Scarred by keys failing forced entry. It still stands the sentinel. Guarding my heart. Prompted by Magpie tales .

This post was prompted by Rel's Magpie 24 and the poem written while nursing my mum who just wanted it all to end but was afraid of th...

Sure I learned French for three years and actually passed my junior high exams. In those days there was no oral test, so my accent must hav...

These two excerpts are from my (unpublished) first novel "Cull" written in 2006. The first is reproduced here mainly for my Austra...

I hope this heart felt poem about a real event is worth a second outing as a Magpie Magic. That tour with the Japanese cabaret show 'To...

Peter Young is an exceptionally personable young man who sold advertising for Channel 3 Newcastle but also played drums. It was in his drumm...

A bad time to sell was the advice, but IXL decided to auction anyway. Her feeling is that time is running out, with her health impacted by ...

Helen (bless you) went right back to my first blog (Carer Blues One). She commented that she, like me, wrote to stay sane while caring for ...

Growing new, erupting gums, Invention, mass production comes. Baby teeth, come loose then fall, Oil and coal, great fortunes call. Playing c...

Air, fire, wa-ter, Earth, my daughter Grounded, loving, cool. El-e-ment-'ry Female wisdom- Her genetic pool. Prompted by Magpie Tales