This period piece has its beginnings in the early 1960s, opens with a description of the motorbike/coffee bar culture then prevalent. From those motorbike days in that nameless town in southern England our narrator, the Chicken Farmer to be, takes his group of friends on through the next twenty plus years.

Giving instances from the ordinary lives happening around him the Chicken Farmer discourses on, not only Love and its many betrayals, but on most other aspects of life. Told from a young[ish] male perspective, it is yet generally sympathetic to the human condition both male and female.

Although the narrator largely remains in the one place not all that he relates happens in and around the one town, characters come and go, bringing their stories from near and far. Allowing the Chicken Farmer to have Thoughts on - as well as Love (and these are just a few of the chapter headings) - Flat Places, Resurrection, Hopeless Aspirations, Becoming a Cripple, Romantic Illusions, Incest, Suicide, Murder, Hunting, Friendship... and the possibility of Happy Endings.

Editor of The Journal (once 'of Contemporary Anglo-Scandinavian Poetry')and publisher of Original Plus books, I was born Blackpool 1946, have ended up living in a Welsh valley. Prior to picking up my state pension I almost made a living as a freelance writer/publisher/editor. My last day job was as an amusement arcade cashier, I have also been a psychiatric nurse, residential social worker, milkman, plumber, laboratory analyst, groundsman, sailor, computer operator, scaffolder, gardener, painter & decorator........ working at anything, in fact, which has paid the rent, enabled me to raise my three daughters and which hasn't got too much in the way of my writing. I now have several poetry collections and novels to my name.