Daughter

She came into my life a wet little baby with a ready smile. Curly hair and bulbous blue eyes headlined her charm. The baby years flew past without much incident, but for a bee sting and lozenge-stuck-in-throat drama. Then she was a toddler joyfully engaged whatever game mummy and daddy…

Strangelove 1

I was only using you to get to me I looked into her shiny blue eyes and saw the reflection of my own blue eyes and although in those eyes love I felt an uncontrollably love, I often wondered if it was myself, I had fallen in love with. I…

notes on the house I never should have built

The foundation was a hard mix of digestive biscuits which bound together with quail eggs. What was I thinking? Building foundations are constructed with cement- have been for years! Usually, doors are made of wood or modern synthetic materials, but I commissioned a chocolatier to confect a dark chocolate door.…

Schizoid

Brian, surname, Crome, endured an entire schizoid  half hour oscillating between the poignant and the frivolous – an emotional rollercoaster to the cliché lovers. Two poached eggs on toast made a breakfast but one of those squelchy pleasure broke; warm yellow liquid meandered through the pores of the toast. Brian was…

Coffee Potty

I rub my eyes clean of plentiful sleep crust, waltz into the bathroom, slip on the tiles just enough to wake up. Into the shower I  follow my body. The sink plug hole belches and the hot water pipe gurgles. There’s nobody in the house so when I hear…

spy

The cliff was bothersome because it was dirty. That’s why I took certain steps.  I rolled out a long extension cable and attached a series of extension leads stretching half a mile back to my house, then plugged in my Ryobi RY142300 2300 PSI Brushless Electric Pressure Washer. Like…

step dilemma

Steps have two dimensions which effect the user- the depth of the stretcher and the height of the riser. When these dimensions are strangely designed the walker or runner is faced with the mildly irritating decision to either compress his one stride into two dainty ones or elongate his two…

funny house

I can’t recall the first thought or what images came into my head but when I heard my new travel kettle in full operation it made me snigger then laugh at loud like a scolded baboon. I grinned a little at the snaking cable attached to the hard plug…