writing

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Wed, 08/04/2026 - 01:55
The totally ace online booksellers BookKind have chosen ‘How to Lay an Egg with a Horse Inside’ as their Non-Fiction Book of the Month for April. This is doubly good news because every copy sold via BookKind raises money for charity – just select from a range of charitable organisations when you order: https://bookkind.co.uk/book-of-the-month-home/ In…
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Wed, 08/04/2026 - 18:06
No Body’s Perfect his tennis elbowwas his Achilles heel and his Achilles heelwas on his athlete’s foot and his athlete’s footmade him down in the mouth and though the down in his mouthhe took on the chin, it became less a shot in the armthan a chip on his shoulder – so that when the…
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Mon, 23/03/2026 - 21:50
And Now for the Weather Today is set to be agreeably alliterative  across an assortment of areas although the occasional metaphor  may cause some faces to cloud.  Idioms will be coming down like stair rods in northern regions, while the south  may experience the odd outbreak of similes, like an unexpected shower of arrows.  In coastal, littoral, and…
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Thu, 26/02/2026 - 21:59
I’m reading poems at a few literary festivals this year – including ones in Keswick, Guernsey, Wrexham, Tunbridge Wells, Dorchester-on-Thames, Filey and Leek. Here’s a pic which provides an efficient summary of such matters: Next month’s show at Words on the Water has sold out, but tickets are on sale for the other festivals. More info…