Salford Quays, 14th July 2018
a tale of the first time in the canal…from one of the goslings….Interpreted by Inky 🙂
It’s a bit hard stepping out
from the little nursery pool
to the great big vast waterway
but at least my family are nearby
mum and dad watching proudly on
no water wings required
chasing my brothers and sisters about the water
just flap my feathered feet and watch me go….
#spiders #web #house
22nd June 2018
an acrostic from inkdrop
from a prompt from the imaginarium
sometimes I wonder why they’re there
popping up from out of the garden and setting up in the kitchen
i get the idea, these six legged fellows don’t like the cold…
desperate, they’ll weave their webs in hidden spaces, like
every cubby hole or stair cupboard
Resident, until cleared out with a head of a brush
Salford 19th June 2018
#life #travel #sunrise #breakfast #morning
I woke up early this morning, the local wildlife were up with the sun. I’m unaware of what they were discussing….probably breakfast, or maybe football ⚽️ . If anybody knows what rooks , blackbirds, song thrushes, and pigeons talk about over breakfast…please let me know
I spotted two aircraft travelling over the skies of Salford this morning. Don’t know where they were going, but I’m sure it was some place nice and hot. Sun is slowly making its way above the horizon in the east, soon it will be bright and sunny
The soft rolling traffic from the early morning Trafford road makes a somewhat pleasant accompaniment to the sound of the ticking clock. But in what’s now known as a twenty four hour society/world , there’s always deliveries to be made, early morning jobs to get to and work to be done
There’s a break in the quiet rumble of the traffic, as a Motorcycle rider mistakes one of the carriageways for a stretch of the Isle of Man TT race course. It’s awoken the pigeons kipping in the eaves of the nearby apartment block.
Another trail of white crosses the Salford skies as the rumble of early morning traffic continues. The broadcasters will be preparing the news items for delivery about now, whilst out on the waterfront, as the deliveries come in and out of the factories of Trafford park, and noise from The Trafford road begins to grow, feathered residents of the nearby basins are flexing their webbed feet , attending to cygnets and goslings all and pondering the really important issues of the day,
What’s for breakfast ?
Salford, 27th April 2018
They say he’s a mongrel
a lower class
not to the standard of the pedigrees
But this cur has much more to offer
than those pedigree chums in the kennels
look at that swagger – look at the smile
loyalty to his owner that sticks out a mile
And while pedigrees are pampered
he’s wagging his tail – in garden wi a stick
chasing down chew toys
compared to pedigrees – he’s quick!
Salford 17th March 2018
Another day goes by
Another crease forms on the face
A new laughter line joins by the eye
Age they say is a concept
You can be young – even after fifty,
Experts say (at the age of thirty)
I smile at that assertion
as i look at next doors pug – wrinkly and ruffled
Old age hasn’t bothered him – he still chases around the garden
capable of anything, the dockside cat.
running the roost over the old area of nine dock
eager to grab the pickings, that hide from
an expectant audience, more likely to see actors
than a furry tailed family, resident by the basin
usual routines the order of the day, watching the drains lining the
road, whilst the humans don’t really
expect to see a furry tailed visitor, mr puddytat keeps watch
