Here's one of my children's poems that's just gone up on @TheDirigible website. A good one for waking up and starting your day, whoever you are, wherever you are? Maybe for sharing with your classes? https://t.co/SCsWuDYsQH
They’re back. Sand Martins and Swallows.
They have landed in Britain from Africa.
I can vouch for it, I’ve seen em.
Excellent.
Now look out for the housemartins and eventually the tremendous swifts.
"We are all émigrés, crossing borders, suspended between two worlds, at home in neither—the world of our life and the world of the dead."
—Hugo Vernier
I once met Ronnie Corbett and couldn't get over how small he was in real life. When I told him this, he told me to fuck off. I was gutted at the time but with hindsight it was a reasonable response from the little fella.