I know you’re still there, somewhere.
A random television channel flicked over to Jimmy Nail singing a ditty about the Big River. It made me think of the shipyards, the cavernous space in between the banks, and of the challenges you presented to it.
I made you drive over that river so many times; for the […]
A wonderful sea-blue, spotty material covers the hardwearing corners, which have been strengthened by fibres and boards and starch. It is now starting to get a little tatty and covered in detritus at the edges. In its brand-new heyday, the pristinely shining multi-coloured pages of thick paper bound within its shell would literally […]
Red and gold. Green and tan. Firm and soft. Smooth, yet the sharpest….
The portraits contained within those four walls were displayed for a sense of family. The sense was all that survived beyond years of forgetting. The hope shouldn’t have been lost; it would have been a distant dream, one […]
On a visit to her house, the visitor would always be shown her garden. She was proud of her work tending to the errantly growing grass, constantly struggling to break free of its enforced rectangular shape, into a freeform verdant fringe. The sandstone bricks enclosed a small hill of earth around the perimeter, full […]
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