Horizon scanning

Horizon scanning

It is not lost on me that as a poet who loves words and relies on metaphor has become tired by the overuse of terminology in the workplace. Perhaps it is that these terms are banded about with such high frequency across all the sectors that it’s become another noise...
Cheers Drive

Cheers Drive

Roots are everything. They draw you back. When the sap runs back down it returns to the roots, looking to be nurtured, seeking renewal. Memories draw up overlapping lines of time, merging, criss-crossing across the landscapes of Bristol and Somerset and bringing me...
Redemption Revisited

Redemption Revisited

Sunday dinner be good, try not to sin on no account become angry, try not tofeel guilty that your powers cannot extend to prevent bad weather, neverthelesshold off the rain, stop the car from breaking down and your family with it at whatever cost keep your little...
Swans, elephants and egg shells

Swans, elephants and egg shells

I recently attended an event for carers who also work. It could be that folk care for those who are young, or who are elderly or with a long term condition which affects their daily living, whilst at the same time needing to work to make ends meet, yes, and also to be...
If I said magical

If I said magical

In this year I have tried to be especially open to discovery. I have endeavoured to be curious. In so doing, in experiencing new, in being changed, I might try to explain it, in order to share it. But then in the explanation of something remarkable, there is...