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The last bedroom on the right

Exterior view of Ridgeway Lodge care home in Dunstable

There is no pastRememberedOr futureImagined.Just the present.Tense.A singularity.You live in the moment. Very on point as they say.Content (or so I hope) sucking tea from a sippy cupOr shredding tissues in your lapWhile I am walking an imaginary dog (the…

Death is only the beginning

A photo of mum at the helm on a family boating holiday

I’m not a big fan of anniversaries. The ones you want to forget, you remember. The ones you want to remember, you forget.  And so it was I found myself wide awake early this morning exactly a year to the…

Still Life

Shackled by time slippers shuffledStooped to the high-backed seatQueen throned, grey crown ruffledPrince and Princess at her feet  The Prince takes a marbled handBut a child’s touch cannot reach beyondTheir birth to a foreign land To retrieve lost memories fond In…