Still going strong after all these years… A new job! But the same coat…!! The grand opening & the Armed Forces Covenant… HRH Prince of Wales
The Sustainable Development Global Goals
The UN Goals for Sustainable Development, or Global Goals, were launched at the beginning of 2016. They have been much publicised recently through Project Everyone, devised by the filmmaker Richard Curtis (founder of Comic Relief). To find out more about the
Gaia 2020 – The Pamphlet – For your copy, donate & buy here
You are invited to contribute a donation towards your copy (at Just Giving Gaia2020), (£5 recommended) your donation will go to Friends of the Earth… or, if you prefer, please donate to Tunbridge Wells Mental Health Resource If you would like
National Stress Awareness Day & Thriving at Work
Today, 1st November, amid echoes of Samhain, is National Stress Awareness Day hot on the heels of the excellent report on mental health last week, Thriving at Work a review of mental health and employers! The review sets out six clear standards for
World Mental Health Day – 10th October 2017
Last night I was privileged, as a Business Disability Forum Associate, to share an evening, one of a series, of ‘Courageous Conversations’ at an American bank in London, as part of their Disability Advocacy (& LGBT) Networks. The conversation was
The London Launch of When the Change Came & Gaia 2020
Join us for the launch of When the Change Came & Gaia 2020 on Thursday 16th November, for an 8pm start, at the Poetry Cafe, 22 Betterton Street, Covent Garden, London. WC2H 9BX Remember this iconic photo of the Earth rising
Speaking Out on Mental Health – 14th September, Nottingham
On Thursday 14th September, I spoke at the IOSH National Safety and Health Conference in Nottingham. The title of the presentation was: Fast Train Approaching…! A personal story of breakdown and recovery Delighted to be in DH Lawrence country, I
Hazel
Delighted to say that Patricia Oxley at Acumen has accepted my poem ‘Hazel’ for publication in Issue 89 in September. Even now, of course, the memory still very moving – see poem below… Hazel (I) Blue Jacket She
Green
Is… Green is listening Green becomes Green is red Green beckons Green submerges Green wishes Green is born Green breathes…
Puppet on a String
This isn’t me, or is it…? I am waving, yet I do not wave. I am pulled in every direction your fingers in my dreams only a body to offer – the answer between my legs. +++ It began in
To Eynsford with Granpop
He drove a pale blue Ford Anglia, sometimes you would ride on the rear wings travelling through the lanes at twenty-miles an hour. There was a hollowed oak tree that he called the witches house and you would scream as
I feel
I feel like an advocado being cut open to remove the stone I don’t feel the knife… I feel the sudden, smooth, slick emptiness I feel as if I have neglected my dreams I feel the opposite of an oyster treasuring