Words by A Wensley

 Golden Years 💛 💛  1974: The year of Red Rum And Abba’s Waterloo.  And also, more importantly,  The year that Mum and Dad Got married.  50 years ago, on the 15th of April,  Mum walked elegantly up the path  to Winsford Church in her scalloped-sleeved white dress,  Arm in arm with her Father Henry To be wed,  with her bridesmaids, two of Dad's sisters,  Pat and Lucy,  looking the height of fashion in their polyester turquoise and yellow ruched-sleeved dresses... ...And Dad, likewise,  Seventies-swaggered up the same path in his burgundy flared suit and sideburns  with his best man Gerald.  Since then they've walked their path together,  as happy now as they were back then,  if not more so.  It's been a walk that's taken them Through Exmoor’s combes and valleys; The rocks of Lynmouth and Tarr Steps Bridging their love of the great outdoors.  They've walked through fields of toil,  Dad ploughing his way through life,  Bringing Spring lambs into the world And bringing

  Our new Quantock Poetry Group website is now live!  quantockpoetrytrail.uk  This new website contains everything you need to know to access our new poetry trail app and soundscape walks plus has a dedicated page for each poet's poetry.  You will find all my contributions to this project here.   A broadsheet of a selection of our poems has also been produced and is now available via Brendon Books, Taunton, Somerset Libraries (Taunton/Nether Stowey/Watchet) and some of our local churches and village halls throughout the Quantock Hills (East Quantoxhead, Kilve, Holford) - to name but a few!