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 […]
I knew, of course, that it was coming. At the time, all that sunlight that filled the skies of July and August, and “o’erbrimmed” the horizons of the days and on into autumn, seemed plentiful enough to last forever. I, […]
I feel them first. I always do, for that is how they introduce themselves – timidly. Perhaps I’ll be sitting there in my pyjamas, drinking a cup of tea, when one of them gently creeps in through a window left […]
My mobile phone, entirely of its own volition, seems to have formed the habit of taking me back into the past. I’m not entirely sure as to why it’s started doing this, but it seems apt seeing as we’re here […]
I don’t know exactly what it is that makes this hillside spot so peaceful. Perhaps it’s the fact that I’m up above the town and have a bird’s-eye view of all the business and busyness of life trundling on below […]
Anyone who knows me well knows that I am a simple man; the attention grabbing in-your-face flashiness of many of those foibles treasured by modern society are simply not for me. Seemingly not designed or intended to last, many of […]
Killing time, we ambled aimlessly on our evening stroll, extending our looping circuit around the streets of Porthcawl, hands clasped around takeaway cups of coffee to warm our fingers as we nattered about this and that and nothing much at […]
Value is relative, I suppose. In what do I find most value? My daughter’s sense of humour; sharing a bottle of wine or two of a summer evening with my wife; a long walk on a crisp, clear day. I […]
Whenever I used to hear the term “Off the grid”, I always thought that it meant living a more environmentally-conscious existence – doing everything possible to limit one’s consumption of energy and resources, getting back to nature. True, it does […]
