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 […]

I purchased a glasses case for Jane yesterday It was of a William Morris design   I reached this beautiful decision Whilst paddling in Pegwell Bay   Where one can at low tide Walk across the sand flats   Whilst taking care to avoid quicksands And other natural hazards

I own a sea facing cottage on an unmade road It is about one hundred years old And was built as a summer retreat of a London solicitor It is said that he brought his mistresses here And there are written accounts of them swimming naked in the sea In 1968 when clearing out a […]

There is a fig tree near a sea facing inn The hot weather has not disfigured it

I sent three poems to my beautiful wife   These poems were full of love As two oceans separated us

An American flag flies next to a lane That is essentially English It brings colour to the ochre beach    

Anna I have just been to the beach Yes We have new beach furniture I know it was Daddy’s gift to us both Do you like it Yes and no Why no Because the old beach furniture was part of the beach It had rusted and aged with the passing years It was beach worn […]

my beautiful country has become polluted there is so little that I can do apart from dream of the Northern Lights   anon 

Anna Yes Did you attend naked lectures whilst at university No Why were you shy No Then why Because I never went to university