Merchant ship cranes unloading their grain Confederate ships built at Cammell Lairds opposite sits the Liver Birds Ferries glide across the Mersey supporters wear their red or blue jerseys high above the Albert dock cathedral bells peal over their flocks The world’s greatest seafaring city land of the Beatles and birth of the sixties today’s […]

How many people can claim that breaking their leg saved their life twice Seconds from signing for those Red Devils shattered bones stunned the cheering crowds on that Saturday afternoon put paid to those Korean battlefields Well convalesced and working for the GPO manning the top floor midnight Dial Tower shift he took the call […]

In kits and jeans we’d pick two teams by dip dip dip and my blue ship Although quite small I’d play in goal hoping that we wouldn’t foul then a trip inside the box and big Pete rolled down his socks Whack! a Casey fast and low I flew and saved this great penno

Not far from Grange road there is a park and a field where they play Sunday league all proper and skilled We went for a stroll me and my Gran just around the corner with mothers and prams Whilst watching the teams I blew my tin whistle the players stopped dead annoyed and puzzled The […]

I happened upon a stretch of quiet beach. The mantis green palms flayed lightly in an uncertain breeze. The course abrasive sand now cooling in the early evening under a purple sky broodingly framing a round tangelo sun, slowly setting over the striated etched horizon and the South China Sea. I sat upon a clutch […]