Forecasts by Jean Kenaud There are berries this year on the holly. It wasn’t always so. They may simply be a forecast – forecast of…
This weekend, there will be carol services in churches up and down the land. I have lost count of the number of carol services I…
I have been mulling over what to share with you on National Poetry Day, and have had a lovely time this week flicking through some of the…
Much as I try to be positive and embrace each day, like many people when Monday morning dawns and another working week is looming, I…
Last week in an area of London I worked in for many years and know extremely well, a terrible tragedy occurred. The 24 storey Grenfell Tower was…
In case you hadn’t noticed its valentines day and as has become the tradition around here I like to share a suitably ‘romantic’ poem on…
The Inn Keeper of Bethlehem by Mariam Swinger ‘There’s no room at the inn,’ he told them ‘We’re full up, I am sorry to say.…
I’m a big fan of Wendy Cope and have featured other poems by her on these pages before. I have chosen’The Christmas Life” as this…
