I still don’t like the word BLOG, blogedy blog, but I like scribbling a few words now and then. In some ways it’s not much different to so-called cavemen scribbling their messages on walls. Trouble is our ‘stuff’ is painted out there somewhere in cyberland, alien-hinter-space or other such invisible territories.

I remember being asked to do workshops in a school in the old days (about seven years ago) and the teacher asking me to bring in some drafts of published work if I had them. I did have some drafts on handwritten scraps and tatty A4 sheets which I brought with me. We had a wonderful few days discussing the writing process from day one to finished product. I no longer keep drafts because I work mostly on the computer!! That’s progress, or is it?

I don’t know how I got on to that theme but, anyway, what I wanted to say was that I have been asked to write a book, Hamburg in the light of Bridges, (working title). I feel like a caveman and that’s brilliant! let me explain: The book is to include observations, poems, stories, and some half-forgotten things that ‘busy’ life tends to push to one side or ignore. I jump on my bike and cycle about with a keener set of eyes and I’m having fun talking to people about experiences from football through possible Danish invasions and on to the rarified world of books, poets and composers. Most of my ‘gathering work’ is conducted in German, but I am writing in English…it is exciting! The caveman in me is rampant!

Ahoy from Hamburg.