23rd April — Today is Shakespeare’s birthday The greatest playwright ever, To write those stories all in verse Is surely very clever. We might not understand it all, T’was writ in ancient time, Those cadences and wondrous words Will always sound sublime. Shylock — what a character; Macbeth, the witches’ whore; King Henry’s speech will…

I haven't got a clue

an unlikely couple find love — I’ll tell you a heart-warming story which starts with Sylvester McRawn, he’d done time for breaking and entering, and lived in a bedsit, alone. He picked up a habit in prison and now he smokes twenty a day. He buys them at Aliyah’s One Stop and nicks some when she looks away…

I like your quirky sense of humour. Nice to have you back.

A sonnet — And now, the dragons come, clouding the sky, Their leather wings gleam grey as molten lead, They screech and howl as overhead they fly, Swoop down, snatch-claw the bodies of the dead, And in the sea, Leviathan ploughs waves, Its mighty jaws encompass Spanish galleons, Yet now they swallow men in briny graves, Whose bones and…

(with apologies to Lewis Carroll) — He thought he saw a seagull sitting 0n a rocky crag, he looked again and saw it was a wind-blown plastic bag, then thousands more along the shore — a flock of warning flags. He thought he saw a gathering of pretty floating birds, he looked again and saw it was a mass…

and unrequited love — Darkday afternoon, when all is sleepiness, lights on at three, indoor headache. The café pours out golden light, a waft of rich blend raises the spirits. She comes here to meet him — wheat and rye hair and a scholar’s brain, but his commitment is not to her sex. Salt…

Beautiful, Mabel. Peace and happiness to you and your loved ones today and have a wonderful Christmas x

Beautiful, Mabel. Peace and love to you and your family and have a wonderful Christmas x