April 2022 – Forward To The Past

Post 20 all about birds

As Spring takes hold we take pleasure in our garden birds. GARDEN BIRDS March to April 2022 (adapted from Bird Life April 2013) After gales and lashing rain Our garden soaks in weak Spring sun And birds return to sing again The mating rituals begun Two mistles flutter in the elms Their chirring calls clearly […]

Post 19 Mothers, midwives and management

This is my first ‘ode free’ blog, due to no suitable historic verse. Normal service to be resumed with the next post! I little thought that this next blog would be such a glaring example of Forward to the Past realities; then and now. But, with the disturbing Ockenden report of deaths and cover ups […]