Who lives at Stone Cottage?
Firstly, there’s a man who sometimes writes poetry and sometimes prose-fiction. He is greying. Likes walking and photography. Likes to cook, has a penfriend in Poland and is known, on this website, as Fender (that’s me – goodness knows why I am writing in third person!). I am keeping the blog and will write most of the posts. Here is a sample of my poetry:
Our Love
our love was built in the sixties
hit ice on its maiden voyage
and sank without a trace
sex is not easy to endure
when the fridge is left open
cold words lose their fire
in the empty moments
of everyday
a few more flowers in the vase
would have been nice
another joint
might have done the trick
remember how your legs
squeezed my love
into our soul
remember how we cried
when cupid sewed
our hearts together
remember the time
you threw our song
out of the window
that’s when I realised
love is vinyl
breaks too easy
sometimes I want your legs
around me again sometimes
I just want to know
why cupid continues to live
in the ice box
of our fridge
And then there is Sarah. She likes walking too (and photography), has a whippet and plays the cornet. She is a Counsellor training in psychology, a Buddhist-Pagan (or Pagan-Buddhist) and enjoys relaxing on the PlayStation. Sarah was once a Christian but lost her belief in a personal, all-powerful God. She bakes – bread and cakes (which is why I have joined the gym).
Finally, there is Margaret. She is Sarah’s mother and has been living with us for seven years. She is quite a personality. She has had a lot of health problems – a diagnoses of inoperable cancer most recently – but she does not let it get her down. She lost her Christian faith several years ago but continues to believe that the universe is meaningful. Her hobbies, at the moment, are: shopping and puzzles.
