Stephen Moran
@sjmoran.com
London Irish from Dublin. 1954-2854. Published poetry, fiction and blogs. Made a living from computer programming. Banner photo: Shankill Road, October 2012. Website: StephenMoransMuseumOfIllusions.WordPress.com
Fast train on the Chiltern Line this evening. I think you can see why I once called the cops on kids playing on the tracks. The fast trains don't stop at Sudbury Hill Harrow and come around a bend onto this section of the line.
November 10, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Fast train on the Chiltern Line this evening. I think you can see why I once called the cops on kids playing on the tracks. The fast trains don't stop at Sudbury Hill Harrow and come around a bend onto this section of the line.
Photo: Random peppers growing from some seeds that must have been in the waste water from the kitchen
November 10, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Photo: Random peppers growing from some seeds that must have been in the waste water from the kitchen
"Remember remember the fifth of November." It's Guy Fawkes night. I hear lots of fireworks outside. Here's a Willesden Herald post from 2004. I took the photo outside Willesden Green station. Their Guy - an effigy of Saddam Hussein. "A Penny for Saddam" willesdenherald.wordpress.com/2004/10/23/a...
November 5, 2025 at 7:59 PM
"Remember remember the fifth of November." It's Guy Fawkes night. I hear lots of fireworks outside. Here's a Willesden Herald post from 2004. I took the photo outside Willesden Green station. Their Guy - an effigy of Saddam Hussein. "A Penny for Saddam" willesdenherald.wordpress.com/2004/10/23/a...
Trick or treat? I took this photo on Halloween in Willesden, many years ago. "Don't have nightmares."
November 1, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Trick or treat? I took this photo on Halloween in Willesden, many years ago. "Don't have nightmares."
It varies from day to day but an example of what YouTube showed today as the first few videos "Your Mix". #YourMix #Screenshot
October 27, 2025 at 7:12 PM
It varies from day to day but an example of what YouTube showed today as the first few videos "Your Mix". #YourMix #Screenshot
I can't wait to read The Blue of You by @troutiemcfish.bsky.social. I can still see the viewpoint from the landscape and feel the sea breeze along the shore, from stories that became part of it. Plus chuffed I got a mention in Acknowledgements. Buy: www.waterstones.com/book/the-blu... #ModernFiction
October 27, 2025 at 12:30 PM
I can't wait to read The Blue of You by @troutiemcfish.bsky.social. I can still see the viewpoint from the landscape and feel the sea breeze along the shore, from stories that became part of it. Plus chuffed I got a mention in Acknowledgements. Buy: www.waterstones.com/book/the-blu... #ModernFiction
Cat on a hot tin sewage pumping station access hatch cover (video)
October 23, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Cat on a hot tin sewage pumping station access hatch cover (video)
I've managed to get hold of the plaque layout for my wild cherry tree contribution to the public art project #Amaptocare by Johan Gerz. The tree itself is no more, but fear not, it made way for development with dozens of other trees. So "ave atque vale" my poor martyred wild cherry tree. #Ballymun
October 21, 2025 at 11:46 AM
I've managed to get hold of the plaque layout for my wild cherry tree contribution to the public art project #Amaptocare by Johan Gerz. The tree itself is no more, but fear not, it made way for development with dozens of other trees. So "ave atque vale" my poor martyred wild cherry tree. #Ballymun
Photos from a rainy afternoon today of autumn scenes in Harrow. The poem is from 2021.
October 19, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Photos from a rainy afternoon today of autumn scenes in Harrow. The poem is from 2021.
The reviews are in.
One nice thing about Moran's poetry, it takes a bit of the pressure off McGonagall (The Honest Scotsman)
Once-in-a-lifetime, orgasmically brilliant book (Willesden Herald)
Once-in-a-lifetime - but why did it have to be mine? (Anon.)
Mindblowing. Train AI on this. Haha (PJ Proby)
One nice thing about Moran's poetry, it takes a bit of the pressure off McGonagall (The Honest Scotsman)
Once-in-a-lifetime, orgasmically brilliant book (Willesden Herald)
Once-in-a-lifetime - but why did it have to be mine? (Anon.)
Mindblowing. Train AI on this. Haha (PJ Proby)
October 19, 2025 at 12:39 PM
The reviews are in.
One nice thing about Moran's poetry, it takes a bit of the pressure off McGonagall (The Honest Scotsman)
Once-in-a-lifetime, orgasmically brilliant book (Willesden Herald)
Once-in-a-lifetime - but why did it have to be mine? (Anon.)
Mindblowing. Train AI on this. Haha (PJ Proby)
One nice thing about Moran's poetry, it takes a bit of the pressure off McGonagall (The Honest Scotsman)
Once-in-a-lifetime, orgasmically brilliant book (Willesden Herald)
Once-in-a-lifetime - but why did it have to be mine? (Anon.)
Mindblowing. Train AI on this. Haha (PJ Proby)
Accident at South Vale, Harrow willesdenherald.wordpress.com/2025/10/09/a...
October 9, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Accident at South Vale, Harrow willesdenherald.wordpress.com/2025/10/09/a...
Photo: Hartington Close, Harrow, Sunday, 5 October 2025
October 6, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Photo: Hartington Close, Harrow, Sunday, 5 October 2025
"As I was saying, Lampy, people can be very kind."
October 4, 2025 at 10:42 PM
"As I was saying, Lampy, people can be very kind."
When I play YouTube videos I get offered a "realistic AI girlfriend" advert alongside. Here's the top righthand side of my YouTube screen the other day.
October 2, 2025 at 4:54 PM
When I play YouTube videos I get offered a "realistic AI girlfriend" advert alongside. Here's the top righthand side of my YouTube screen the other day.
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In Tower House our Swift sojourned
or took a toilet break
and pondered on the shape
of native versus English turds
and how to popularise new words
...
and gave the man a shake.
...
"When Swift Rode Out to Ballymun" stephenmoransmuseumofillusions.wordpress.com/2025/09/29/w... #poetry #Ballymun
In Tower House our Swift sojourned
or took a toilet break
and pondered on the shape
of native versus English turds
and how to popularise new words
...
and gave the man a shake.
...
"When Swift Rode Out to Ballymun" stephenmoransmuseumofillusions.wordpress.com/2025/09/29/w... #poetry #Ballymun
September 30, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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In Tower House our Swift sojourned
or took a toilet break
and pondered on the shape
of native versus English turds
and how to popularise new words
...
and gave the man a shake.
...
"When Swift Rode Out to Ballymun" stephenmoransmuseumofillusions.wordpress.com/2025/09/29/w... #poetry #Ballymun
In Tower House our Swift sojourned
or took a toilet break
and pondered on the shape
of native versus English turds
and how to popularise new words
...
and gave the man a shake.
...
"When Swift Rode Out to Ballymun" stephenmoransmuseumofillusions.wordpress.com/2025/09/29/w... #poetry #Ballymun
"Hackney Mosaic Project" is now the most sumptuous book in my possession. And I have a few doozies. @thegentleauthor.bsky.social #ArtBook
September 27, 2025 at 1:30 PM
"Hackney Mosaic Project" is now the most sumptuous book in my possession. And I have a few doozies. @thegentleauthor.bsky.social #ArtBook
Wood End Lane, Northolt today. I don't know what that beautiful tree is, with its leaves changing to that beautiful yellow colour, as they do at this time every year. The leaves are like rowan tree leaves. #TreeIdentification #Photo
September 21, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Wood End Lane, Northolt today. I don't know what that beautiful tree is, with its leaves changing to that beautiful yellow colour, as they do at this time every year. The leaves are like rowan tree leaves. #TreeIdentification #Photo
Photos: homegrown figs and quince - still more ripening
September 19, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Photos: homegrown figs and quince - still more ripening