Inspired by a visit to West Stow Anglo-Saxon Village. Dry-grey thatch. Gapped. And drafty. An ageing roof in need of repair. Dry-grey fringe. Frizzed. And stringy. An ageing thatch in need of repair. Restoration? Expensive. Copyright of text, and photograph, owned by Jay Cool, September 2018
Tag Archives: mid-life crisis
Facebook Reunion
Re-emergence of old friends. Ancient connections. Whispered notes in tutorials. Student cars. Minis, 2CVs and Morris Minors. Starving, suicidal acquaintances raced into surgeries, collapsing into the future. In journeys long gone. And misremembered. False recollections. Old cells died and replaced. Recharged. Copyright owned by Jay Cool Image: Photo of 2CV from PXhere, aContinue reading “Facebook Reunion”
Exhumed
Knackered, exhumed, drawn-out, mesmerised … H & M tempts, siphoning up the remnants of me through a straw hat, bidding me with flesh-striped leggings, to sport my way over, fly over the stationary traffic, to zone out the time-wasters, to make mockery of the drivers queuing for home. I take off … upContinue reading “Exhumed”
The Silly-Savvy Salopian in Suffolk: read, believe and write ... 