Cathy Cade's Blog: Writing Wrinkles, page 13

The Perils of Dog-walking

Much as I love Smidgeon and Ruff, dogs have their downside. They expect their morning walk, rain or shine. Still, I need the exercise too and, on this particular day it wasn’t raining. Yet. We took the forest path between the lake and the river Ching – which is a trickle at best by the … Continue reading The Perils of Dog-walking

The Steady Drip of Disaster

You can’t escape a dripping tap in a small flat. Mine has been dripping for almost two weeks. It started quite suddenly and soon turned from a drip to a drizzle. I found that if I ran the hot water until the tap felt hot to touch, the dripping stopped. For a while. I then … Continue reading The Steady Drip of Disaster

Rhymers Rejoice!

I am pleased to alert fellow rhymers to a welcome opportunity. Those who follow my blog may recall that I occasionally stray into the realms of rhyme. I freely admit that I haven’t got the hang of blank verse. I am more of a puzzler than a poet, and enjoy the challenge of rhyming. But … Continue reading Rhymers Rejoice!

Quarts into Pint Pots.

(Sorry, but a metric translation just doesn’t sound right.) I am currently trying to fit belongings from two homes into one very small one. Formerly, my practice when I haven’t worn a garment for some time was to bring it to this occasional residence, and see if I wear it when there is less competition … Continue reading Quarts into Pint Pots.

Mementoes

While downsizing (again) I have come across several items I ought to be throwing away… …but here they still are, taking up space. There are the gardening shoes that were chewed by Pickle as a puppy. Staffies do love to chew. (Pickle died during lockdown at the grand old age of seventeen.) Chewed or not, … Continue reading Mementoes

Wordcounting, and other edits

Here’s one I prepared earlier. (A reblog, because I’ve been busy moving home.) I like editing. Back in the days when most of my writing output was instruction leaflets for library resources, I enjoyed re-organising paragraphs and sections to hold back information until the student needed it, rather than pre-loading with explanations they didn’t need … Continue reading Wordcounting, and other edits

Wobbly Walking – an update

Following my blog post last year about ways of walking that helped my hip pain (or not) I thought it was time for an update for those readers comparing experiences. I’ve not had another x-ray since last year’s, but as I am in the process of changing health authorities this isn’t the time to push … Continue reading Wobbly Walking – an update

Droning On

A story poem about fly-tipping, penned to a writing group prompt, and only slightly adjusted to fit with a photograph I had available. Droning On Bank holiday Monday has come and it's passed.Bin lorry workers are on overtime.The recycling centre is filling up fastand reports of fly-tipping are backed up online. Billy comes in late, … Continue reading Droning On

The Nature of Life

I wasn’t sober when I started this post. After an afternoon with my offspring when I drank too much – because I could and haven’t for a long time – and a short doze to sleep it off, I turned on the TV to a videomontage of England past with commentary by Sir John Betjeman, … Continue reading The Nature of Life

Best Friends, Part 2

Damned dog! ‘Mrs Osborne, can we have a look in that bag?’Constable Dawkins took the paper to the sergeant, pointing out what had caught his attention.Sergeant Eskin read out, ‘CafeConnect – wasn’t that a chain of internet cafés?’The constable came to take the bag from her hands. ‘There’s still one in town, back of the … Continue reading Best Friends, Part 2