by Amy Clampitt cold nights on the farm, a sock-shodstove-warmed flatiron slid underthe covers, mornings a damascene-sealed bizzarrerie of fernworkdecades ago nowwalking in northwest london, teabrought up steaming, a Peek Freanbiscuit alongside to be nibbledas blue gas leaps up singingdecades ago nowdamp sheets in Dorset, fog-hunghabitat of bronchitis, of longhot soaks in the bathtub, ofContinue reading “On The Disadvantages Of Central Heating”
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Lazy Sunday afternoon as I head off South to begin a brand new life
A Sunday drive in late summer from North Wales to Dorset, in a 1950s green Morris Minor, is one of the most relaxing journeys I can think of. Well I found it relaxing on that sunny day in 1974. It was just as well that I have always found driving myself from A to BContinue reading “Lazy Sunday afternoon as I head off South to begin a brand new life”
Farewell to a comfortable office life and it’s hey ho for the open road
Having made my decision to move on it was not just a simple case of finish work as a journalist at 5pm on a Friday and start working as a roadie for a puppet show at 9am on the following Monday morning. Giving up the flat would be a bit of wrench. It was theContinue reading “Farewell to a comfortable office life and it’s hey ho for the open road”
Robin's Nest 