Chapter Nine After Gentile Jesus entered 13A Bohemia Way he never came out. Mother Eartha re-baptised him and he became a new woman. His father was well displeased, his mother confused, his sister unconvinced. Gentile Jesus, aka Christopher Proctor, had been a promising potential civil engineer, but the diversions of 13A become the only way. … Continue reading Bearded Iris
The Freckleton Air Disaster
The tragic deaths of thirty-eight children, two teachers, seven other British civilians, four RAF sergeants and ten USAAF personnel in August 1944.
Gentile Jesus
Chapter Eight. Mostly fictional.
The Singer and His Likeness
Reflections on ‘The Magic of It All’, the latest album by Strawbs
The scribbler and the ceramicist
The remaking of patterns The familiar question came again. “Where do you get all your ideas?” The answer is unchanged. “From the same place as you.” Yet she was a ceramicist and I a scribbler. Judging by the display on her stall she is every bit as creative and productive as I, if not more … Continue reading The scribbler and the ceramicist
The Shredder-scope
Chapter Seven
The roof rack, the bench, the ironing board, the hedgehog and the fox
Recycling to recycle.
Cosmetic consultation
Chapter Six "There’s no such thing as good,” she said. “Just people who get lucky.”
Early daze
Chapter Five
Hoe-digger’s Hog
Releasing a rescue hedgehog.




