Harry Nicholson's Blog: 1513fusion

.Volunteer Remembrance piece for Whitby Lit Fest 2025 At Gateshead, late nineteen-fourteen, he stood in line, best flat cap,  white silk scarf, and polished boots. He said, ‘I want to join the Durham Light Infantry’. In the book, they put … Continue reading →

Two years in the writing, but a stimulating journey even so. Book four of my seagoing memoirs is now on Amazon. I might have one more in me — we shall see what comes to be. The cover is from … Continue reading →

Moor Top After days of rain she’s sated, the acid dome, the brown bone-drinker.  She squelches and sucks at the boot, yet my footfalls crunch across the ling’s stark acres, and snap the black antlers that writhe where the moor … Continue reading →

The cuckoo is back on the moor edge. I rejoice at his return. Today, I’ll be driving up Eskdale to the Egton Bridge Writers Group. First thing – I’ll apologise because I’ve not done my homework – been too busy … Continue reading →

I’m cheered by this note from a reader of ‘Best of Days’ and ‘When Are You Going Back?’ It has the touch of poetry: “I have just finished your Vol1 and Vol 3 of your sailing days (Vol 2 is … Continue reading →

A new eye. Wonders! Yesterday I had my first cataract removed and the lens replaced with with an artificial (I’m having trouble typing this as I recover). The new lens shows me that I’ve been missing the shorter wavelenghts for … Continue reading →

Home on leave and wandering the Saturday shopping streets of British West Hartlepool in the 50s I would spy a fellow I knew. He’d often come out with: ‘Oh! Hello Harry, home from sea again? When are you going back?’ … Continue reading →

Free again: To celebrate the turning of the year, my little eBook anthology, ‘Green Linnet’, is free from today until 3rd January. Humorous and sober short stories of the sea and of Yorkshire, interleaved with verse. and on other Amazon … Continue reading →

The eBook of my anthology ‘Wandering About’ is free to download on Amazon, 15th to 20th November. Please help yourself.  This from a review of last year: Here is a poet with working-class origins who writes of his native North-East … Continue reading →