Tag: Freedom
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Pumpkinhead
In the field.All day long.No one near.Waiting.Watching.Hanging around.I’m meant to be fearsome. Frightening.Instead I have to wear a bright green striped shirt that is two sizes too large for me.Oh, they’ve stuffed it.With tickly, itchy straw. They’ve tied a thick piece of string around my waist to hold my trousers up so tightly it’s hard…
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Up, up and away!
First things first… White Rabbits for October, the eighth month, although now in modern times it is the tenth month. The second month of the ‘Bers, the second month of Autumn, and the antepenultimate month of the year. Where has the time gone? Luckily Betelgeuse is still with us, so that’s good! Hopefully that will…
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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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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…
