• “Bloomin’ Football: A Football Pilgrim’s Progress
    “Bloomin’ Football”, a World Cup floral festival, Early June, at St. Mary Magdalene’s: World Cup flags draped from yew tree to porch, Countries portrayed in displays of flowers, Firstly, Brazil, created by Sarah from the Glebe allotments, A deep ivy green evocation of the lustrous rain forest, Clematis, Hosta, and a profusion of wild flowers. […]
  • World Cup Haikus 1- 6
    WORLD CUP HAIKU1 A Rainbow Nation Arcs across the shanty towns Bulldozed for football. WORLD CUP HAIKU2 Green Point Stadium, Stares out at Robben Island: Ghosts stare from cells. (Nelson Mandela’s prison: the old and the new) WORLD CUP HAIKU3 A Rainbow Nation, Trapped in its mythologies: The Beautiful Name. The Cape of Good Hope […]
  • One World 2010
    Over a hundred years ago, or so, When Britannia ruled the waves, And the sun never set on former slaves, We went to war in South Africa Not the one with Michael Caine, But the one that led to fighting in the Kop: The Jameson Raid, Mafeking, Baden-Powell and “Bobs”, That music hall world of […]
  • The Usual
    So it was modern life is rubbish again: My brother booked our train tickets over the internet, The server went down half way through, He had to ‘phone up and do it all over again, The server went down again, but Robert the Bruce, Well done, bingo, confirmation of booking. The next day, Millwall versus […]
  • Fulham versus Swindon Town
    So off we go to the capital city, Sons and daughters of steam, Sons and daughters of the plough, Along the permanent way; First, a pilgrimage to St. Mary’s, Putney, Scene of the 1647 Putney Debates, “I think that the poorest he that is in England hath a life to live, as the greatest he”, […]