Mother

I wrote this for my mum on her 80th birthday so it belongs to her. That said I’m sure she won’t mind. My mum wrote a book about her childhood so that her grand children would realise how different life was when she was young. I found the whole process of editing the book and […]

Ode de Toilet(te)

Copyright Sue Nicholls. Just ask and link back if you want to use it This poem is on the wall in our loo to beseech people not to chuck any old rubbish into our macerator. We didn’t want a macerator one bit, But we needed something to process our ?squit?, Which needed to be, shall […]

Hot Tottie

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My Husband says I’m hot in bed, Well he’s hot too. With the sheets thrown off, our naked bodies writhe and buck in the gloomy, curtained air. We’ve been married for 30 years but at night still we steam, Not bad for an old pair. His hand reaches for mine, ‘Get away!’ say I, you’re […]