I grumbled lightly

I blundered rightlyl and out loud

When giving lectures, paying bills

When at a seance I met my host

Kissing on the windowsill

We ate a steak, and a cream tea

Making love by memory

His family were  well endiwed

And yet  he never made a will

And every day he burned the toas

My tranquilizers made me  chill

The cakes were faked beside the sea

While we made love on the TV

I lead my pupils with heads bowed

Beneath the red brick cotton mill

And so it was we saw the ghosts

And spirits wrote with their long quills.

Beneath the cake, we saw frogs freeze

Cats enchanted by the trees.

Happy New year

Thank you very much to all my readers and friends here

I can’t tell you how much it means to me while I’m going through these difficult times to have people reading my  offerings.

I’ve just had the physiotherapist here and despite having rheumatoid arthritis and various other health problems she is very impressed by how strong I am

And I am surprised because I’ve not been doing a lot of exercise and have not been walking about outdoors for two months. So I am puzzled. But I do know that at one time I was very deficient in vitamin d and it was only when I got put on some massive doses that I was able to learn to walk again.

And that makes me think about an article recently in the guardian newspaper saying that the number of people being taken to hospital in in Britain because of vitamin deficiencies has risen a lot in the last year.

Wherever you are please try to eat a good diet and do whatever exercise you can because we’re all need each other and we may not see each other but we’re interacting online and in other ways and I’d like to pass on this useful information.

And if for some reason you have to stop leading a normal life don’t doubt that you can start again if you are determined and if you can get help from physiotherapists and other people