Christmas Eve is a particularly magical time, the excitement and expectation are a heady mix in both young and old. I remember as a child…
Today is National Poetry Day, which seems as good a day as any to revive ‘Poetically Speaking’. A feature which has been absent from these…
It’s normal for books and reading to fill many of my waking thoughts, but perhaps never more so than in the last few weeks. Taking part…
Adventure can mean many different things to many different people. Every day, decisions are made, choices are given, and taken and life takes us on…
One year ago this week I set off for Nepal. After 10 magnificent, gruelling breathtaking days of trekking through the incomparable Himalayas I made it to Everest…
Following my review of The Heroes’ Welcome it seemed appropriate to choose a poem from the first world war for this Poetically Speaking. Flicking through…
Today we are obliged to be romantic And think of yet another valentine. We know the rules and we are both pedantic: Today’s the day…
After yesterdays book review I couldn’t do anything else but feature perhaps Dylan Thomas most famous poem on today’s ‘poetically Speaking’. He wrote this whilst his father…
