Were you there?

. The Listeners ‘Is there anybody there?’ said the Traveller,    Knocking on the moonlit door; And his horse in the silence champed the grasses    Of the forest’s ferny floor: And a bird flew up out of the turret,   Above the Traveller’s head: And he smote upon the door again a second time;   ‘Is there anybody there?’ he said. But no one descended to […]

Autumn Avalanche After the North Berks hop, you might have thought that the mad football hopping world might wind down from the crazy merry-go-round, into calmer waters. Not a bit of it; it seemed that games far and near continued to fly past with machine gun rapidity. Even so, I fell one short of fifty […]