So good to be back

Even as I flew over

the patterned fields

the love returned.

England,

Ancestral home

Point of departure

place of places.

Green fields not paddocks,

meeting with friends.

We left Heathrow,

Mark and I,

my younger brother by hours

not days,

and dallied by the Thames

at Runymede

home of the Magna Carta

Friends are what makes

life bearable, memorable

and fun.

Thanks Mark

my friend

and fellow traveller...

Fragments of England

Snow, the Toon, Newcastle Brown Ale
Trees, parks, pristine fields.
The Underground, Metro and Railways,
Newcastle to London at 6am,
London to Newcastle at 6.05pm.
Castles, walls, history,
Literature, poetry.

Bronte, Woolf, Bloomsbury
Garsington, Sissinghurst,
Monks House, Charleston,
Leonard, Hogarth Press.
London, Birmingham, Nottingham
Hove, Shar, Hooriyah, Soleman.
Seamus, Andre and Yuliya
NUTH, Royal Berkshire.

The Black Swan, Victory
Millstone and Bacchus.












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A Colonial Reflects on Living in the Old Country

It looks the same
but is not the same
12000 miles from home
But very close to the roots
of my family tree
I settle in

I feel comfortable here
up North
Friendly Folks
with cold, wet weather
Home of the Geordie
and mince and dumplings

Business terms
and styles differ
but the human dimension
and office politics
are the same the
wide world over