Monthly Archives: Feb 2016

End of the Advocacy and Mentoring Service?

Now, this is  on a much more serious note. The Mentoring and Advocacy Department of Bath Mind including the much valued befriending service will cease to be on the 31st of March 2015*. They have had to manage without funding … Continue reading

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The Art of Conversation

On the news our PM says He’ll bulldoze where I live today But remember iron Mrs T The Right to Buy her particularity We spoke of where to house my friends As social housing never ends Then talked of keeping … Continue reading

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Friend or Foe?

Effervescent from the ground The water rises, soaking sound It trickles during summer heat Depleted yet never lost to us The Autumn rains bring flooding despair All life seems compromised, our homes declare Emergency on harrowing scale Again and again … Continue reading

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Yellow Blighters

The weather in deepest, darkest Jan Is suddenly cold whilst I am pale and wan But December was warm and overly wet The dandelions are in bloom, the season is set. Daffodils are out in time with catkins Cel endings … Continue reading

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