Cait O'Connor

Dear Diary, Samhain Art Nouveau greeting card - Oestara Publishing (I shall start with a poem and end with a blessing). Yea, she ha...

Kitty Finn This post is a response to a kind of Meme posed in the wonderful blog that is Chronicles of a Country Girl. (do go an...

Windswept by Paul Henry Dear Diary, Who can tell the dancer from the dance? W B Yeats. This is just a bit of a Friday ramble, j...

  The Model She is no soft-soap Cinderella, invites abound, she wades in wealth. Kohled eyes cast far and wide, she slinks the...

 John Lennon would have been 70 tomorrow had he lived. God bless you John. Yoko is to call for peace in your name. Peace, Imagine. ...

I have to post a poem today don't I?  It's National Poetry Day so I thought I would show you the second prize in the Mslexia...

Every now and then I read a poem that is outstanding and this is one of them, it was written by Margaret Livingston and won First Prize in M...

 I haven' t posted a song for ages and sometimes only music will do, it's that kind of evening I am afraid, there is damn all on TV ...

Dear Diary, Photo by John Ellis Waste no opportunities.   This is called following the light Tao The last few days of September h...

Dear Diary, It has been too long since my last post, many apologies. Of course I have excuses but won't list them, far too ...

Dear Diary, Roald Dahl writing in his shed I haven’t posted any blessings for ages but here are a few heart-lifters, reasons to be che...

The Ant Story : Working Life See more presentations by myportal  |  Upload your own PowerPoint presentations A friend emailed this to me y...

Just a poem today. Migration/Safe Home I am often kneeling, not exactly praying but usually dreamily weeding, revelling in the somet...

Dear Diary, Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. John Keats I’ve changed my head...

Dear Diary, If I am walking with two men each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate th...

Dear Diary, I have just finished reading The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo , our book group’s choice for September which was picked by two...

I am Eve your mother and I am evolution. Set a seed in me or about me and it will grow with just pure belief and hardly any effort conc...

Top of the Hill Henry, Grace c.1920 Grace Henry (1868-1953) was born Emily Grace Mitchell in Aberdeen . She studied in Brussels and P...

 Mrs McGrath. Just a song for a Sunday from the excellent Bob Springsteen Seeger Sessions, an uplifting CD if ever there was one. Play it ...

My local writing group, the Irfon Valley Writers are running a creative writing competition which will be judged by the well known poet Rut...