Loved the Schiaparelli exhibition at the V&A - her brazen fashion designs were an antidote to WWII misery ❤️

I bought “Lumen”after hearing Tiffany Anderson’s dumbfounding poem Dog Speaks, the rest of the book is dynamite too ❤️ #poetry #dogs @tiffanya.bsky.social

My recommendation this winter for a delightfully pleasing and enjoyable read - now buying all her other books, thanks @lissakevans.bsky.social

So heartwarming to play the organ for my home village church on Christmas Day - I’d like to say I pulled all the stops out but I’m not sure what they do… Merry Christmas everyone! ❄️🪾❤️

Foggy morning on the way to the hospital #nursing #shiftwork

Powerful exhibition of work by Ishiuchi Miyako on the 80th anniversary of the Hiroshima bombings. There is so much life in these preserved textiles ❤️

Winter lunch - udon, miso, beetroot. A day for rest and poetry ❤️

Delighted to have a poem in the Fig Tree about a day at the Crazy Golf in the off season…⛳️

At the Musical Instrument Museum in Brussels you can see (and hear) what trumpets might have turned out like ❤️

Hanging out with the Choking Charlies at First Aid Training ❤️

Summer might be over but the heated laundry rack is on ❤️

This week I started studying to be a nurse. This antique silver ‘nursing belt’ belonged to my Granny. The designs were specific to the hospitals the nurses trained at ❤️

Good medicine at the Poetry Pharmacy on Oxford Street ❤️💊

I’m in great company in this excellent journal Dream Catcher, and delighted to have a number of poems in it including this duplex with probably the strangest title I’ve ever used, thank you James Joyce! ❤️

Lady Jane Grey joins me for lunch, rudely facing the other way

Delighted to be included in issue #10 of the Fig Tree with my football (and life) related poem Extra Time ⚽️

First time in Cornwall, at the beautiful Trevaunance Cove ❤️

Beautiful southern Norway ❤️

London Hydraulic Power Company 1882
Some interesting history on the penultimate leg of my 5 year long Thames walk from Oxford to the Barrier ❤️

Made a new friend on my rest day ❤️

The view from St Mary’s Hospital today - dragon boat races on Paddington Basin

Thanks to N2 magazine for publishing my nature poem ‘wild’ 🪶

Enjoying the Do Ho Suh memory houses at the Tate Modern ❤️

Plum time

Perfect day on the Heath ❤️

A highlight of my week was the launch of Matthew Paul’s new book - exceptional poems that tell stories of times and people I feel I know ❤️

The cat brought in a slow worm today!
This friendly chap was put safely in the undergrowth at the back of the garden ❤️

Delighted to receive this gift of poetry in the post from my good friend Steve Moran, who I would describe as the Walt Whitman of Willesden ☺️
@stephen-moran.bsky.social

This mural cheered me up on a fruitless mission this morning - it’s June Rose Barber, the longest remaining tenant in her block near Kilburn, done by Global Art Collective in 2020

Enjoyed this Thames timeline mosaic as we passed St Paul’s on our epic walk of the Thames from Oxford to the Barrier - I’m writing time travel, currently lost in 1995 ❤️