{"id":4248,"date":"2024-02-27T18:09:47","date_gmt":"2024-02-27T18:09:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wayleavepress.co.uk\/?page_id=4248"},"modified":"2026-09-25T16:49:45","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T15:49:45","slug":"scowcroft-moon-garden-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.wayleavepress.co.uk\/?page_id=4248","title":{"rendered":"Small and Necessary Lives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Ron Scowcroft<br \/>\nISBN 978-1-8383378-7-2<br \/>\nPrice \u00a36<\/p>\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\"><div class=\"wpsc_product\"><div class=\"wp_cart_button_wrapper\"><form method=\"post\" class=\"wp-cart-button-form\" action=\"\" style=\"display:inline\" ><input type=\"hidden\" id=\"_wpnonce\" name=\"_wpnonce\" value=\"3378659632\" \/><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"_wp_http_referer\" value=\"\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fpages%2F4248\" \/><input type=\"submit\" class=\"wspsc_add_cart_submit\" name=\"wspsc_add_cart_submit\" value=\"Add to Cart\" \/><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"wspsc_product\" value=\"Small and Necessary Lives\" \/><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"price\" value=\"6.00\" \/><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"shipping\" value=\"0\" \/><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"addcart\" value=\"1\" \/><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"cartLink\" value=\"https:\/\/www.wayleavepress.co.uk\" \/><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"product_tmp\" value=\"Small and Necessary Lives\" \/><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"product_tmp_two\" value=\"Small and Necessary Lives\" \/><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"item_number\" value=\"\" \/><div class=\"wpsc_add_cart_response_div\"><\/div><\/form><\/div><\/div><\/pre>\n<p>or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wayleavepress.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/order-form.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Order by post<\/strong> <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ron Scowcroft brings into focus an overlooked world of small and necessary lives. Whether rumoured, imagined or real, they command attention with a quiet and meticulous voice. The last wolf in England, a builder\u2019s brief dance, a magical night of star-gazing, all provide opportunities to reflect on the endurance of passing moments.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Caf\u00e9 Lubin, Morecambe<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>She\u2019s am-dram, the lady with<br \/>\nMr Whippy hair,<br \/>\nsinging over scrambled eggs<br \/>\noverbuttering the toast<br \/>\nabsent mindedly<br \/>\nrehearsing lines as she<br \/>\nfroths your milky coffee,<\/p>\n<p>no flat whites here,<br \/>\nurbane fashion ceased<br \/>\nwhen, in a jostle fonts,<br \/>\nthe place was named.<\/p>\n<p>July, it\u2019s strawberry halves,<br \/>\nspoonful affections<br \/>\nsweet and red<br \/>\nas the Valentine hearts<br \/>\nshe forgot to remove from<br \/>\nFebruary windows,<br \/>\ncaster sugar spilt<br \/>\nlike frost over linoleum table tops,<\/p>\n<p>and there, amongst the cockle shells<br \/>\nand sky-blue boats,<br \/>\nforever Christmas cards<br \/>\nBlu Tack snow and celebration<br \/>\nto stucco walls of summer.<\/p>\n<p>And so they come,<br \/>\npennies saved,<br \/>\nthe disparate and vernacular,<br \/>\nto ice cream sundaes, weekday broth,<br \/>\nto buy their colourised postcards<br \/>\nof the pier that disappeared,<br \/>\n<em>it only rained at night<\/em><br \/>\nsomeone always writes.<\/p>\n<p>Seasons to savour:<br \/>\nVictoria sipping soup,<br \/>\nnotebook by her side,<br \/>\nand Eric, glasses askew,<br \/>\ndancing sand and sunshine<br \/>\nthrough the ever open door.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a title=\"Ron Scowcroft\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wayleavepress.co.uk\/?page_id=58\">More about Ron Scowcroft<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ron Scowcroft ISBN 978-1-8383378-7-2 Price \u00a36 or Order by post Ron Scowcroft brings into focus an overlooked world of small and necessary lives. 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