Here are a collection of links to pages I can heartily recommend.
Care Community Action
Advocating better standards for Care workers and those they care for.
Milborn House
https://milbornhouse.bandcamp.com
This co-operative music publisher publishes my music.
Rory Duncan: Braintree Music
Rory Duncan is a fine keyboard player, I recommend his work to you all.
Chris, I love the path. It makes me want to get my hiking boots on and set off on a journey. Best wishes for the website. David
It’s an uplifting experience working with Chris and his musical ideas…. long may he continue…. I was very impressed with the website and quality of the recordings…. Mark
What a surprise to find this website!
Yes Chris, even after 50 years I am still writing too:
https://www.facebook.com/StroudPoetryWall/
So many nice memories of you and Bob in the late 1960s.
Here is one of my recent ones:
TWILIGHT DREAMER
Is she out there
In the ether
No keyboard to her whereabouts
Apart from legend land’s port heave-ho
Keeled up
Reeled up
Tethered out
Is she out there
On the quayside
Lashed up to ambition’s aims
Vulnerable as full gale drifter
Yet anchored for her worldly gains
Is she out there
As teenager
Rattling in mature constraints
Skin thermometer
Life’s barometer
In stress’s
Smoking
Toxic
Wake
Is she out there
Twilight dreamer
Worn
Weary lips
From frogs a croaking
Reddened to embold their way
Princess
For her partner soldiering
Is she out there
Lost forever
No other of her kind
Sheltering harbour swaddles her
Coddled in the mind.
Back again.
Chris, Looking through your pages I saw the reference to care workers.
Not long ago, I came across a carer when I was sat alone in a Toby Carvery.
The experience was quite moving.
CARING
Care worker looks
A smile she sends me
As I sit and eat
In Toby Carvery
Other seats empty
Just us three
Her ward imprisoned
By infirmity
She sits to eat
And stands to feed
As workout needs
Athletically
She’s up and down
And running round
Coughs impediments
Compound
But for all her cares
And as I leave
She took the time
A smile to send me
Chris
Good to bump into you both this morning. No idea how to get in touch with you again (phone number/email etc) so hope this messidge reaches you
Here’s a poem for you
Hegley pastiche written after going to see his gig at the Mercury
I’ve driven over from Wivenhoe
Very carefully
To see John Hegley
Fully
That’s it.
Chin chin
Peter