Tea and biscuit

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Only one biscuit

something to look forward to

highlight of my day

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by Scooj

Memories

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Filled with a warm glow

recalling untroubled times

when we were children

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by Scooj

Attitude

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Must do what we can

nature and climate crises

can do what we must

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by Scooj

Glastonbury tickets on sale

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Camping on the site

sucking life and hope away

try again next year

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by Scooj

Deck chairs

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Cabinet shuffle

dusting-off an ex-PM

an empty barrel

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by Scooj

  • I have recently tried to veer away from politics, but today has been too momentous to pass without some comment. At last, we see the back (for now) of the racist agent provocateur Suella Braverman as Home Secretary, to be replaced by the inept and underwhelming James Cleverly. His post of Foreign Secretary has been filled by former PM, architect of austerity and the EU Exit referendum (who was heard to sing ‘tum te tum’ as he returned to the door of No 10 after his resignation speech). David Cameron isn’t even an elected member of parliament and is the subject of an ongoing serious fraud investigation – furthermore Sunak has had to make him a Baron so that he can sit in the House of Lords to take up his office (there were 350 Conservative MPs Sunak could have selected from, but not a single one of them met the bar presumably). You couldn’t make it up. Other ministers and Secretaries of State have been shuffled, one of which will have direct implications for my own work. Surely, surely the Conservative party is utterly washed-up and should give the country what it wants, a general election.

Diapause

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The webs are all gone

spider mating season done

hiding and brooding

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by Scooj

The visit

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An old man declines

this strong man now so fragile

our hug long lasting

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by Scooj

Downpour

Priddy Green, Somerset, October 2023
Priddy Green, Somerset, October 2023

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Dampness grips the air

sharp showers and prolonged rain

an English autumn

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by Scooj

Phantom opera

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Nightmare too vivid

heart racing, thorax thumping

light on, reset, calm

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by Scooj

  • Writing this in the depth of the night to distract myself from the horror of my dreams. Too unsettled to return to sleep.

Happy place

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I am transported

to the dunes where insects buzz

just for a moment

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by Scooj