Welcome to this, the third incarnation of my website. 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.
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But doom and gloom is for the real world; the world from which you are probably trying to escape; if only for a little while. There are also two full novels on offer, to read on-line, or, if you prefer, to print off and read at your leisure. Also in the novels section 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! Thank you, and I hope you will join me again quite soon. MGK
Scattered amongst these pages will be some pictures and illustrations, added as and when I can. In most cases clicking on the picture will enlarge it. For starters the picture on the right, produced at the beginning of the 21st. Century, uses as its central theme a photograph from my family archive, of an ancestor leading the hay cart. That picture, in sepia, was
taken nearly one hundred years earlier at the then family farm in Buckinghamshire. I hope my Great Aunt likes her new North Yorkshire setting.
The Picture above 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 on the right was taken during a ‘reading’ at the 2006 WriteLink Meadowfest