BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! The shriek of the alarm clock shreds the darkness, leaving in tatters that lovely dream into which you had just settled, but there’s no time to feel bitter nor annoyed nor even groggy, for there are things […]
I saw the boy when I was walking around the grounds of the steelworks. I had only been working in the accounts department for a couple of weeks since I moved to Wales for a fresh start following the divorce. […]
I tend to find my contentment in life’s small things: the simple pleasures of home, a good glass of wine, a comfortable seat in the garden on a spring afternoon, an autumn walk kicking through leaves; as such, I am […]
“I’m bored”, declared my daughter Elle, as she came striding out into the garden, before flumping into a garden chair. I placed my book, pages down, onto the table. “What was that?” “I said I’m bored.” Well this was a […]
Anxious for a full day with Blodwyn, I practically ran over the uneven, weathered small boulders, jumped over clumps of ferns nestled in rock crevices, and slowed only to navigate the gushing bach dotted with verdant, moss covered slippery stones. […]
Rubbing my itchy stinging eyes, I struggled to shut the carriage window. Familiar specks of smudgy soot settled on my new coat. The chugging locomotive belching out filthy black steam and the acrid yellow smog from the steel works combined […]
Spring finally arrived, and when it did so, it came hesitantly, dithering and swithering between its noun form and its verb form, peeping out here and there from shadowy corners and straggly verges. Slowly at first, it seemed […]
December 2018, and it’s the end of my marriage. Scooping up the children and a geriatric terrier, we shuttled down the M4 corridor to begin our new chapter in West Wales. Riding the maelstrom of feelings that every separation brings, […]
On reading this title, the mental connotations can’t help but spring into life – thoughts of great motherships, gravitational fields, orbits and star-hopping borne from all those science fiction TV programmes, books, comics and films consumed as children and yet, […]
Where the needle-sharp air once cut through the nostrils, a new perfume arrives. Dampness, newness, strangeness, familiarity, freshness and a hundred other contrasting scents…all are thrown together into that strange melding pot of aromas that assails the senses before all […]
Temporarily felled by a recent car accident and consequent minor head injury, I have spent the last couple of weeks recovering. Mostly on the settee. This has caused much consternation in the pet camps, the cat is particularly put out […]
There are many types of silence. Not all of them are positive, such as those that seem to linger for an age following an awkward comment or when waiting for a telling-off to come, but silence, to me, most often […]
