Cowley Road Cafe'

Writings from Oxford

Friends Reunited

..............feeling both a sense of deep excitement and simultaneous trepidation as the names of my then peers, contemporaries and there respective places and achievements in this life, this world were detailed upon the screens. It was startling and surprising; names that I'd almost forgotten I'd not heard of or seen for so many years came up under the lists of schools, workplaces and universities. Babies had been born, marriages and divorces, things in essence so simplistic but so essential to fundamental humanity were all scribed

Concept House

I realised the great capacity we have as human beings for caring for one another, for empathy and for most of all love. My peer group developed very intense feelings of care and 'love' for one another at some points, which is how the programme is meant to work. When I mean 'love' it's in the brotherly, selfless sense of the word rather than the sexual connotations. 'Love is as Love Does,' was a slogan I wrote down for the 'Word of the Day'. Ultimately life's just one long lonely journey tho' - "You make your way down the drive here alone and you leave here¦¦..alone¦¦¦¦.

The Dark

Small heads and hands ‘bib’ and ‘bob’ apples, the Trick or Treat – do we ‘member Adam’s treachery

Tomorrow

The voices on the radio were strained, reception muffled. There was something about New York, Australia and other far away places.

The Good Doctor

He perversely realised that most of the fish were becoming extinct, growing extra eyes and heads and changing sex from oestrogen pollution.