Visit The World Of Michael G Kimber
Scattered amongst these pages, and also in the picture gallery, you will find some paintings or illustrations. In most cases clicking on the picture will enlarge it. More pictures will be added as and when I can..
For starters this picture , produced at the beginning of the 21st. Century, uses as its central theme a monochrome photograph from my family archive.
It depicts an ancestor leading a hay cart from the field to the barn. That sepia picture was taken nearly one hundred years earlier at the then family farm in Buckinghamshire where the Kimbers were well established in the community. I hope my Great Aunt Doris is happy in her new North Yorkshire setting.
About This Site
Welcome to this, the fourth incarnation of my web-site.
Those of you who have visited me before will, I hope, find this ‘new improved’ version easier to navigate. I hope too that you will browse a while and maybe find something to your liking.
Some of my poems try to reflect the lighter side of life, though it is hard to avoid its dark side entirely, and some more serious subjects have been addressed.
Similarly, in my short stories I try to find a humorous twist; perhaps even a little magic.
There are also four novels on offer, three normal length and a shorter one. Read on or off-line as you wish, or, if you prefer, you may print them to read at your leisure.
The shorter book is the only story I have written primarily for younger readers; though some of my short stories err in that direction. It is in the form of a novella, but you won’t find a Harry Potter, nor a Tolkien. ‘There be no dragons here’. Well, not quite anyway!
I am, as the bible will assert, past my sell by date. My three score and ten years were, to use biblical parlance, accomplished . No matter! Since those words were writ, things have come on a pace, so I guess - ever the optimist - I’ve a year or two to go!!
Writing came late to me, so I will never attain the skill I admire in so many other writers, but I keep on trying.
My artistic background (if I dare call it so) is as a fairly competent photographer (at one time President of the Leeds Camera Club) An artist with some talent, but whose moments of glory came less frequently than I might have wished. And sadly, a failed musician. Over the years I tried, with little success, to make some headway with a number of musical instruments. So I guess the pen (OK, the computer keyboard) is the latest in a long line of instruments.
Will the pattern now be broken? Well I doubt that I will become the next writing sensation, but you see it doesn’t really matter, for just like all those other attempts, I have enjoyed the process of learning; revelled in the satisfaction of small improvements when they came (and as they come) and treasured the generous encouragement from my peers when they felt it was deserved. That’s good enough for me.
The Picture below was taken about 1955, during my stay in the beautiful island of Ceylon (Sri Lanka now of course). How I wish that my time there had been better spent. Ah well, as they say - youth is wasted on the young!
‘Bike’ fans might recognise the Norton ES2 (500cc)
The picture below was taken during a ‘reading’ at the 2006 WriteLink Meadowfest
Thank you for visiting my web-site, and I hope that you will find something to your liking. If you do please tell me. If you don’t, please be brave and tell me that too. I will appreciate your honesty, and because I don’t sell my work it’s the only way I will know how I am doing.
