Matthew Sylvester
scotty’s little soldiers
The Demon Knife – A poem by my eldest, aged 10.
After the adulation that she received for her last poem, my eldest seems to have got the bug and wrote this. Right now she’s very much ‘bang them out in a couple of minutes’ which, if they are all as good as this, is fine by me! It does have me thinking that maybe Alternative … Continue reading
Why charity so often starts at home
A few years ago, more than a few actually, probably around 1995, my father was diagnosed with Cardiomyopathy – basically his heart was wasn’t beating correctly and getting the blood to all the places it needed to be quickly enough. It isn’t a curable disease, but it’s one that can be lived with, with sufferers … Continue reading
Scotty’s Little Soldiers – A grown man tears up
For as long as I can remember, I have been interested in the military, war and weaponry. I grew up in the days when it was okay to give your children toy guns and send them off to do battle with the kids from the next street along. I was even given a paratrooper’s uniform … Continue reading
Matthew Sylvester 