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Episode 4 - The Rings of Power' So what can we say that’s good about this episode?

Sep 16, 2022

Sep 16, 2022

Rings of Power episode 3 - Some brief thoughts...

Sep 11, 2022

Rings of Power episode 3 - Some brief thoughts...

Sep 11, 2022

For what it's worth I thought I'd post some thoughts on Amazon's Rings of Power series, the LOTR…

The Rings of Power begins with a nonsensical scene around a floating paper boat which conveys some comically profound message about looking…

Sep 4, 2022

Sep 4, 2022

Rent-a-Dread

The glass-bottomed boat

Feb 9, 2022

Feb 9, 2022

The Mountaineer

His broken heart; resolve had sought

Feb 2, 2022

The Mountaineer

Feb 2, 2022

First Date

We sheltered under a chestnut tree As the rain came down And I talked of favourite words The scent of fresh rain on soil – petrichor…

Sep 20, 2021

Sep 20, 2021

Afghanistan 2

My love, I’m so sorry. I couldn’t wait any longer As I stood by Masoud’s tomb and watched While the roes of our rangale traipsed in None…

Sep 13, 2021

Sep 13, 2021

Afghanistan

My love, I gathered our children and ran When the jackals came I left my scent on the trees of the forest So you could follow

Aug 21, 2021

Aug 21, 2021

An Olympics Round-Up From a British Perspective

Despite the lack of fans, the media generated gloom and doom and the ravages of the Covid restrictions I thought that was a wonderful…

Aug 9, 2021

Aug 9, 2021

Ode To A Corned Beef Sandwich

They say that in this time of Covid lockdown there’s been an increase in the purchase of childhood comfort foods. Bisto gravy and Birds…

Feb 4, 2021

Feb 4, 2021

World Cup 2020 — The Comedy in Qatar

Night after night packed stadiums cheered on the world’s greatest athletes in a crescendo of acclaim for their sterling achievements…

Oct 6, 2020

World Cup 2020 — The Comedy in Qatar

Oct 6, 2020

Ode to Paddington Old Cemetery

Caged by the Covid virus, we use you as a park Though most are six feet under — — — we keep six feet apart We wander round your hallowed…

May 11, 2020

May 11, 2020

Ode to a Bowl of Porridge

‘Fit for horses not for humans’, once said an ancient wit Yet here I stand to challenge this, to prove the wit a tit For they’ve mocked…

May 10, 2020

May 10, 2020

Ode to a Watermelon

Oh watermelon, you large berry, you queen of swollen roundness I dream of you sometimes, From seed: tendrils spreading, coiled lover’s…

Apr 26, 2020

Ode to a Watermelon

Apr 26, 2020

The Old Lion

The old lion had been cast out of the pride where once he had been king. It took a few weeks for the shock of it to wear off, but…

Feb 11, 2020

Feb 11, 2020

The Snake and the Scorpion

‘Why’s that?’ asked the snake

Feb 10, 2020

The Snake and the Scorpion

Feb 10, 2020

Dickensian London

In the aftermath of the UK 2019 Election result where the Labour vote was decimated, mainly, because Jeremy Corbyn and his leadership team…

Feb 6, 2020

Dickensian London

Feb 6, 2020

Three Spiritual Books for the Bedside table

It’s apparent that religious affiliation is more than anything an accident of birth. You’re born into a family, time or place that…

Jan 31, 2020

Jan 31, 2020

Chicken Jihad

A poem about Ahmad Khan Rahami — the New Jersey Bomber (who had a sideline as a takeaway Chicken Shop owner)

Jan 28, 2020

Jan 28, 2020

The Death Song of the Celts

In 2015 in the British County of Cornwall archaeologists found a large quantity of bones beneath a high cliff. Due to the age of the bones…

Jan 28, 2020

The Death Song of the Celts

Jan 28, 2020

Duncan MacDowall

Duncan MacDowall

Sometime writer and satirist with an interest in current affairs, religion, sport, literature and a propensity towards penning political poems. London based.

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