Hey – cue the Mexican hat dance , da da da da   da  – da  da da da  – da da …..I see men with large sunshadey sombreros doing Mariachi classics, handle bar moustaches drooping to their waist. A floury taco shell filled with minced meat and chilly that bites your tongue off and the [...]

Where would we be without Aesop I say? Surely everyone knows the tale of the Hare and the Tortoise.  Yep, there’s the super successful entrepenurial, high flying Hare, dressed up in his wall street pin striped suit, barreling along toward what he assumes might be his first billion, and there’s the Tortoise plugging away at [...]

Was it really ready yet? That was the question that seemed to be grating like a cement mixer at the front of everyone’s mind. There’d been a month of rehearsal and argy and bargy and tweaking and tuning and now the evening was upon them All the big names would be there, the local press, [...]

Mulling around the table like restless cattle before feeding. Not so much a committee as a directive coming on the air. He arrives and hands round sheets of paper hot off the photocopier -eyes periscope over the’agenda. Of course we’re all communists here in the collective, so there’s really no ‘boss’. A tea bag left [...]

Why I ever thought it would work for me I don’t know. It might have been something about overcoming my fear of water, that grey changing stuff that has unplumbed depths, or maybe it was sheer boredom, but I joined the sailing club- I was skipper of the Blue Ant-  I recall now I joined [...]

Clap trap, gibberish, mumbo jumbo, Like someone’s mouth is moving but the sense is lost it all hits your ears like a wet tea towel, a big ‘galumph’ of senselessness. Sometimes it’s a bamboozlement of bullshite, but other times it might be someone rabbiting on about something they know intimately and they think you will, [...]

Remember those ‘pencil’ cases or boxes we used to cart around from class to class? Clamped somewhere between a folder, your body and your arm, a limpet at your side  angling for the next class. You’d get a pencil out, in its red shining glory and discover the nib has been nipped off in transit, [...]

Wash and wear- almost sounds as if it’s something out of a science fiction novel – Imagine the washing machine spinning away on its bearings with a high speed whine, stopping, opening the yawing lid and wearing the goods right then- ironed and pressed- Impossible or not? Has someone thought of it- do i need [...]

Do I need to mention jackhammers, demolition balls swinging from side to side inside my head,  a barrage of explosions on the Somme – in fact the whole first world war is replaying right inside my head. Dead neurons littering the battlefield, consciousness just a series of pockmarked craters through a hazy veil of fog. [...]

Perched steady sitting, squatting, brooding, eyes half open in freeze frame slowness, cover of eye milky white then that intelligent piercing look. Not to say they are intelligent, that just seems to be the myth. Tawny Frogmouths  a shock of beige and brown feathers, nesting in a tree across from my best friend’s apartment, bunched [...]