The Mike Robbins blog

The next UK government will inherit a mess, but not as bad as Clement Attlee did in 1945. Yet the Attlee government not only coped. It made ...

A dislocation... “We’ll go to Nidden for the summer,” my wife told me. “You can write your paper there. We can swim in the Baltic and you ca...

A short story Grandpa’s 90. He doesn’t move much anymore. He sits in his dressing-gown by the window and looks out on the street. He used to...

The theme for the writing group this time was "Belonging". The others wrote some rather nice poems. I'm a lousy poet so I wrot...

I haven't posted fiction on this blog; I haven’t written many short pieces that would be suitable. But I have just completed a short sto...