Review – Baby Boomers and Brutalism

Raw Concrete: the beauty of Brutalism by Barnabas Calder This book came out in 2016. Through dogged perseverance, I have managed to get it from my local library twice now – it is very popular and far from cheap to buy. It’s popularity is slightly surprising as it is not an easy read, if you

Sprouts

I wrote this poem nearly ten years ago, when Tesco stopped stocking loose sprouts for a period.  I wrote to them about it and wove the reply I got into the poem. Some few years after I wrote the poem Tesco began stocking loose sprouts again, although I can’t take any credit for that! I