Love this (unread) comment by RICK: ‘The health benefit is that after a sweaty training session I feel CLEAN. If that’s a drain on the resources that are insufficient because of a growing population of [more…]
Fucking hell. I have just watched George Galloway’s latest speech. I have always liked his oratory and this surpasses anything I have heard in years. I love the man. And I believe he speaks for [more…]
Thank you fellow Puffins for many a chortle lately. There have been some splendiferous insults directed at various members of our ‘soi-disant ‘ elite, really cheers me up. All very inventive!! Whenever I think of [more…]
A country child I roamed around from an early age, it was safe then, where these stone drums were found, I knew about them from my mother who had lived very close by and ancient [more…]
I do not look back in anger. Rather I look at what I have (and have not) accomplished. I have four children; the eldest is a successful software engineer though I have not seen him [more…]
‘ But at my back I always hear, Time’s winged Chariot hurrying near …’ Andrew Marvell ‘What is this life if full of care, We have no time to stand and stare……’ William Henry Davies [more…]
Can you guess the leader each of these poems refers to…? Sir A. Tool I’m not a wealthy toolmaker I’m a wealthy toolmaker’s son. He made A Tool, not much cop That the UK he [more…]
I never did quite discover Miss Pronter’s exact connection with a once-well-known – not to say notorious – Girls’ Boarding School in Berkshire, but she claimed that the then-Chaplain, having delivered this, left the script [more…]
How do you like your Poetry? Richly allusive, with detectable rhythm, a certain musicality about it? Or do you prefer a stripped-down, unembellished terseness-to-the-point-of-inarticulacy, a Tacitean, telegraphic brevity? Whichever, preference is yours, would you consider [more…]
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