This is the first chapter of something I have been working on for a while - a sort of simple country boy’s tale, set in the late 1980s.

It was while he was waiting for an underground train on the northbound Piccadilly Line platform at Leicester Square towards midnight on an autumnal Saturday that Tony became aware that, as he put it, his “rectum warning light” was flashing. He had been out carousing with some friends and had, as was absolutely…

Living with my boyfriend*, gives me many funny moments. One of which was today, when I watched him go to the shed, pull out a bit of broken cardboard, trudge up our garden hill, fall over, get back up, fall over, get back up and finally reach the top, cardboard still in hand. He then proceeded…

Snow is fun but not in the sun, You can sled in it and make a snowman in it Until the sun comes That is the poem I wrote when I was 8 years old which kept running through my mind while I shoveled 3 feet of snow and ice off my driveway. The only thing I could think, What was I thinking.…

A story about building a snowman and enjoying the moment.

Petals floated softly down like snowy feathers,To silently embrace the earth with  furtive frozen kisses.Things familiar shyly shape-shifted,  huddling under cover; to hide undiscovered until thaw time.So, winter blossom  fell with the falling…

Snow day! Hurray! So what shall we do with this momentous occasion where we are forced by public transport not go to work? Umm… I guess we’ll work from home.Technology: it hasn’t evolved enough to cope with snow, but has to enable us to work from home. I’ve had design files FTP’d to me and logged in on the…

Snow Day! And how did it start? at about 8am. So much for a lie in. I had a call from Dad to ask if i could go and help dig the car out from where he ditched it about 2 blocks away. he had managed to get the car going, and decided to drive to the city to close the school for the day (surley this could be done…

Wow - snow was my reaction when I woke this morning. And then the dilemmas began. Do I go to work - Is it safe to drive - Could I possibly walk however many miles to work. So to the news - oh good - the buses are not running - the trains are not running - the airports are closed. Decision made - back to bed. Then…

A very personal story about how far kindness can go ... literally.