Have you ever axed someone? To death or just to grievous injury. (There is no real way to axe someone lightly. It is either final …
The English Word
I am not the night, girlIt is not then when I comeA scattered spurt of silver starsThe silent sex of ship and shoreWhere rich wood …
My Grandfather’s Shirt
Recently, I have become slightly obsessed with reading about Jane Does. Did you know, there is a list, on Wikipedia, of every unidentified murder victim …
My Grandfather’s Shirt
Caitlin Whiteley describes the true depth of the loss that comes with death, and the way time influences it.
Reflections on @standrewssurvivors
‘If it takes a village to raise a child, it takes a village to abuse one’-Stanley Tucci as lawyer Mitch Garabedian in Spotlight (Tom McCarthy, …
Hungry
Come to my dinner party I will bake my ribs sweet with rosemary honey and thyme 160 degrees three hours long bring them out to …
The Magic of Food
‘Food’, my Dad begins, stretched out languorous and pleasantly full after one of my Mum’s legendary Sunday dinners, in the back garden amongst the summery …
Aelwyd Gartref (Home Hearth)
Aelwyd Gartref (home hearth)the legs of the firetheir ruby shoes and polished shinskick from the hearth mouththe coal teeth spittingsplittingdrops of murked-water leaking lullabies on the tiles in …
Barium Boron Yttrium
(BaBY) ‘Congratulations to the new parents. Can’t hardly wait to see the new arrival.’-Ernest Lawrence in a letter addressed to Enrico Fermi at Chicago University …