Books of Poems by
An Old Codger
SECOND EDITION
A new, extended, second edition of POEMS BY AN OLD CODGER is now available in a five-book series of rhyming poetry at Amazon Books and Amazon Kindle.
The author offers a personal account of the social history of the 20th Century.
COVID -19 LOCKDOWN SPECIAL
A unique personal account of lockdown in twenty-two rhyming poems linked to the government’s COVID-19 announcements each year.
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Born in the late 1930’s, he grew up in a Welsh mining community during World War Two, writes of family mining tragedies, military service, life in the post-war 50’s and 60’s, the Beatles era, and the Cold War.
The series also includes poems on the author’s observations on modern life and COVID-19 lockdown.
The Old Codger
Neil Davies
Extract from the FOREWORD to BOOK ONE.
“As I move through my four score years, I guess that my compatriots and I owe our children, our grandchildren and our great grandchildren a huge apology for allowing our world to become not as we found it when we came into this life.
We have poisoned the land, the seas, and the air. In so many ways we have reached for the stars whilst killing off our own star….”
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Neil has been married to his wife Joy for over sixty years and they have four children, ten grandchildren and three great grandchildren.
A Chartered Engineer with a M. Sc. in Applied Psychology, Neil holds the rank of Squadron Leader, serving as an Education Officer in the Royal Air Force for 16 years. During his service career he was awarded the military symbol ‘d.f’ on completion of a Defence Fellowship at UWIST, Cardiff. He later held senior positions in both HE and FE.
From the age of 17, Neil was organist and choirmaster for over 30 years, wherever he resided, and for many years enjoyed male voice choral singing.
For further information please go to the author’s email:-
[email protected] or his Instagram page:- thomasdavies82
Recent musings from An Old Codger
ELECTRIC CARS
I have become rather anxious by the Government’s news that we will all have to drive electric vehicles very soon. I fear that there will be fast, silent killers on all our roads and lanes. I am fortunate to own and drive a second-hand hybrid car which, on the...
THE FUTURE FOR WORKING MAN
In the 1980’s, I visited a small factory on the Wirral producing black plastic sacks. Granules in, rolls of sacks out. Just two men managed the whole plant. Automated manufacturing and automated process engineering was, even then, having a devastating effect on...
OBSERVATIONS ON MODERN LIFE
We, who entered childhood in the late 1930’s, received a healthy, controlled diet, growing up in clean streets enjoying simple homemade pleasures. Today, we eat more than our stomachs can digest and buy all our pleasures and then throw them away. We are travelling...
MY BOOK OF POEMS THANKS TO COVID-19
In early 2019, I was referred to my local hospital for an operation, which eventually took place at the beginning of 2020. I spent most of that year taking things easy at home. No sooner was I back fit and well, when COVID-19 came along, and I was ‘confined to barracks’ yet again.