eh? Off-prompt today, but will be writing a Blessing (after Jo Bell’s prompt) and a Welcome Poem (from NaPoWriMo’s prompt) for a thing I’m doing at Hyde Park Picture House next Sunday. Neither seemed quite right today… For there was a little funeral, as you may have noticed or heard about (I did not want to bless Thatcher’s life or passing, nor welcome the funeral, really – I’m saving those for something else). S

A magick key (for an inadvertently key-shaped poem) A quick one this: I don’t often get slushy and when I do, it tends to be short! And this is very much in that vein. The prompt for the 12th was to write a list of things you would want to say but would never (thereby, of course, saying them) – so this started from there and became a brief love poem of things unsaid: Want/Need or, Doors/Keys I want to say I didn’t know that before you, I didn’t realise there was so much I did