Overthinking I have a small head, which is surprising when you consider how much thinking goes on in it. If brains were like biceps, I’d need a coracle for a hat. Not an oracle, though that might be more allegorical. When I need to know the answer – the right answer – instead of the […]
Library lust – 100 words
Quibblings – 100 words
60103 – 100 words
60103 Smaller, squarish, going nowhere soon, The Flying Scotsman pants and gasps burping steam. Wednesday afternoon commuters interrupt bad-tempered waiting – We are sorry to announce… (They aren’t, you know) – to smile and photograph. You’ll never guess… Passengers peer past the 15.36 Pendolino to the 1923 A-class locomotive, gleaming, glossy, the world’s most famous […]
Flowers, for me? 100 words
Flowers, for me? Oh, how lovely, I’ll get a vase Optimistic tulips on juicy stalks Peach-skin roses and irises with perky up-dos One-eyed narcissi and peony pompoms Don’t forget to change the water Well-behaved calendula and carnations calling for clean white linen Kindly stocks play an overture Oh, how lovely! They’re lasting well Painstaking tissue […]