Farewell to a good human, a good friend
Strange how challenging it is when a friend and neighbour who becomes such a remarkable marker of the phases of your day suddenly vanishes from life, and as death has it, just disappears without a trace.
Justice’s private joke: Of course prison works
Argue against modernday attitudes to imprisonment and stand by for a howl of criticism, usually fired off in short cliches - 'Not long enough', 'Too easy', 'Prisons? Holiday camps!'
Naughty but nourishing, that's the uncertain fig
I've done it! I've grown the fruit with the astonishing reputation, and all on my own. After years of loving attention, a tiny tree given to me by poet friend Robert Graham is laden with fruit.
Hip, hip hooray! The sun has got his hat off
The amazing heavenly event today in the US stopped millions of Americans in their tracks and for many, as media photos show this evening, this seems to be from a beach. Then en masse tanning stopped for the short time it took the moon to pass across the face of the sun.
