Author Archives: Clive La Pensée

Who watches linear TV? Who cares about the BBC?


We are being manipulated as never before, by unscrupulous politicians and lobbyists. Can we fight back?
Yes!
Let them destroy their own propaganda media.

I couldn’t afford a therapist so I watched Frasier.


(Cristela Alonzo) I couldn’t afford a therapist so I started writing about my man hang-ups – by imagining I am woman. It works. Put Clive La Pensée – into Amazon. Look for Goddesses for some free pages. There was a trip I had been promising myself – to the Südgelände. I knew that once theContinue reading “I couldn’t afford a therapist so I watched Frasier.”

Know Someone Who Loves Beer? – Brew a Perfect Christmas Present


For the unique Christmas present, brew them a unique beer. Fully revised, no more soggy pages and a fraction of the price of the old paper version from 1990.

Unsettling and sexy, in equal measure. Your hidden desires, too?


How to plan a seduction. One can take a leaf from nature’s handbook and let it all hang out. Picture by Kerstin Winters – Flickr.com Connie Grimshaw was seduced into a life of sexual liberation by two ill-advised sherries at lunchtime. I posted the first half of Chapter 1, in which Connie, offered enticements forContinue reading “Unsettling and sexy, in equal measure. Your hidden desires, too?”

Coming of age in modern Downton Abbey


The full story is available via Amazon, with all the twists, turns, love, mendacity, betrayal and sin and error, every romantic thriller should encompass.
Someone Tell Me What Is Going On – Millie Backhouse shouts as her life descends into confusion.
She sorts it out, of course.

Wetwang, Wet Wang, Museums and Unfulfilled Promises


As the country lurches from Covid to Brexit woes, what do our two top leaders think – in wax?

Goddesses – Riposte to 50 Shades.


Image by Grazia – flickr.com Excerpt from 49 ½ Shades of Charcoal – Get free pages here. Chapter 1 – The Flirt ‘Connie! You look like you have seen a ghost!’ ‘A ghost would be fine, Dee. I could put it down to too much cheese or a raunchy kipper.’ My PA Dee was wideContinue reading “Goddesses – Riposte to 50 Shades.”

Refracting a Haiku


Medieval glass makers created the spectrum effect. Rainbows are caused by water droplets altering the speed of colours in white light by different amounts. This separates them and produces a spectrum of supposedly, seven colours – red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet. And there is the rub. Most people can’t discern all seven, becauseContinue reading “Refracting a Haiku”

Taking a Haiku chance.


It’s about breaking boundaries. The sculpture is in the Bose Park in Berlin, so I thought, do your Haiku in German! Inner me asks, ‘What is the problem?’ Outer me replies, ‘If I make a mistake, it will be out there – for all to see, or read.’ Inner me insists, ‘People make mistakes allContinue reading “Taking a Haiku chance.”