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Tag: BBC Local Radio Writing Club

  • Poem: Getting In

    He tried password – it didn’t work; He tried 1234. He tried his place of birth but got No further than before. He tried his mother’s maiden name, His father’s mother’s too; He tried his first pet – and his last – But still it wouldn’t do.

  • Memoir: My First One in Real Life

    I was twenty-two years old, and about eight stone wet through. I was wearing a home-sewn wrap-over skirt – small brown and white flowers and green leaves on a black background, the hem finished off with cream broderie anglaise. The top half of my skinny frame was covered by a sleeveless v-necked t-shirt, over which…

  • Song: You Can’t Call It Music

    It’s something special, I know, and I don’t want to bore, But I guarantee that you’ve heard nothing like me before. But I have a talent – unusual thing – ‘Cause everyone shudders when I start to sing… I can scatter a crowd; People pray that I don’t sing out loud.

  • Short Fiction: The Washerwoman

    The men do not take the trouble to get to know me, but they are fascinated by me. They bring their easels and brushes and colours and stare at me as I work. If they want me to stop so they can catch the light from the water as I heave a sodden sheet from…

  • Poem: Eat Your Heart Out

    When we planned our kitchen, my husband said to me: ‘Get it how you want it – it’s the only chance there’ll be…’ I took him at his word and let my credit card run free And now I have a kitchen which teems with gadgetry… My kitchen’s the equivalent of my old man’s garden…

  • Poem: This Is The Jewel

    This is the jewel you held to the light To waken its soul for a wide-eyed young child; You kept me enthralled with your tales of its travels Through kingdoms fought over by warriors wild. This gem had been kept in a cave by a wise witch And countless the times it was borrowed and…

  • Poem: Who Did You Say You Were?

    When we met you’d do the odd impression, Which made me laugh, I will say that, it’s true; All our friends said it was super When you did your Tommy Cooper And then, your repertoire just grew and grew. You did Sir Terry Wogan and Pierce Brosnan, Antonio Banderas, Meryl Streep; In an effort to…

  • Song: Hotel Can’taffordmore

    On a dark dual carriageway, cool wind in my hair, Warm smell – sugar beet dust – rising up through the air. Up ahead in the distance, I saw a flickering light; I’d worked my hours to the max that day, I had to stop for the night. There she stood in reception, like she’d…

  • Poem: Rosie’s Garden

    Oh tell me, Rosie; Rosie, tell: What makes your garden grow so well? Each plant in its rightful place Grows and blossoms, given space. If the plants are to succeed Food and water’s all they need. Water? In the morning’s best; Watch out for disease and pest;

  • Poem: Freeing My Mind

    I tried to free my mind from all the things I had to do: Cook the dinner, do the washing, walk the dog and clean the loo. My list grew ever longer and I so wanted to bin it But the more I tried to free my mind, the more things came back in it.…

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