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Gordon Judge, 1999 to present. Please contact me at email.geoverse@gmail.com if you'd like to use any of the poems.Thanks:
With thanks to my sources of inspiration: my wife and her Open University books; Horsham Geological Field Club, its speakers and field trips; my son for sharing his internet space; and, er, well, life, really.
Tag Archives: Life
In my youth
I am, and I can prove it! Continue reading
Agates are like people
It’s what’s inside that counts . . . Continue reading
Life according to Marks
An email from Marks & Spencer on 4 May 2017 said: “Life’s short. Let’s spend it well. Life’s too short for hesitations.” I wanted to argue; but they were right on one point . . . If life is so … Continue reading
Give it time
It’s what life needs. Continue reading
Mending things
It’s tricky, these days! Continue reading
The Society of Radiator Geeks
A guide showing us round a museum remarked that an earlier visitor had become excited over one of the building’s radiators – apparently, it was a rare example of its type. He’d told the guide he was a member of … Continue reading
Life is like a ladder
The rungs seem to get closer together . . . Continue reading
A dog’s tale
Tables turned! Continue reading
A Round Tuit
It’s all I need – or is it? Continue reading
Fallen headlines
There’s a Society for them . . . Continue reading
Trolleyhogs
Found in supermarkets . . . Continue reading
The milkman’s horse
Long gone, fondly remembered Continue reading
Things
Just phases we go through Continue reading
Walkies
An unhealthy obsession? Continue reading
Your face is familiar
Have we met before? Continue reading
Age
You’re as old as your cells Continue reading
The cleaner
Life is but a dream Continue reading
Early warning
A matter of weighting Continue reading
Skin deep
Epidermal support Continue reading
Clickety-click
The Bingo game of life Continue reading
Builder’s bladder
Evidence of Darwinian evolution? Continue reading
The purpose of life
Unpasteurised thoughts Continue reading
Granddad?
I’ve been given a title Continue reading
Whatever next?
I’m wondering, too… Continue reading
On the bus down to Brighton
An eventful journey Continue reading
If it’s broke. . .
A technological fix Continue reading
Knocking at the door
Not HIM, already? Continue reading
On the end of the world being nigh
Scientists become prophets Continue reading
I give up
I’m not the man I was Continue reading
Perhaps
They seek him here, they seek him there… Continue reading
I wonder
A celestial put-down Continue reading
Ignorance is bliss
Christopher Robin to the rescue Continue reading
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Conkering heroes
The playground’s not the same, these days Continue reading
Definitions
If they’re no good, or absent, they tell you something worth knowing Continue reading
Alarmed!
Behind the notice on the door Continue reading
No news is good news
Of dogs and men Continue reading
Let us from this table rise
But not as quickly as we used to. . . Continue reading
Nostalgia
A good wallow Continue reading
Retail therapy
A learning experience Continue reading
The interstices of life
They are the nooks and crannies of life: you have to look for them, but they’re there . . . Continue reading
Vest is best
Something close to my heart… Continue reading
Births, Marriages and Deaths
Definitely not vanity publishing! Continue reading
There’s always one
One face of Mr Sodd’s Law Continue reading
Did I turn the oven off?
A solution to the traveller’s curse Continue reading
No time like the present
Now, then… Continue reading
Dust to dust
The answer to a persistent problem Continue reading
What if?
Are the odds stacked against you? Continue reading
Indecent exposure
A cost-benefit situation Continue reading
Science and religion
It’s a mystery Continue reading
What goes up…
Look out! Continue reading
Reflections
A new you? Continue reading
The lift
This lift is different from all the others! Continue reading
Ageology
How not to lie about your age Continue reading
Earthquakes have no morals
The backside of life’s rich tapestry Continue reading
Time’s passed
Getting your head round geological time-scales Continue reading
Ravages of time
The age of man that Shakespeare missed Continue reading