• A Late Summer’s Night Dream
    Sven: “How now, Spirit? Whither wander you?” Beckham: “Over hill, over dale, Through bush, through briar, Over park, over pale, Through flood, through fire, Swifter than the moon’s sphere; And I serve you Wizard Sven, To gild the floodlights up above the glen, Bobby Robson, he, your pensioner be, In his grey hair gold spots […]
  • As Staam Likes It, Act 1v
    Staam: (soliloquising) “Oh Sir Alex Prospero, Why has’t thou banished me to Lazio? There was’t I, with the kitchen order from MFI, And scullions fetching hogs heads of Advocaat From the general victualler’s car, Looking forward to my Tudor kitchen fittings, But thou has’t dropt me, unremitting – And why? Is’t because of the unusual […]
  • Adlestrop Part 2
    Yes, I remember Adlestrop – The name, because it was 1966 when The station name board was offered Unwontedly. To Oxford, after Swindon. The dream wished. Someone cleaned the hall. The sign-board saying Adlestrop Was too big for the Art School wall. And so it was chopped up. And in the early 70’s Caretakers burned […]
  • Swapping Shirts With Shakespeare – Sonnet 666
    How like an inconstant lover thou hast been, For if I take thee in mine arms and hold thee fast, Thou dost choose to bounce into the centre forward’s path And he doth then court thee and crash thee into mine open net; Or, it tired of the custodian’s sickly spangled shirt, I venture upfield […]
  • Adlestrop Part 1
    Yes, I remember Adlestrop – The name, because in 1966 The station name board was offered Unwontedly. To Swindon, June the 6th. The dream wished. Someone cleared his throat. No-one had heard of Adlestrop In the Swindon Rail Museum. England won the World Cup. And Doctor Beeching cut his swathe Through meadowsweet, and haycocks dry, […]