Watched again the Morecambe and Wise sketch with Andre Previn. This is a comment on the video: ‘One of the greatest sketches of all time. Humour doesn’t really cross the pond but bravo to Andre [more…]
There is a multitude of fine poems by ‘modern’ poets and it is my aim to introduce as many as is feasible in this series. However, we have to take into consideration the requirements of [more…]
Danny Kruger Starmer is right – this is a fork in the road. One way lies the politics of late-stage liberalism: international human rights, Net Zero and mass migration. The other way lies the politics [more…]
My two favourite poets are William Butler Yeats and Dylan Marlais Thomas. I have been to each of their graves to pay my respects and toured the house where D.T. was born, also the shed [more…]
(Some of this was from weeks ago) Christ on a bike!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Just received a letter from the surgery inviting me to have the Flu and Covid jabs! Extracts: ‘COVID-19 and flu are viruses that can [more…]
Grumpy Angler. Molesworth hey?; seventeen years in The Parachute Regiment might gainsay that conclusion and I left early, which was my decision. Mancunius. I did hear something about those Scottish Scamps and the transmogrifications which [more…]
This is the first in a series alternating with my musings; reflecting my enduring love of poetry and what it can bring us. I will jump about a bit as I recall poems I have [more…]
Two daughters duly came to visit last weekend (the third lives in Spain) and after a nice pub meal, a bit of a catch-up and a stroll around the marina in the sunshine I had [more…]
Waiting for MOT (passed) I was browsing my volume of the Dylan Thomas Notebook Poems 1930-1934. I came across this piece which I had never seen before. I admit it shook me; in 1934 he [more…]
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