Category Archives: Truth / Lies
Night View from the M62
I am beginning to sound like a travel blogger, not a bad thing I hope. This week I had the honour of travelling up and down the M62 on two separate journeys, neither of which were Bradford (you will know what I mean if you have been paying attention). This […]
Tolstoy’s not so tall short stories
First, I am amazed by a phenomenon that occurs once in a while, it happens every now and again and always bemuses me, it’s simple but quite extraordinary, I think. Explanation, I haven’t been to Bradford for many a year and even then I have only been for meetings from work, never […]
Hard Times = Facebookism?
Hard times, (not the Dickens novel, I mean the financial crisis/credit crunchiness that goes round in circles), the political application of the word austerity, relatively high unemployment, public unease (here, we are not quite at the unrest stage), often bring about changes in music, art, fashion etc. New movements, a new way of thinking and […]
The Sound of Restoration
Remember David from Harlech Beach? He’s grown up. The Sound of Restoration Hey Joe, where you goin’ with that gun in your hand?[i] Hey Joe, I said where you goin’ with that gun in your hand? The advantage of having the repeat function meant the music could blare continually without […]
Ignore rule
Shall we talk poetry? Many will probably now tune out, but I see poetry and short stories as the way forward for literature, everyone is busy many say they don’t have time to read, jobs, looking for jobs, daily chores and living a life tend to use up our time in large chunks […]
Harlech Beach on Lino
Harlech Beach on Lino Used to be a sweet boy* Holding so tightly To Daddy’s hand The recently purchased DAB radio should look out of place on the 1950’s solid oak sideboard but because out of fashion things are now in fashion things it actually looked at home, it’s shadowy […]
Timepiece
Tony Harrison is a favourite of mine, his voice is blunt, warm and relevant. This poem inspired me to write a short story, hope I’ve done it some justice. First, the poem. Under the Clock, from new Poems by Tony Harrison, Penguin Books 2005 Under Dyson’s clock inLower Briggate was […]
A Circle Doesn’t Have to be Round
I have just had the rare experience of enjoying two consecutive T.V programmes one after the other-no not Coronation Street then East Enders but a BBC dramatisation of the early years of the photographer David Bailey and his relationship with Jean Shrimpton, followed by a documentary showing his continued art and life. […]
Focus Literature – The Ghost Room
The Ghost Room ‘There was a man dwelt by a churchyard’ began Elvis, relaxed and cool the party elected him to tell his ghost story first. As if gathering round a baby in a manger, Elvis’s audience sprinkled themselves liberally over the genuine sheepskin rugs in front of the fire. Elvis […]
Aldi rips the red dress
Like Adverts? Like Aldi adverts? They have fast become favourites, enjoyable bits of whimsey, but is that all they are? In these days where Capitalism is crashing around our ears and crushing our bank balances we all need to save a few bob, we also need to be mindful of the reinforcement […]
