Indescribable babble

Found a new house - result! How good is God? So good. Indescribable! Actually there is a song called that. Really like the song BUT it says that God is Indescribable and then goes on to try and describe Him. Anyway.....

Church meeting tonight - love any excuse to be in church. Just love Purley. Not saying that the entire meeting enthralled me but it's all good.

Really excited because my brother is coming to stay soon - yay! The ginger northerner will be here. He has lots of freckles - I once tried to count them all. Got bored. I treat him like an older brother because he is all growed up. He is two years and seven days younger than me. Dougal our dog likes him more than me because Spud walks him more. I just sit on the stairs and chat with him and if I do walk him, end up going on the swings and leave him outside the kids' play area gates. This poem is about Spud and I. It takes me back to living in Cockermouth. It reminds me of a time when I imagined that anything was possible.

In the garden

We dug for Australia,
me and my brother.
In the garden by the potatoes
growing
knowing
we'd get there one day.
Throwing
soil into the atmosphere.
Getting sweaty and dirty and tired.
Australia forgotten soon
as shovels hit stones
and the clouds began to weep.
We dug instead for lakes, dens, air raid shelters.

All ended the same,
each time the same:
our holes quickly filled with water,
running from the sky above
creating another blob of brown sludge.