Month May 2023

Coronation

Union flags and bunting. The Kings Head. A telly on the wall And a row of mugs Raising glasses. Bottoms up, no shilling (coronation bitter £4 a pint) But press ganged by the Daily Mail All the same. Toasting two…

After the plough

Ring rolling in a Bedfordshire field. Breaking up the heavy clodsAnd leverets. Blind to the danger.  I stopped at first. Got down from the tractorTo shoo and scatter. At first. Too many of the sods  Harrowing. The clatterFlint on iron drowning out…