Decorations gone; Cold days of January Will give way to Spring. An optimistic opener for this year’s haikus. They do tend to wish the year away, though I’ve always considered January as somewhat of an endurance event. Wrap up warm,
New Year’s Eve Haiku
Parties and fireworks – People celebrate worldwide. It’s Jenny’s birthday! Dedicated to all my friends and family who have birthdays between 15th December and 8th January and who get a raw deal, year in and year out. Jenny confessed to
Eight days to go haiku
Christmas cards posted, Meals planned, presents wrapped, tree up. Soon friends will arrive!
Seed Savers Book Haiku and Blog Tour Interview
To save the planet You must learn to grow real food. Join the Seed Savers! I’m pleased to be part of the Blog Tour for S. Smith’s Heirloom – the third book in the Seed Savers series. I was very
Stanley & Katrina’s Book Blast Haiku
Tuesday haiku #30 is dedicated to the wonderful Stanley and Katrina, whose book The Perpetual Papers of a Pack of Pets has been published in a second edition with a sparkling new cover. You can read my review of it
Tuesday haiku #27
Acts of terrorism Recalled by burning Guy Fawkes? It’s just Bonfire Night. “Remember, remember, the fifth of November – gunpowder, treason and plot…” In my youth we had a bonfire at the end of the garden, and my dad set
Tuesday haiku #26
Back to GMT: Mornings lighter, eve’nings dark. For a little while.
Tuesday Haiku #25
The time draws nearer for editing the next book – called Bravo Victor!
Tuesday Haiku #22
Hugo’s password is October First is too late From Fred Hoyle’s great book. In the Traveler in Black and White, Saku gives Hugo (Lord Mariusz) a password, in case he gets stuck on the other side of the time tunnel
Tuesday Haiku #21
Summer is over. Autumn Equinox is past; There’s more night than day.
Tuesday Haiku #20
The other day some of my friends gave up playing their golf game and turned it into a blackberrying session! I admit I’ve turned a bird-watching session into blackberrying, but it pays to take a bag or two with you.
Tuesday Haiku #19
Today, a little haiku to celebrate my Readers’ Favorite reviews. Not that everyone else’s reviews aren’t just as welcome and important! Five nice shiny stars Adorn Princelings one and three. Hope Pirates shines too!
Tuesday Haiku #18
Someone I visited on the Best of Summer Giveaway Hop mentioned all those essays being written about “what I did in the summer holidays”… Here’s mine. This was my summer: Tear a hip muscle; In bed with flu in July,
Tuesday Haiku #17
August’s nearly done Holidays are memories. Back to work and school.
Tuesday Haiku #16
I’m a little late with this one, since the Perseid meteor shower was a weekend ago, not the one just gone. I stepped out of my back door to watch them on three nights, just before I went to bed.