Some entries as done the weekend I left my cousin and was on the train back to Toronto ( Read more... )

Sunday didn't quite see the Swiss family Reinhardt descend upon Wantsead flats fun fair with Robert 'my Mum reckons he looks like Elton John' Yates - instead after our traditional Sunday afternoon lashfest, it all got very drunken and a tad lairy, me losing my patience with my Nan's emotional blackmail and playing various grandchildren off against ( Read more... )

It's just occured to me.
Hand on heart, I can say that
genuinely I dig
Sylvia Plath and Leonard Cohen.

I know the bottom, she says. I know it with my great tap root:
It is what you fear.
I do not fear it: I have been there.

I too, have been on ghost train

with Robert Yates .

It's the traditional Wanstad flats Easter weekend Fun fair, which the Reinhardt / Ingram family circus usually puts in an attendance. The last ( Read more... )

was called Timmy, a tiger striped tabby owned by a newlywed Mum and Dad. As  result of much petulant whinging from my Mum who freaked about at the thought of leaving him on his own, demanded that wherever Mum and Dad went Timmy would come along, in the back of the car. Timmy was evetually given  my Aunty Patt nd uncle Danny when it was deemed ( Read more... )

It's official! Toronto loves me ( Read more... )

Thank you Toronto, I would like to thank you on behalf of my poems for your attentive ears ( Read more... )

My sleep is finally back n synch ( Read more... )

I have done it again.
Every nine girls in ten.
I manage it-

Yet another 'friend'.

It's been a bit of a rollercoaster the past couple of weeks ( Read more... )