Other Things

Share in some of my wanderings, wonderings, ponderings, visitings and OTHER THINGS!

I love for things to rhyme but really couldn’t think of a suitable rhyming word that encompassed ‘other things’! These poems are mostly about people, pets and plants.

2025

A Memory that Sticks
Seasons
Yet Another New Year

2024

Christmas Day is over
Seasonal Carpets
Keep Christmas simple
The Trip
Wednesday Group
After the long Summer break
Little did I know
Rambling Vera!
Persistent Pigeons
Sand inland
Which Way?
Is it a Cat?
Noises Overhead
On the Train Again

2023

…she phoned for a doctor…
Talking for Eng(er)land
The Kitty Cam
We come to Remember
East Anglia
Filling your bottle of water
I-spy!
Is it a cat
Kings Lynn
Navigating the Fenlands
Peterborough to Ely
The tale of the bike
What a big cake!
Technical Glitch
Baking
Late Night Noise
Poetic Formulae
Cats...
My Cough
Odd Things in the Garden
Cartooning with Words…
Greyness
Kentish Lady limerick
Lettuce Eat!?
The Mouse
A nonsense rhyme
Something’s not quite right…
Word pictures
Belated wishes
Cycling on an exercise bike
It’s cold out
PDR process
1st January
9th January
Another new year
Not de-mist-ified
Winter cycling

2022

Is there a catch?
It’s coming, ready or not!
More rain!
I’m still waiting!
Is it a result?
It's Raining
Animal magic
Diagnosis, please
My Hair (2)
All kinds of weather
Every cloud has a silver lining
Remembering Places
When we’re away…
Luke's birthday
Sprinkles
The Toad
The Tomatoes
Fear
Not there now?
Holiday plans
I jump
Noisy office
Not forgotten - our cat
Summer
The Queen’s Jubilee
Cat in trouble
Do you want some apples today?
Work
Ac(k)
I could write a poem about that
A year since
Friday 13th March 2020

2021

Bananagram poems
New Year's Day
Scaredy Cats
Fireworks
The Moon
My Bones
My Hair
Something Funny Happened…
Let’s See
No more Herbie – in memoriam
A Year
Little did we know…
Remembering
Herbie's Demise
Clean Cat?
Growing from Seed
Since Last March
Once upon a time
The Sleeping Cat
A Night with a Cat
Baking
Chocolate Cake
Grief
Mary Deaves (née May) – 1991
Pastry
The End
There was a young lady...
Vera May (née Flitney) 1932-2020
A Grey Day
Get Well Soon
My Dad
No Waiting – my dad’s last day(s)
No Waiting (2) – my dad’s last days
Scar

2020

A Common Cold
Farewell (2)
What is Fear?
Another Farewell
Lockdown
Loss
Dear God
Goodbye?
Herbie
My Mum
So Much to Do - planning a funeral
Waiting
Waiting (2)
Parents Grow Old
What's British?
Farewell

I hope you've enjoyed sharing in these poems - I will be adding more soon, so please check back later!