I had been at my Art School for just over a month When I was asked to sketch a life model called Stephen Using only coloured pencils and charcoal All went well for for an hour until I was called To add her ginger maiden hair This occupation proved very difficult As I did not possess…

Does nature have any friends    Asked Little Gillian as she watched a procession of heavy lorries passing her farm An industrial estate was being built on the edge of the village near the abandoned railway station Which was now being used as one of the many site offices The cutting near the ponds has…

Although she was little more than a child Little Gillian often dreamt of removing her fathers shotgun from the shed And standing in the lane near their farm pointing it at the machines of destruction She would ask them nicely at first to turn around and return to where they had come from If refused…

When my imaginary friend left me fourteen years ago He told me that he had secreted a box of tricks somewhere in the house I initially searched for this box but was unable to find it so I gave up That was until today when I discovered his box of tricks by accident When I opened…

An obscure plate white with little decoration    Functional it was used frequently as it is quite worn    How many children chose your biscuits unaware    That many generations later unloved    You would be purchased as an innocent memory   From a junk shop hidden in a great city 

White against the smooth night sky You illuminate my room of rest I wish you would enter my dreams As I have many stories to share

In the last years of his life Franz Schubert composed his Ninth Symphony    However because of its length he was unable to finance its performance    He passed it to The Society of Friends of Music in Vienna    But it was considered to long and difficult to play and was soon cast aside    In…

From our Camden House we had extensive views of the sea Today my love and I admired the coloured waves Each was unique Pink Bright Yellow Sun Red Wolf Blue Bricks Green Shell The colours although sometimes quite similar Never repeated themselves It was a most refreshing experience

Tia Maria Gonevsky was the birth name Of the fifth wave to hit the Sandwich Shore It was easy to distinguish her from the other waves As she wore a sea lavender shift That revealed her pale blue breasts

the sea breeze is coming from a southerly direction it is hot and humid and the beach has become lazy a weathered winching post provides some shadow but the sun is quite harsh on your delicate wings in time the air will cool and i will release you to the care of the summer moon…