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Category: A Day in the Life of a ‘Steel City’ Man…

  • THE BOMB

    This is a poem loosely based on my experiences as a soldier in Northern Ireland, specifically in South Armagh. It’s a bright day in the Province          And Jack Frost is about          All’s quiet on watch          And then, There’s a shout …     …

  • TOO MUCH WATER UNDER THE BRIDGE…

    Of course at 74 years old, as much as I wanted to, I could not reach for him…he was far too fast …

  • MUCH WATER UNDER THE BRIDGE…

    A DAY IN THE LIFE OF A STEEL CITY MAN… DAY .. WHATEVER … # 4 Still in the Barnstable Krankenhaus (North Devon District Hospital), incarcerated far, far from the Steel City where my home is. Feeling a lot better but still waiting for an Angiogram in Exeter, where there is a long waiting list…

  • MUCH WATER UNDER THE BRIDGE ..day whatever #3

    Here we are again…still in the North Devon District hospital, frittering away my ‘holiday’, wired up to state of the art technology, which is eating my telemetry like a Hungry Hippo. I can amuse myself by messing with the readings, holding my breath for a while, causing the wavy lines to change, or doing exercises…

  • MUCH WATER UNDER THE BRIDGE .. DAY WHATEVER!!

    The holiday got off to a good start, a good start indeed! in fact, the only good thing so far (as far as holidays go) Was the great hotel, The Park hotel, the food is/was excellent and the staff went the extra mile at all times. The single most enjoyable thing of my stay so…

  • Much water under the bridge-DAY #1.

    Lovely day to start the road trip down to DEVON for cream teas and a posh hotel. Being as my home county is YORKSHIRE, I can’t see there is much to shout about down there, I mean what can possibly be better than God’s own County, Yorkshire? It’s been a funny start to the trip.…

  • MUCH WATER UNDER THE BRIDGE …

    As the old saying goes, “A lot of water has gone under the bridge” since I last posted a ‘steelcityman’ blog, and  just like water, life rushes by, faster as you get older, or it seems that way to me. I’m 73 years old now, and feeling every year of it. It’s a time of reckoning…

  • Another day in A&E

    This is a re blog of a post I wrote some years ago whilst ‘people watching’ in the Emergency Dept., at my local Hospital. My wife and I had taken Mum and Dad (now sadly deceased) down to the Emergency room as Dad was in excruciating pain and could barely move, let alone walk. The…

  • INTERNET MADNESS !! …. AND WALT WHITMAN.

    As some of you may know, I publish a Vlog on Youtube (steelcityman) and during the covid 19 Pandemic and the consequent lockdown and restrictions on traveling, I’ve been doing poetry readings each day rather than a generic Vlog. The latest reading I did was an excellent poem by the very influential American poet, WALT…

  • Creative Writing and Lockdown….

    A few months ago I enrolled on a short Creative Writing course (inspired by no less a personage that ELLEN HAWLEY, Author and Blogger extraordinaire). I thoroughly enjoy reading Ellen’s blogs and I have often wished I could write with the same flair and professionalism that she does. I want to be able to write…