Yorkshire Writers' Lunch

The Top 21 Beware Friday 14 th Sail the eight seas The 1813 Overture The 1923 Committee 21:21 vision Vivaldi’s Five Seasons When I’m 65 The Magnificent Eight The Two Rangers Dial 1000 for emergencies The Holy Quartet 78 Sunset Strip Guinealand T-t-t-Twenty Sweet Seventeen 4.14159 Fellini’s 9 1/2 Always look after number two Absolute one The seven wives of Henry 1X Working 25/7

Changing flights at JFK airport in New York from London on route to Kingston Jamaica is not my favourite thing to do, but Delta and Virgin airlines have a relationship and had a super deal with Premium seats, so the inconvenience of an eight-hour layover 6 th to 7 th of June 2019, seemed worth it. I had it all figured out in my head that I would spend the night asleep in the lounge, but when I got there I was invited to look around and thought that for $70 there wasn’t that much on offer. The buffet looked tired, and people were lounging around on comfy chairs fair enough, but that was not what I was expecting to see. I had fantasised about little cubicles where I could really lay out and snore.   It was now close to midnight  and my departure was at 7am. I realised that my phone had lost power and I didn’t have a charger on me with the correct electrical plug as that was all snug in my suitcase. Eventually, I found the parade of airport shops which were all closed apart fro...

The Wonderful Wedding by Vivien Teasdale Wayne was a werewolf with wonderful ways Who dreamed a daring dream one day. As he stood in the shower, soaping his skin He thought how thoroughly taut and thin Were his cheeks and chops and charming chin But, longing for lean and lithe-looking limbs, He jauntily joined Johnny’s Junior gym. Here huffing and hoisting, he heaved and hopped And swore to sustain this sweating, and shopped For carbs and calories in dinner and cake. Then with plentiful proteins packing his plate And arousing his appetite, amply he ate. By devouring this diet, our doughty disciple Soon ruffled his rivals with rhomboids that rippled. Then one day Wendy walked in for a workout. The gentlemen gaped, soon beginning to growl. Such preening and pouting, and powerful pumping Of iron, but ignoring their ill-judged insulting She shook off their shameless, saucy saluting Merely marking it down as unmanly madness Or boisterous beha...

Earth spheres swelling, shrouded in darkness, sensing new warmth, hearing the whispers. Faintly at first then beginning to call. Needing to grow, to cast off the clods, not daring to breathe. Follow the sounds, words on the breeze resounding within. Slowly emerging from winter repose, the whispers of springtime beckon the brave. The first to appear. in shy revelation. And, confidence growing, ‘midst burgeoning green, displaying their treasures, each bud becomes bloom. The whispering fades. Spring’s song is beginning.