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Continue reading →: Leisure by Henry Davies
What is this life if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare. No time to stand beneath the boughs And stare as long as sheep or cows. No time to see, when woods we pass, Where squirrels hide their nuts in grass. No time to see,…
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Continue reading →: Happy memories of Mum
Mum picked out this poem to be read by yours truly at her funeral this week: Afterglow by Helen Lowrie Marshall I’d like the memory of me to be a happy one. I’d like to leave an afterglow of smiles when life is done. I’d like to leave an echo…
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Continue reading →: Death doesn’t have to be so bad
Mum’s passing was made so much easier because of her positive attitude towards the inevitable. I was asleep in the private room at the precise moment she took her last breath, but my son woke me to tell me she had gone. What a brave lady, sadly missed by family…
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Continue reading →: Sexual Orientation Awareness
Having been on a gender identity training session some time ago, I signed up for sexual orientation awareness training with the same degree of interest. Statistics on self-harm, substance abuse and suicide among LGBT people are frightening. Homophobia hasn’t gone away and heterosexism assumes a superiority that heterosexuals have no…
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Continue reading →: Reorganisation
Some of you may have noticed the addition of two new pages Prose and Prose – drafts. I might have to rename the blog prosespinner….nah! Feel free to pass comment, feedback is much appreciated.
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Continue reading →: Inequality
The game of life is played on a sloping pitch. Those playing downhill have all the advantages of fortuitous starts in the game. Those struggling uphill might complain about their lot, but carry on battling because that’s the only game in town. Some players who have made it to the…
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Continue reading →: Line of Duty
Three police officers killed when their convoy carrying heroin was ambushed. So began last night’s first episode of series 5. Should they have stopped for the burning car and the woman pretending that her baby was trapped inside? Of course they should, but who was the leak within the police…
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Continue reading →: Why vote?
In our part of the world there is much disillusionment with politics and politicians. Some hark back to the good old days when those who controlled things in their areas were visible and easily identifiable by their attire. Combat jackets, balaclavas and sunglasses were de rigeur for anyone toting an…
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Continue reading →: Order order!
In this part of the world now known as Backstopland, we have been doing without elected representation for about two years. We continue to pay our MLAs for no particular reason. We have a Minister of State so out of touch with local feelings that in the middle of an…
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