Jim Webster's Blog, page 36

Which side is your bread buttered

  It’s amazing how rapidly moral principle can be overcome with simple greed. In a morning I go to feed sheep. I drive into the field on a quad bike towing a trailer and accompanied by Sal. Sal, as a border collie, has the silhouette of a small wolf and dentition any of the Canidae …

The fast that I have chosen:

I’ve spent the last forty-eight hours pondering social media. To be honest all I’d achieved is a growing level of despair, until I had a moment of revelation. Instead of giving up stuff and fasting for Lent, I’d say the way forward is to give up stuff and fast for the election campaign! So it …

Ride a white swan

The maiden wasn’t in distress as such, and she was probably a fair bit older than the girl in the picture. (But perhaps not old enough to remember Marc Bolan and T Rex?) But she obviously cared, which means a lot. Not only that, she didn’t just care in the “click ‘like’ on facebook with …

Oh Lord, not again

  Another election. Whoopee, be still my beating heart! Bring it on, let’s be having it. Six more weeks of endless social media bickering as people who hardly know each other slag each off because they believe in the wrong shade of pink. A bit back somebody posted quite proudly that he’d been to the …

Retail therapy

  One question I’ve been asked from time to time is sensible enough, “How on earth can anybody make a living from food production?” I suppose the answer is simple, “Send the wife out to work.” But looking ahead, the world is changing. Whatever you think of Brexit and the EU, we’re leaving. Nobody has …

The right tool for the job

I know a lot of people sigh about ‘boys and their toys’ but frankly jobs are so much easier with the right equipment. This was driven home to me today. We had a lamb that was walking stiffly, didn’t look ‘right.’ I noticed this when I was feeding the batch of relatively newly lambed ewes …

Jim Webster and Tallis Steelyard out on tour!

Originally posted on Annette Rochelle Aben:
Well, I must say, this is quite the honor to have two, count ‘em, TWO remarkable men guesting here on my blog today.  Fellow blogger, author and all around cool dude, who raises the bar of conscious thought every chance he gets, Jim Webster AND the ever poetic, always…

Blog Tour: Jim Webster’s ‘Keeping body and soul together’ (‘Port Naain Intelligencer’ collection).

Originally posted on writerchristophfischer:
Rescuing random strangers on a whim may be the good deed for the day, but will Benor survive the blood feud he has unwittingly become part of. More importantly can he buy back the victim’s soul? Today I’m giving my blog over to Tallis Steelyard (The jumbled musings of Tallis Steelyard) talking about…

Guest author- Tallis Steelyard aka Jim Webster… The value of money

Originally posted on Sue Vincent's Daily Echo:
It is perhaps salutary to look back and contemplate the changes one has seen in one’s life. Indeed it can be interesting to look at the changes one has, by one’s efforts, helped to initiate. Some ideas have faded, others flourished. So my attempt to encourage poets…

The Admirable Jim Webster Presents…

Originally posted on Mick Canning:
I am delighted to host a guest post from Jim Webster today, since he…well, perhaps I’ll let him explain. Hi everybody, Mick kindly allowed me to drop in as part of a ‘blog tour.’ Given that Mick discovered my writing at Tallis Steelyard’s blog, I thought I’d let Tallis, poet…