Category: Favourites
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The Open Sky
The crisp white clouds made the solid appearance of the blue sky even more striking. The rooftops on the hillside seemed to make the sky appear higher, further away, if that could be possible. The roads, pathways, walkways, gardens, steps and streams below seemed to be immediately within touching distance, they were so close, in…
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Reg’s Rehashed Monster Bash
Reg the vampire was kind to inviteMe to attend his musical nightAt his fancy lair down on Bridge LaneThat’s really a bungalow… which is quite insaneA one storey house with a wrought iron gateThat creaks quite badly for its rather new state.I set foot in the garden, and there on the lawn,Looking up at me,…
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Almost Blue
The evening air starts to cool down after quite a warm day. Not the warmest, but quite warm just the same.The trees are still, indicating only the slightest of breezes.The occasional shrill chirp can be heard from a hastily flying bird, dashing home to its nest to get settled for the night ahead.Children return home,…
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Before England’s Green and Pleasant Land
Back in the day when England was connected to the rest of Europe by land, Southern England was a desert. This was during the Ice Age, and mankind was just taking his / her / its first steps, competing with woolly mammoths, woolly hippos, woolly rhinoceroses, and woolly sabre-toothed tigers for food and places to…
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The Pyramids and Other Wonders
Kate Shrewsday’s recent post ‘Seven wonders’ couldn’t have appeared at a more apt time for me. Coincidentally, that is, as I’m in the process of telling a tale featuring the Greek Gods and vast journeys across the years. Also coincidentally (or maybe not) is the fact that the only remaining Wonder of the Ancient World…
The Mansionic Perspective 