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Category Archives: Non-fictions

How the Empire fell

Thursday, March 26, 2015

My Samsung Galaxy tablet (3) just turned ‘KCMG’ into ‘KPMG’.

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A motto for mine own generation

Tuesday, February 10, 2015

habitabamus domum magnam

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Epigraph (after Ondaatje)

Monday, December 1, 2014

K:  Am I ‘K’ in your book? A:  No.

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NB – To the driver of the ice-cream van

Tuesday, September 2, 2014

If you drive around here one more time while I am listening to Beethoven I swear I will come for you. Yours, etc.

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jus sayin’

Tuesday, September 2, 2014

jus soli jus sanguinis jus poetarum (jus sayin’)

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Brilliant idea for a short story, last night:

Sunday, August 3, 2014

Anyone remember what it was?

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Hen-do

Saturday, June 28, 2014

When my fiancée went out to her hen-do (the first one) I stayed at home, watched some rugby, wrote a poem, and did the dishes.

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To the agony aunt at The Lancet

Thursday, June 26, 2014

Mary, Mary, quite contrary, how does my chestbone crack?!

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b&w joke

Friday, June 6, 2014

An Irish priest, a Jewish doctor and a Hungarian photographer are on the beach. [click] Omaha Beach.

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Biograffiti

Tuesday, May 13, 2014

from the index of a popular anthology* U. A. FANTHORPE was born in Kent. BILLY COLLINS is the author of six books of poetry including… Taking Off Emily Dickinson’s Clothes. IAN MCMILLAN is poet-in-residence for Barnsley FC. TOMAS TRANSTRÖMER… suffered a serious stroke which left his speech impaired and his right side paralysed…. [He] continues to […]

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