I'm bound back for Newcastle it's been quite a while since here I have travelled but now with a smile I'm back to the city through which flows the Tyne for work, yes but seeing some good friends of mine so I know we will share some pints at a Tap before in a couple of days I head back
July 4, 2022
Newcastle II
July 3, 2022
The Old Crab House
July 2, 2022
Old Buckingham walls
Part of the ‘past to present’ series from Jemverse

As a boy I used to play there inside the burnt out walls for hide n seek and other games within its hallowed halls once we ventured to the basement down dark and dusty stair oblivious to danger with innocence to dare But now all these years later it is a block of flats though with outer walls remaining preserved and still intact
July 1, 2022
One XI
11 of 12 in the ’12 months V’ series from Jemverse
With 'Dog Days' just beginning July the first is here for long hot days of summer the ones I most revere A child of summer born and bred these are the days for me getting browner in the sunshine on the beach beside the sea
June 30, 2022
The last West Pier II
Part of the ‘Past to Present’ series from Jemverse

I found it on the high tide line after a night of fire the Grand Old Lady of the sea destroyed by spite and ire Yet carried on an ebbing tide along the coast to me a memory of those boards I trod now rescued from the sea So though her grandeur is no more complete her fall from grace Brighton's West Pier always will in history have her place
June 29, 2022
The Gut
June 28, 2022
Bungalow Town
Part of the ‘Past to Present’ series from Jemverse

Just east of the church on the foreshore bungalows once on the beach presented a vista of Shoreham history has put out of reach Popularised by early movies actors built many homes there salvaging old railway carriages the carriage works then had to spare Mary Loftus, a music hall favourite Florrie Ford, Ernie Mayne, Marie Lloyd all of the lovelies who flocked to the beach making it hard to avoid
June 27, 2022
Pearl
June 26, 2022
Lavender by the wall II
Yes, I treasure this small lavender that's growing by the wall as unlike all my others I'm surprised it's here at all And yet it keeps on growing and flowering each year to bring to me the pleasure that I get because it's here and diminutive it may be but that holds no sway with me for a lavender is a lavender so I will let it be
June 25, 2022
Malduppinne
Part of the ‘Past to Present’ series from Jemverse

'Malduppinne' as it was first called in thirteen forty-seven by grant from John le Pottere to his wife in his succession Its purpose now long lost to time a museum now it hosts in the oldest secular building that the town of Shoreham boasts From 'Malduppinne' to 'Marlipins' this build of Caen stone with flint-knapped chequered walls remains the oldest one still known
June 24, 2022
There was lightning
Out to sea off Brighton a flash lit up the night there, just outside the Shelter Hall fleetingly in sight But pausing for a moment there and waiting patiently whilst rain fell there in splatters I got a shot for me We never heard the thunder but there was lightning there for sure coupled with the heavy rain which fell as down it poured
June 23, 2022
The Lanes
June 22, 2022
And the sun shone
And for a while the heat was quite intense as the sun shone down from the sky there was barely a breeze to be felt on our knees though the cloud to the east wasn't shy
June 21, 2022
Longest Day
The twenty-first, the longest day and this 'Spanish Plume' remains bringing heat for Solstice for heady dancing gains and I with best foot forward claim the day all for my own this solstice here in summer in the June I've loved and known
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June 20, 2022
Two bridges
June 19, 2022
One for Pops
On Father's Day in twenty-two my glass I raise remembering you as though it's now 'most fifty years there's still a smile and still some tears so here's to you on Father's Day you're still my Pops in every day
June 18, 2022
Born to the sun VI
Born to the sun and born to a beach which I'm going to now 'cos it's in easy reach and today is my birthday and I'm sixty-three so a day in the sun makes good sense to me I'll be there with the Beans so it will be the best for good conversation, some laughs and the rest and this evening much later to Brighton we'll go for a meal and some beers to conclude the show
June 17, 2022
The Buck
June 16, 2022
Tarmount Shepherds

Now where people park their cars on tarmac for some shopping once stood an open field where you'd oft see sheep a-hopping A shepherd's hut stood to the south close to its southern border fenced in with wooden latticework to keep the sheep in order On Tarmount Lane in Shoreham town the shepherd's field you'd see for many years with grazing for the sheep that wandered free
June 15, 2022
Ferry cross the Adur

On the corner of East Street the Ferry Rigg keeps history alive with its name though the vista to South with a century past will never now quite be the same For once cross the Adur the ferryman pulled his oars for the people to cross from the beach to the town for business and such with a gain to the past and our loss
June 14, 2022
Small chap waddling
A little chap waddled by the lakeside today whilst I was eating my lunch his gait had a purpose as he tucked his head down which was evident there with a hunch For just out of shot in the shade of the trees a mother goose watched with an eye as her offspring fought bravely to catch her back up whilst the world there at large wandered by
June 13, 2022
By the Thames of an evening
June 12, 2022
Sussex Trails
These hills, these ways, these wildflower trails so many times traversed and yet in absence, no regret as evidenced by verse For here I'm in my element my heartstrings pulled to smile whenever I'm on Sussex trails for mile on wondrous mile
June 11, 2022
Dodoitsu for Saturday rain
June 10, 2022
Sedoka for Friday rain
June 9, 2022
Tanka for Thursday rain
June 8, 2022
Bussokuseki for Wednesday rain
June 7, 2022