Creative Works

Mi fayther waur a painter,
afore ‘e went to war.
‘e papered t’upstairs landin’
an’ painted mi bedroom do-or.

He sat in the pub when the world was brown,
In the afternoon of his humdrum life.
He ordered a double and phoned his wife,

‘I told you I was ill.’ Spike Milligan’s epitaph

I muse in Saint Thomas’ Church in Winchelsea,