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How Full Are You?
Introduction I'll be honest I joined Vocal to win challenges but was soon aware that I will never be good enough in Vocal's eyes for that, but I have gained an absolute treasure chest of wonderful supportive loving friends and while recognition with financial recompense is great to get, my friendships to me are worth far more.
By Mike Singleton - Mikeydredabout a year ago in Psyche
The Bones Of Sordric
All In A Night’s Work It had been a good night. The house he had robbed had no one in and no alarm, the other thing the back door had not been locked. He wandered through the house, this guy still had DVDs and CDs so obviously had not moved with the times.
By Mike Singleton - Mikeydredabout a year ago in Fiction
EnjoyTheBedFeeling
Seems I have been writing poems for a bit longer than I thought. This is the original text from the Seven Days In post The thing is it's Saturday tomorrow so this is a distinct possibility for all of us. And I need some music to go with it, and I think Kites by Simon Dupree and The Big Sound (who later morphed into the excellent Gentle Giant) but be a perfectly ethereal way to wrap this up. The video is something I took at the Washington Kite Festival in 2010 which I went to with Fiona, my friend Nicky and her children Sharné, Alisha and Donovan
By Mike Singleton - Mikeydredabout a year ago in Poets
There Is Always Hope
I have been feeling very down, so much that I decided to stop writing and then paradoxically decided to write about it. It is so easy for me to feel self-pity but then thought maybe I should write a poem about kindness. In our cashless society yesterday I picked up a pound that someone had dropped on an Edinburgh pavement, and then later a homeless guy asked me for a tab (cigarette) which I didn't have, but I did have that pound coin which I gave to him. It only cost me the effort of picking it up off the pavement but it was worth it to see him smile and thank me.
By Mike Singleton - Mikeydredabout a year ago in Poets
- Top Story - February 2023
The Arthur's Seat FailureTop Story - February 2023
Introduction I had intended to try to climb Arthur’s Seat in Edinburgh on my current visit to actually do the climb and get some photographs from the summit. I do like being up a height (even though I have a fear of heights) just to prove to myself that I can do it. At the end of this story are two other stories documenting my climbing exploits (successes and failures) in Edinburgh which you may find interesting if you enjoy my ramblings in this particular piece.
By Mike Singleton - Mikeydredabout a year ago in Wander
Something Happened
Introduction This is one of those odd posts that I do every now and then, where I want to tell you about something, but I can’t mention the thing that I want to tell you about because it may cause embarrassment for someone else if I mention what the thing is, and when I say embarrassment I meant the sort of embarrassment where someone has done something really pleasant for your, that has but a smile on your face and made you happier by raising your spirits, but they are just doing what they normally do and I certainly wouldn’t want to cause them any discomfort by naming them or something they are associated with or connected to.
By Mike Singleton - Mikeydredabout a year ago in Confessions