I used this, appropriately credited, in a school just before Christmas. I got them to do ‘the beat’ while I did it. I also changed Game Boy/ Mortal Kombat for the audience. I like how you can really accentuate some …

Today, not much prose, but a poem. It’s October half term round these parts and for the past 11 years, even pre kids, I have taken this week off. This poem says a lot about the self imposed stress that …

Rule 4 of study spring cleaning: regrets I’ve had a lot.

I have never been someone who has disallowed people from having particular music at a funeral. I wonder about the level of pomposity, self-importance and insensitivity that would be …

I don’t ‘do’ poetry much: so two poetry posts in 2 days are rare, nay unique.

The only poet I have knowingly been to see live is Stewart Henderson. I was rivetted: even though it was many years ago, it …

Monday evening, the Parish Church graveyard. A burial of ashes from a tragic funeral I led a few weeks ago. I’m looking round the graveyard- where I once saw stones, I now see people that I knew or relatives of …