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Thursday, 26 June 2025

Bank

The Sheveling Wine Estate

Black Americano and Creme Brûlée

Yes, here at the top of the Holme Valley

Overlooking the vineyard on the hillside


There appears to be a problem allocating tables

Although I am sat by a window

It seems that the computer is at fault

Its algorithm’s being somewhat inflexible


I never knew quite so many romantics

Frequented the Holmfirth region

Not at least since Last of the Summer Wine

Brought tears to our visitor’s eyes


I myself, once the mid-life crisis lover

Wrote a levelling up letter, on the moor

Sat by a dry-stone summer’s wall

Where a butterfly kept me company



Wednesday, 25 June 2025

What’s in a name

Law Common Road

On the way

To Cartworth Moor

Past the heather clad

Lands of the reservoir

Past the heathen led

Shooting grounds


Law Common Road

What does it mean

Is it a law

Which marks this as the way

To common ground

Not a place

To be shot at



Tuesday, 24 June 2025

Infused With Love

Into the imaginary

As if the elbow on the knee

Would help the thoughts

To first bring the smile

Followed by a beautiful stirring

Of the heart

The spirit and the soul


How many have fallen away

How many have stayed the course

Yet this one room; home

As it will have been called before


Away from the imagination

As if the balls of the feet

Would follow the pathway

To first say thanks for the smile

Followed by beauty recurring

In the soul

The spirit and the heart



Monday, 23 June 2025

Sunday, 22 June 2025

Getting Going

Shrouded by the mist of the green

The curious case

Of parcels arriving

Such are the wonders of rising early


In the light of the soft glow

Overheard communications

Each and every which way

Acknowledge the beauty of keeping in touch


There is a box in the shed

With a name I ought to know

I will go investigate shortly

But for now I aim to simply sit


Sit in that new found freedom

Not known for quite a long while

Such is this love of the time

To appreciate the arrival of morning