Afternoons in the back yard in white cricket  pants. The ball coming in at reckless speed while over head the sun beat down  with the force of kick drum at a rock concert, drilling into our heads, our backs, our necks and our arms – but we didn’t care – yes we could get sunburn [...]

Down Torquay way, there’s a B & B we stayed at one time, an unusual arrangement with the place being like an additional room added to the top of the building – entry was through a security mesh door that clattered shut and a normal wooden door, but then there was a passageway that led [...]

They live on a strict diet of suspicion, sandwiched between two thick layers of intrigue and spiced with a well meant layer of subterfuge. Scanning the world, scanning the crowd, with their binocular eyes looking for something out of place, out of the ordinary – zooming in for a macro view. One day their will [...]

Full of secrets and hidden things, mysterious places, other worlds, curious compartments a trapdoor leads to interesting places – lofts, coal shuttles, basements, escapes…. I see a metal plated door at an angle, it’s got a squeaky hinge that rotates to the left, it squeaks like a pump that’s almost run dry, and then shudders [...]

Just this morning evidence of its presence, a yellow stain on the edge of the untainted white fingers of the can opener, a yellow stain, like nicotine – should I be quizzing it? Asking if it’s started smoking? Last night the kitchen was full of curried air, It wasn’t an active ingredient I added, but [...]

When you push that button on the front of your stereo, or ignite that Television with the remote control. When you start your car, or pick up your phone. It all begins right here with the circuit board. It’s a submarine running on silent just beneath the plastic surface of your favorite consumer product, no [...]

As the lights came up it took the corner position just to the left of the drums, the trumpet player counted them in and a slow swinging river of music started to burst from the banks of the stage. A purple light reflected in mauve coolness from the polished wood and a series of Cool [...]

From a distance it could be a yellow monopoly house, small and undefined but get closer and the scale grows it into a two story monster, as if you’re approaching a monolith in a desert. Up close you can see how it’s all been built of bricks, yellow bricks of hay and straw. To a [...]

Dad manned a Pom Pom gun in the Navy, scanning the skies for the enemy. He and his compatriots would engage a Focke-Wulf or a Stuka that would howl down from the grey. They’re called Pom Pom guns because that’s the sound they make as they pummel the air in an exercise yard drill. Bullets [...]

You know those side show rides like the ‘gravitron’ , where you start out flat and it spins and gets faster and turns on its side and you’re pinned against the wall spinning at multi miles per hour almost out of control, well that’s what jealousy’s like . It takes over, it pins you against [...]