In Kingsdown in Kent you will find some unusual graffiti On the frosted windows of the male toilets Tibet has been sprayed on the said windows Why this was done is beyond me and most of mankind As Kingsdown is a small village not far from Walmer Castle That faces the sea and even in […]

I am rewriting parts of The Roads to Freedom The ending will change as Mathieu survives the war When the church tower is shelled the bell falls over him He is injured and rendered unconscious And is not found by the Germans who search the ruins Later he is found quite by accident by the […]

Do you have sinful thoughts Most of us would answer in the negative As we are ashamed of these thoughts But I confess that I often have sinful thoughts These never vary as there is really only one This thought is that I share the world With people I like and those who like me

Anna Yes When you walked into town this morning did you see an American flag next to one of the beach side properties Yes Do you think that Americans own the property I would imagine so It reminded me a little of Cape Cod You have never been to Cape Cod I have been there […]

I drowned today but not in water it was beauty which had overwhelmed me silently from within there was no fight left in me it had never existed in the first place  

Sometimes when driving I cease driving and stop my car I find a field and sit on a rock or even a grassy bank And think about how alive I am and how due to a small error On my behalf or because of a slight miscalculation by a truck driver I might cease living […]

Small Homicides was sitting on her bed She was wearing only a grey tee shirt Which she knew was exposing her maiden hair As it was rather short and a size too small   She knew that the woman in the opposite flat Was watching her whilst pretending to read A book of erotic poetry […]

It has been ten years since I visited this cricket ground Nothing much has changed apart from the clubhouse Which has enjoyed a lick of paint and now looks quite splendid Although I do not drink I was given a local ale on my arrival As I am well remembered in these parts as I once hit […]

I was reading Martin Heidegger’s Being and Time in Ramsgate yesterday It was hot and really I was just loafing through this vast work and enjoying an ice cold Coke when an American couple sat at the table opposite me For some reason I found the woman looking at me or rather what I was […]

For the last week or so I seem to have lost my senses The weather has been hot and have not wanted to waste it As when the cooler weather arrives (and mark me it will) I will think of these sun drenched days with a great sadness   I will stop my travels now […]