Is it a short stay or are you going to take up residence? It’s a simple question when it comes to setting new year aspirations. It’s not just architects that formulate the best laid plans, for we all have great intentions, and then life can just bulldoze its way in and knock us down. As…
Tag: Happy New Year
IT’S 2025 – HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Live each day as though this may happen tomorrow! How exciting would this be!
WHISKY & GINGER
A cat called Ginger and a kraken called Whisky arrived into port all brisk and frisky Thirsty and inspired, their visas expired, they vowed to elope and simultaneously retired They celebrated with ale, and far too much rum, awash in much merriment and plentiful fun But it all went wrong at the New Year gong,…
RAM & COKE
A ram butted in to a row on the street, about who told the best joke in the Naval Animal Fleet ‘Oh that’s easy,’ said a llama, in funky suede pyjama’s. ‘Yeah, that’s nailed on,’ said the camouflaged taipan. ‘Argue no more,’ said every carnivore. ‘It’s Croc,’ roared the crowd, aloud and proud. ‘Prove it,’…
THE SNAKE BITE
A snake had a drink on a winter’s night, and challenged a snowman to a fight. A crowd soon gathered and stood in a row, wincing and flinching at the sound of each blow. When the snake took a bite, they summoned a vet ‘Who won?’ the vet cried. ‘Am I too late to place…
Goodreads: My Year in Books 2016
To balance your writing and reading is essential for any writer. It can be a real challenge, with too much of one and not enough of the other leading to a – in the style, if not the words of Dr Emmett Brown – a Transverse Imbalance in the artists Flux-Capacitor! So I settle on 40 books a…
Tom Harris Writes 