‘No Straight Lines in Nature’ My poem ‘No Straight Lines in Nature‘ was sucked into the space time vortex and re-emerged twice for breath. Well it took nearly three years but the poem was accepted for publication in the Divan Poetry Journal in 2010 (sent in November 2009), has finally seen the light of day […]
Fellow blogger Martin (Square Sunshine) celebrated three years in the blogosphere yesterday; which got me wondering how old was my blog? Well I checked and would you believe we both started in the same month (though I didn’t start reading his blog until a year or so later). I put up my first blog post […]
Alas poor Pompadour the wondrous Chinese Silkie chicken has passed to chook heaven. In memoriam I will share a few highlights of her career in showbiz. RIP Pompadour – You Rock! Ten Chinese Silkie chickens took up residence in the Bryden household (Frog Lodge, Australia) on the 8th December 2008. Five hens and five roosters. […]
The Artist (a poem with fishy fish) What marvellous fishy fish you capture, he said to the artist, quick tip of the hat and nod to her grasp of the slippery power held within the Koi, of paint and pond. If I could divine the secret of supple shape and muscle, colour and […]
Ha! Just found out that I’m 51 in Jonathon Crossfield’s ranked list of Top Australian Writing Blogs – so just missed out on the top 50. Don’t know whether this is a good or a bad thing. The formula for ranking these blogs comes from the three most commmonly used methods of blog tracking; Technorati, […]
