He squinted. The fat girl had been talking continuously for 2 minutes and 43 seconds, which to him seemed like hours. Her face seemed very far away at the end of a dark tunnel. … Read more
Jack
Kind and Kin
Kind and Kin
It was just after midnight when Tabitha, quickly and silently made her way down the stairs. She paused at the bottom to listen.… Read more
Vaquero Monologue
“I was tricked.
And now I can see that it wasn’t you who tricked me or anybody else I accused along the way. It was me that did it. … Read more
Wings
Wings
I knocked gently at the attic room door. There was no answer. I knocked again a little harder this time and I heard a short grunt from within.… Read more
A Dormouse Tale
Seven hundred miles away, just outside the small village of Penne. On the edge of a very large oak forest in the south west of France, an edible dormouse named Bernard, waddled across the wooden floor in the attic of the old farmhouse. … Read more
Banana Bread (which is actually cake, not bread)
Classic & easy
Ingredients:
4.4oz/125g Butter
5.2oz/150g Golden caster sugar
1 tsp Vanilla extract
1 egg, beaten within an inch of its life
2 very ripe Bananas
6.7oz/190g Self raising flour (we like things that are self-sufficient)
1/4 cup/2oz/60ml Milk ~ OR replace the milk with rum (Appleton is THE best)
1 tsp of Pimento (or mixed spice)
1-2 tbsp Demerara sugar for top
4oz/which is like, 113.something… Read more
Same Same But different – Church in Bangkok
I’m sat at the back of a church in Bangkok. We, my son and I, came here with our friend because we love her and we know it will make her happy.… Read more
Friendship
This is not really a cuss but It’s going here. So there.
I just want to say a thing about friendship.
If you’re my friend, then I want you to know how much you mean to me. … Read more
Time Spent
Someone somewhere is smoking
and the smell is glorious to me
true comfort
I am reminded of the safety of childhood
a slow summer afternoon
My feelings have changed.… Read more
