Food for thought

What are your family’s top 3 favourite meals?

This is an interesting question, and as there’s only three of us in our household, I feel that it’s only fair (and democratic) that we each choose one of the meals.

Mine has to be a home-made (gluten free) lasagne with salad and chips (fries). I’ve always loved it, since I can remember. There’s no nostalgic reason behind it, I just love it. (Side note: it’s the one dish where you can put one on top of another, and you still only have one lasagne).

Mrs Bob. Her favourite is home made cottage pie. That’s the British kind… made with minced beef, not lamb, as that would be shepherds pie. She makes hers with a slight twist of a tomatoey type. With cabbage, carrots and runner beans.

Noodles. No question, hers is FEEEESH. Frozen white fish fillet. She has one microwaved and cooled every morning without fail. And she knows the word Fish too….

What are your favourites?

Father of Modern Physics

If you could meet a historical figure, who would it be and why?

There’s so many figures from history I’d love to meet. So narrowing it down to just one person is particularly hard. That being said, I think I would have to go with Albert Einstein

The reason I have chosen him is that as someone who’s worked in science roles and has a love of quantum mechanics or theoretical physics. I’d love to just sit and discuss with him, the fact that his work has influenced so many lives and technological developments such as GPS, or his Nobel prize for photoelectric effect in 1921.

October

What’s your favorite month of the year? Why?

I love October as it’s the best of the Wiccan Sabbats or holidays.

Yes I’m talking about Samhain or Halloween.

It’s the one holiday where the veil between living and dead is thinest and we remember those loved ones we’ve lost.

It’s also a great time to dress up and have a little fun before the nights really draw in and the cold winter days and nights set it.

Excerpt from “The Night the Dead Walk”

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They told you Halloween was candy and costumes
cartoon witches, plastic masks, porch lights.
They lied.
This is Samhain, the true night.

Dark poets “Track 13”

This year, The Dark Poets Club had a new and interesting competition. The rules are simple… impress the judges with a dark poem, using fifty words or less.

This was a serious challenge for me as I’m usually quite loquacious in my pieces! I had to take a scalpel out and cut the words to its bare bones.

I trimmed and trimmed until I had a scribble called “Track 13”. It’s not for th faint-hearted, so please keep this in mind.

TRIGGER WARNING: Suicide


Track 13

My brain’s a broken record,

Skipping on the same cracked groove.

Just jump”, it whispers, “what’s left to prove?”

The rope, a promise. The chair, a stage.

One last breath before turning life’s final page.

A silent film fading to black.

No rewind.

No coming back.

(c) Bob Christian2025

Whispers of The Veil

(A Samhain Invocation)

The veil thins like torn silk,

Frayed at the edges where shadows crawl,

Night spills its ink across the sky,

And for once, just this once,

We are not afraid of the dark.


The air crackles with an ancient breath,

Whispers from the underworld rise like smoke,

Curling through the cracks in the ground.

It is the night when the dead wear their names again,

When skulls sing songs of forgotten fire.


We gather under the black eye of the moon.

Our hands hold more than candles,

More than just wishes…

We hold the weight of our ancestors;

The quiet knowing of those who’ve crossed the line

Between flesh and spirit.


They walk with us now;

Feel them, as the wheel spins faster. 


A circle, drawn not in chalk but in salt,

In blood, in sweat, in the body of the Earth.

Samhain.  

The turning. The cutting.

The breaking open of the time between times.


I reach out with my soul; my tongue; my fingers.

This is not a feast;

Not a dance for the living.

This is an invocation;

A celebration of endings and beginnings.


The magick is in the silence.

The waiting.

The listening for the footsteps that have long faded.

Yet we still hear them, don’t we?

In the crunching of the leaves; the rustle of the wind. 


Tonight, we are the bridge.

The living tether between two worlds.

The words we whisper are not for the living;

They are for the dead.

And the dead are listening. 

(C)BobChristian