Spring Song

Don Webb called this rondeau one of the best nature poems they'd published at BwS and my, they have some good poets there so I was well chuffed. But I do like this little poem and I hope you will too:
http://bewilderingstories.com/issue387/spring_song.html

Here's a bonus haiku:

a bee on the snap-dragon

buzzed off before I snapped

camera shy

One of my weirdest stories

The Carmody Complex is up at Microhorror http://www.microhorror.com/microhorror/author/oonah-v-joslin/the-carmody-complex/

Keep taking the medication!

My big box garden

Last year I had big boxes built from railway sleepers erected in my garden and the neighbours wondered what they were for. This year they are fulfilling their purpose and hopefully by next year these plants will have climbed to the top.

At Bewildering Stories

My fuuny take on the difficulties of writing Sci-Fi
http://bewilderingstories.com/issue386/going_nowhere.html

I blog about why I wrote it here:
http://oovj.wordpress.com/2010/05/31/trekkie/

Stranger Still and other links

My story Stranger Still is up at EDF today http://www.everydayfiction.com/stranger-still-by-oonah-v-joslin/ and a very strange tale it is too.

Tree Surgeon is up at BwS and also a story from my friend John Ritchie and a poem by the wonderful John Stocks
http://bewilderingstories.com/issue384/tree_surgeon.html

http://bewilderingstories.com/issue384/hide_djinn.html

http://bewilderingstories.com/issue384/showroom_cinema.html

Lovely time in Aldeburgh Suffolk

We stayed at the White Lion

and had dinner with one of my Writeword's Pals, Avis Hickman Gibb and her husband Mike.

Morpeth

I was disappointed to hear that my favourite gift's shop Su Heart is going to close in June. Shop rental costs on Bridge Street has defeated them. If we get another damned charity shop I'll spit in someone's eye! As if that weren't enough, the council has gone and put up parking charges to 60p/hour but to include the hour between 5 and 6 when a lot of working people drop into Morrison's or Mark's' Well they'll most probably go t0 ASDA instead where the parking is FREE. And the new arcade? Wye aye! I shop in Laura Ashley all the time, mun! Divvint ye?

Su is going to be making her jewelry to sell on-line though so when she sets up, I'll add her to my friends. Good luck Su!