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Barking Mad in Amble by the Sea: November 2010

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Saturday, 20 November 2010. It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards. A FEW YEARS AFTER MY FATHER VANISHED. I dragged one of our dining room chairs into my mother’s bedroom, placed it in the doorway of her cupboard, climbed onto it, stretched out my arms, and pulled several items down from a shelf that had been well out of reach until that moment. I’d have been, perhaps, seven or eight. I was interested in painting. However, I was not permitted to use my father’s many tubes of water...Dad too...

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Barking Mad in Amble by the Sea: Dreamland Pilgrim

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Tuesday, 25 October 2011. 8220;The colour of truth is gray.”. 1869 – 1951). I stepped into my shower a. The Heathen, which is to say the. Had dabbed at his wet body while flinging towels about, and was able to get dressed. On with the central heating to get the floor quite dry. An experiment: A jug of water poured into the bathtub bubbled up through the space between the bathtub’s housing and the floor. Here was trouble. When I was a boy, at my. 8217;s home in. 8217;s family home in. I shall tell the rea...

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Barking Mad in Amble by the Sea: January 2011

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Sunday, 16 January 2011. And on the Eighth Day . They Wrote it Down. A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation. 1844 – 1900). Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror. 1885 – 1930). Are those that we reject first of all. It is the. Elementa...

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Barking Mad in Amble by the Sea: April 2011

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Saturday, 30 April 2011. There live not three good men unhanged in England;. And one of them is fat and grows old:. God help the while! A bad world, I say. Henry IV Part 1. I have never liked this part of Northamptonshire," broadcast—loudly—the unattractive woman in clothes that one might wear to muck out a stable. Ice and snow were not on the mind of the stranger from Lancashire, lost forty or so miles north of Newcastle. She wanted to give a running tour of what she did not like as she looked out o...

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Barking Mad in Amble by the Sea: July 2011

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Friday, 15 July 2011. And while he lingered, the men laid hold upon his hand, and upon the hand of his wife, and upon the hand of his two daughters; the LORD being merciful unto him: and they brought him forth, and set him without the city. And it came to pass, when they had brought them forth abroad, that he said, Escape for thy life; look not behind thee, neither stay thou in all the plain; escape to the mountain, lest thou be consumed. And Lot said unto them, Oh, not so, my LORD. I WAS NOT AWARE.

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Barking Mad in Amble by the Sea: Mentholated Dreams

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Friday, 15 July 2011. And while he lingered, the men laid hold upon his hand, and upon the hand of his wife, and upon the hand of his two daughters; the LORD being merciful unto him: and they brought him forth, and set him without the city. And it came to pass, when they had brought them forth abroad, that he said, Escape for thy life; look not behind thee, neither stay thou in all the plain; escape to the mountain, lest thou be consumed. And Lot said unto them, Oh, not so, my LORD. I WAS NOT AWARE.

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Barking Mad in Amble by the Sea: A Tumble in the Hay with Lord Krishna

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Sunday, 21 August 2011. A Tumble in the Hay with Lord Krishna. AS YOU CAN SEE. This is a picture of. A most exotic couple. In 2006, I bought some colourful postcards in a gift shop at the. These certainly are extravagantly dressed gods. I have not only been in this temple of Lord Krishna, but in a. Temple. I can tell you truthfully that the Mormons’ attire is a damn sight more peculiar, and not nearly so attractive. 8220;Summer of Love”,. For a week in 2006, in the hottest weather on the books, was perfe...

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Barking Mad in Amble by the Sea: RUSH

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Wednesday, 28 December 2011. 8220;But one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side, and forthwith came there out blood and water.”. THE WIND IS BOOMING TODAY. Here in my kitchen, the sounds made by the changes in pressure on the chimneys on top of the building are no less than those of a relentless hurricane passing over the Bermuda Islands at the end of summer. In my life, I have experienced a number of those. I have always enjoyed writing. It has been almost a compulsion at times, making thing...

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Barking Mad in Amble by the Sea: February 2011

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Saturday, 19 February 2011. The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water. I MUST HAVE BEEN NO OLDER. Than five when I noticed the rain rushing down the driveway in my mother’s garden at such a volume that it could not be absorbed or carried away quickly enough to keep it from flowing into our garage. In. Relatives have served in the. A cousin is an officer in what remains of Britain’s navy at this moment. It is worth noting he was on. In about 1994. That is a desert...