Author Archives: backgardenman

16th  October Will Truss last 100 days? Is she in power now? Hunt said she was, ‘yes, she is still in charge’. That being the case, where is she other than lying low at Chequers? Papa Joe has waded in and said, whilst buying an ice cream cone, that he didn’t think Britains economic policyContinue reading “Day 41”

You can hear the lions roar at night. In the morning the gibbons ‘hoo, hoo’ loudly. There’s a small zoo, a charity, populated by rescue animals, at the end of the road. February. The bear enclosure. One brown bear is hibernating, with another one, rescued from a cellar in an Eastern European country, due soon.Continue reading “Zoo Talk”

The idea for the Lashkar Gah story came from an overheard conversation in Asda’s. I’ll leave it up to you to decide whether the speakers are men or women (does it matter). I used a Scot’s language dictionary to check on spelling. During that week there had been a number of news stories that areContinue reading “Lashkar Gah”

I have been working from home during lockdown. Currently looking at a return to the office sometime in August 2021. I have always had an interest in writing fiction. I have a particular liking for short stories. I have set myself a ‘target’ – that does not sound much like fun – of writing tenContinue reading “Lockdown Writing”