This has been an slow idle summer seemingly without end But it will end quietly and slowly as the year matures

The leaves of many trees have already turned But autumn is far from our thoughts

I first heard his voice on my grandmothers record player On a visit to her country cottage I asked who he was as I loved his soft voice And was told that his name was Al Bowlly   I enquired whether I might see him in concert But Grandma told me that he was dead…

Late August flowers still bright Move quietly in the balanced breeze

I live by the sea in a large house With extensive sea views From most of the windows Yet I often sit on broken chairs And stare at the vacant horizons   The instability of these chairs Are there to remind me That not everything in the world Can be considered beautiful And that journeys…

Dearest Dearest Anna If only our lives were as exciting as that But I can never see little Kingsdown becoming a bolt hole for hit men and women even if they are as beautiful as Penelope You write such good fictions so much better than me I have some good news and some bad news…

Dearest Anna I feel so empty without you and cried myself to sleep last night At about three I woke up and wrote a fiction Here goes and please tell me what you think of it It is quite late and I am giving Jasmine and Penelope a lift to the station tomorrow so nighty…

Darling Anna In advance please forgive me for the shortness of this mail as I am expecting the doctor at any time What you might not know was that two Moroccans were killed in the car crash that injured my father Daddy says that they were on the wrong side of the road when they…

Dearest Anna I must say that I am missing you so dreadfully but there are times that even sisters have to be parted and this is one How is your Daddy and so far away from home you must feel like a lost child there in Tangier Are there any plans to bring your father…

the zen killers is the title of my latest movie it is about a family of hit guys and girls who earn cash by killing or not killing people   each actor in my movie has raven hair and raven eyes and degrees in philosophy and mathematics they also are fluent in french and the…