Harry jolted awake as the front door slammed. Jenny looked flustered as she deposited a cardboard coffee cup on the table and shrugged...

I opened my eyes. Slowly, millimetre by millimetre, until I could see a smudge of blue sky through the dusty haze; a soupy mist which...

White door. Plastic. No number New carpets over stone floors Cracked paint on windowsill 90’s radiators   Paint job on old wallpaper...

Back in January 2023, we took a stroll over Parlick to admire the views of the West Lancashire coastline from the plateau summit of...

Spring green Sky blue Primrose yellow Nature's hue Blossom pink Sparrow brown Iris purple Nature's crown Hawthorn white Heron grey...

You seem barely alive with your hollowed out trunk You can't stand up straight, are diminished and shrunk Anorexic branches, blackened...

Bourne in mid-May, it's almondy scent Ushers joy and ambition in silent consent A blanket of white as far as the eye As Hawthorn...

Its 6am and the sun is just rising A peachy hue on the distant horizon I raise my head, then stretch out and blink Yes, today will be the...

Ne'er speak the names of the fairie folk who bide 'neath the hawthorn tree For fear their benevolent ways may turn and their mischief be...

She awoke early. She had dozed into an easy slumber around midnight, lulled by the soothing call of the Tawny Owl in the field behind the...

Another delightful spring day in April! We have been so blessed with the weather so far this year, and what better reason do we need to...

Out of bed and into the shower Ablutions done, we've got an hour! Husbands gone - this week on earlies Wake the boy and then the girlies...

It was back in June 2022 that we walked the first half of The Sandstone Trail, a walk that turned out to be five miles further than the...

The unseasonable warmth of March has tempted us to get out and about, despite - or maybe because of - the run of bad health that Tony has...

It's been a year of two halves! Work and pleasure, hope and desperation, health and then sickness. Our marriage vows have certainly been...

Sing it; you know the tune! It's beginning to look a lot like springtime Everywhere you go Take a look at the flowerbeds, snowdrops...