The hole in the wall
A little boy looks into a dry stone wall and imagines who might inhabit it. Poem with illustrations. A6 softback (postcard size) 24 pages.
Words and illustrations by Ann Perrin
Produced by The Dry Stone Walling Education ProjectThe Puppeteers Daughter
The poems explore the complexity of life as the daughter of marionette makers and performers. There are poems concerned with life, love and loss, also the seaside, artists, allotments and the eccentricities of life.
Buy now - £6.60Don’t Throw Away the Daisies (illustrated)
Ann’s poetry covers the big topics of love and death with originality. Take for instance the title poem which is full of surprises yet also wonderfully poignant.
Tag Archives: Lifestyle
The cottage
A dawn chorus, a frisky pheasant skitters across the lawn, an inquisitive deer, a shrubbery, clumps of blue and yellow petals, chopped logs in stacks, an abandoned tree house hangs to the ground, a broken swing creaks, along to the … Continue reading
The end of the beach hut?
This was supposed to be a poem but ended up as prose, but then anything is an improvement on the blank page! The end of the beach hut Sitting in battered beach hut, rusty bolts, badly … Continue reading
Posted in Brighton - out and about, Cheer yourself up, Photography
Tagged beach huts, Brighton - out and about, Cheer yourself up on a dull day, Creativity, Grandparents, life, Lifestyle, lifesyle, Nature - birds, Out and about in Brighton, Photography, Retirement, sea or country, the end of an era, the end of our beach hut, The joys of beach huts
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April alphabet challenge – H is for happinesss
Today things that make me happy at random – although I think that happiness is often the ability to live in the moment. To avoid untimely gossip, to maintain one’s health if one can, to endeavour to be kindly and to … Continue reading
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Tagged A poem about a tortoise, A poem about friendship, A present from Japan, A tree house, Andrew Ballantyne - Harpist, April alphabet challenge with Sundays off!, April international alphabet challenge, Brighton - out and about, Cafe Poets Rottingdean, Cheer yourself up on a dull day, Cousin in 'The Fleet Air Arm', Garden birds, Happiness living in the moment, Hugh Darrington - 'Strawberries to the moon', International April alphabet challenge, Liberace a marionette from the 60s, Life stype, Lifestyle, Madness and poetry, Out and about in Brighton, Photography, Sunsets, The bluebells at Heaven Farm, The meaning of life, The old lacemakers cushion, The Weald Allotment, Think positive, Tree houses, Wise words in retirement, Women who lost lovers in the Great War
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April alphabet challenge C
C is for candles Light the candles watch them shine see him blow them out on time make a wish, what will it be? keep the secret, don’t tell me! Seems yesterday I pushed the buggy round the park and … Continue reading
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Tagged a poem about birthday candles, alphabet challenge - c, An Eighteenth birthday, April international alphabet challenge, Brighton - out and about, Cheer yourself up on a dull day, Giant trampoline in Brighton, Lifestyle, Out and about in Brighton, Photography, Poem for an 18th Birthday from gram's point of view, Rhyme for a grandson, The meaning of life, The meaning of life and everything
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Easter bonnets, life, the world and everything…
Loved these little hats from my old house, recently discovered in the loft in a box, so today thrown together a little film. Been up and about going to one of two special things like the ‘Pighog’ event the … Continue reading
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Tagged Adobe 6.5 for easy edting, Brighton - out and about, Cheer yourself up on a dull day, Creative writing, How make a marionette and Mr Punch enjoy Easter, How to make one minute films - short and sweet, Lifestyle, Magical miniature hats, Making films the easy way, Mr Punch goes the same way as Cyprus, Out and about in Brighton, OVFM film maker comes up with some quick films, Photography, Punch and Judy, Punch's bad investment, Saltdean, The meaning of life and everything
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Feel good factor 1 – New Jersey Nights
One minute I am having a harp lesson the next off to a musical show at The Pavilion, featuring the music of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons. Well my musical tastes are pretty cosmopolitan. I was there thanks … Continue reading
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