• My Shadow

    Gather my shadow, hold him in my palm, for where we’re off, know not of calm. Hidden in my hold so tight, We venture forth through damaged night. I see the man I wish to be, Standing tall amongst the trees. Leaning down he takes my wrist, And frees my shadow from my fist. Springing…

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  • Mama A

    Chimps don’t want to speak English, we’d end up giving them jobs. Mina pregnant. On her first appointment for the shall I sharnt I clinic there was a magazine called ‘Mama Academy’ Roasted sugar nuts are the tits. The only way I can get my hands on a whole bunch would be to have the…

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  • Bab on da bus

    The baby on board stickers you see in cars aren’t to have you behave and not honk a sleeping child, they’re for paramedics knowing which vehicle to give attention to first in an accident. Which is kind of morbid. 2 babies on plane, don’t think you have to pay. They’re likely classified as hand luggage.…

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  • Carluccios Man

    Meeting Joe or coffee on a wim. Sat down, watched a man sit outside the window, unfold a napkin over his leg, and eat the leftovers from four plates. The second he was sat and had shovelled all the onto one plate, he relaxed. Lay back and ate as if the food was just laid…

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  • funny stuff

    A man is walking through the woods when he finds a suitcase. Curled up under the suitcase are a fox and four cubs. He immediately calls animal control to report what he found.  “Oh no that’s terrible,” says the animal control worker, “are they moving?”  “I dunno,” says the man, “but I guess that would…

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  • silly

    Rufus whines like a busker. Drops his hat to the ground, holds up in a corner of the house and let’s out a shallow high pitch tune, not unlike a penny whist. Not out here for money, not looking for love, but that half a tandoori chicken you’ve left on your plate from the night…

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  • Life as a Son of Iain

    Radio alarm clicks on Good morning children of Low. It’s 6am, the sun is shinning bright with a steady wind speed of 2mph. Today we’ll see highs of 12 and lows of 10. Before we continue with morning announcements would the quick response team please report to the kitchen and tend to a high pressure…

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  • roof

    The house is crowded. Not that there are many occupants but this building is made for 3 and there are 4. As the forth, I sleep on the living room floor whilst the others occupy the beds upstairs. I light the fire and make my bed out of sofa cushions and blankets I find lying…

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  • amsterdam w/ brothers

    Francis and his oldest brother celebrate at the success of Joseph’s new found skill for international drug smuggling whilst Matthew blows cigarette smoke into the bathroom extractor.

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  • because why?

    So there’s more than one Matthew Low out there. I’m hands down the coolest but a close second is Matthew Low Consultant Physiotherapist with Matthew Low Bluebell Capital Partners coming in third. That lad’s kinda letting us down with boring job and all but we move. Now, the Matthew Low that I spend most of my time thinking about…

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