One last snow post for the moment, as rain is forecast now and they say it may all clear soon. An earlier version of this poem was posted a couple of years ago; I haven’t made huge changes, though I’ve added line breaks and tweaked it a little.
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Tag: winter
discussing whether
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a hook to hang things on
I typed “a hook” into the Google search box and was surprised to see that the first auto-complete option was “a hook in writing”.
At the moment, I have no idea of how to grab my readers’ attention half as effectively as this photo is likely to, nor do I have any ideas for a poem that might be hung alongside the image.
So I guess I’ll just have to leave you all in suspense…
village scenes
I went for a brief walk this morning and was struck by how eminently English** everything seemed.
First of all, although not actually raining, it was so dark and wintry that the streetlights were on despite the fact it was nearly 10am:
from a railway carriage
In case anyone who read Boxing Day (posted on December 26th) might be envious of me enjoying glorious sunshine on an exotic beach, let me clarify that it was an old poem, and, as is usually the case, I am not the narrator.
To clarify further, this is a photo taken from the window of a train I was travelling on yesterday:
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don't confuse the narrator 