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All too often you hear people call for the return of National Service. A two year stint in the Armed Forces that will apparently cure all ills. The reasoning I suppose is sound, but the reality something completely different. Let’s look at the reasons why these calls are made in the […]

Nobody can go through life without encountering stress. It will happen to the hardest and softest of people but where it differs in every case is how the stress is handled. If you do not develop a sound technique for dealing with it then you are in serious trouble because […]

All my friends were there that summers day as we laughed, we drank and smoked, Maybe it was was always this way with friends, but in me is just evoked A question I needed answering, a truth I had to find What I really meant to them, and would they […]

No hidden lovers go there, giggling and petting, away from a parent’s prying eyes, Cupids playground is closed now, eviction served by a Swastika and machine gun. Overhead the children’s painted kites and the greedy gulls have taken their leave, Metal wings swoop now, not for half eaten sandwiches and discarded […]

Saddle sore and weary, I cast a glance to the sky, As I alight from my steed, my trusted mount. We stand aside, a whispered word of gratitude Acknowledged with the cock of an ear and the pursing of lips. Our journey now halted, postponed by natures call. I stare upwards […]

Saddle sore and weary, I cast a glance to the sky, As I alight from my stead, my trusted mount. We stand aside, a whispered word of gratitude Acknowledged with the cock of an ear and the pursing of lips. Our journey now halted, postponed by natures call. I stare upwards […]

 THE LEAF  This poem I penned nearly seven years ago, when I was sat on a balcony in sunny Augusta. It was a good time to be alive, and this brings back so many memories of a time that was special.  You cannot predict the flutter Of the leaf upon […]

I’ve been threatening to do a blog on the 8o’s for a while. I know I can be verbose and stretch a sentence into a page so I have decided to fragment the 80’s, a serialisation if you will. First up, the top 50 films of the decade, in my […]

If you can hold a stead upon your angry tongue, Choking on someone else’s ill informed untruth, If you can stay revenge’s readied hand, when it seems about to strike, Against lies and defamation, and slander so uncouth. If your body does not falter at the ebbing tide, Though emotions cramp every stroke, […]

There are definitive moments in your life, instances where you encounter something or someone for the first time and it will actually change your entire perspective, alter pre conceived ideas you may have previously held and make you feel incredibly humbled. I have had a few of these moments and […]