Shanks’s pony is getting tired
Shanks’s Pony is an old idiom for feet and walking. I’ve been having problems with my feet – they don’t like carrying me any more.
You can’t balance on the tipping point
We live our life making choices, but sometimes our choices take us over a tipping point and we have to live with the consequences.
Doggerland to Aeyland and back in time for tea
Doggerland is the made-up name for a place that really existed and for which there is archaeological evidence. Aeyland is complete fiction.
Of the muse Clio and other daemons
Over on the website of Pens Around the World, every second week, we publish writing prompts as Pensives. Last week, one of the prompts my friend Debbie Hubbard gave us was about writers’ muses. She asked “Do you have a muse?“ My answer is, Yes, I do. Kind of. Clio Once upon a long ago, … More…
From the reservoir: a decade of TheSupercargo in August
After all these years of writing for TheSupercargo, there’s a reservoir of posts stretching back for more than a decade. Here are some.
Hundred Waters at the Skerry Port
A photo essay from the Hundretwasser (Hundred-waters) retrospective currently at the Nordic Watercolour Museum in Tjörn.
Call it Huxley in a Comedy of Manners
A reading diary entry reviewing This Much Huxley Knows, Kalla det vad fan du vill and Love in a Cold Climate and presenting them as Comedies of Manners.
Guilty secret – flash fiction
Guilty secret is a piece of flash fiction originally published last year in Far Flung, the last Writers Abroad anthology.
Fire in the Bowl or Cinderella and the Flaming Deposit
Fire in the bowl, or Cinderella and the flaming deposit, a supposedly eco-friendly adventure from my recent holiday (though I have my doubts)
Water in town and island life: holiday photos
Water in town and holiday life on a Baltic island: a photo essay. Mrs SC and I took our first post-Covid holiday last week. Here’s an account