Posted in Bits'n'Bobs on May 1st, 2009 1 Comment »
The springtime fields jumping out to meet you. Have you met you recently? They are dancing with you in colour and in light it’s so dazzling and it’s so bright. Have you danced lately? Brush aside the occasional rain bearing cloud inevitable an English summer “skin is water-proof”. The badger and the hedgehog the squirrel [...]
Posted in Bits'n'Bobs, Poetry/Lyrics, SocioPolitical, The Main Thread on Apr 27th, 2009 No Comments »
They found him in the bathroom, exit wound identifiable, 7.62mm, full metal jacket, muzzle velocity, 2,800 feet per second, blew the back of his head, clean out. The blood on the wall was… in the pattern of? well, possibly… Any symbol of the times which, the media could assign it, however stupidly… “If it bleeds, [...]
Posted in Bits'n'Bobs, England, Mini Rants on Feb 17th, 2009 No Comments »
==== AN OPEN LETTER ==== I am at a loss for words… Well I was, but I have subjected myself to intense pyschotherapy since receiving your letters beginning in 2008. Feeling somewhat repaired I now seem to have enough vocabulary restored to respond to your most recent correspondence. This is the second debarcle I have [...]
Posted in Bits'n'Bobs, Poetry/Lyrics on Feb 7th, 2009 1 Comment »
Yeah c’mon! belly-flop in, take a big mouthful, of those ghosts, which have been. Squiggle the surface, a tempting? a pretty fishing ‘fly’? see its reflection, of past, and have a good cry. Triple hooks, strong tropical fishing rig, a doubling of chance? for real insight, or un-truth, or another merry dance? Big weights, rough [...]
Posted in Bits'n'Bobs, Poetry/Lyrics on Feb 1st, 2009 No Comments »
Never e’nuff certainty, although, of course, ‘constant change’ comes to mind, oh, that cliche again… possibly more accurate… the constancy of history repeating? Repealing 2008, remembering 1928, revealing 2008… Ever feel like, you wanted to get off? The ever loud driving, the ‘party’, the bass-beat of greed… ‘get ahead’, ‘go ahead’, too empty a mantra… [...]
Posted in Bits'n'Bobs, Poetry/Lyrics on Jan 8th, 2009 No Comments »
Have you ever seen… A bear on a rocky Alaskan mountain side hunting moths? A glacier spreading its feet, through a Himalayan valley… from space? Have you ever looked? Will you look? Before you die? When will you die? How long will you live? Is your current delusion, your only illusion? Are you already dead? [...]
Posted in Bits'n'Bobs on Dec 24th, 2008 No Comments »
Another year, another partially cold day in Norfolk – a long way away from my desert roots in the South of Australia – a dry barren, and beautiful, landscape at this time of year. Summertime in South Australia is pretty special – the Galahs and Sulpher Crested cockatoos en-masse looking for water, creating one hell [...]
Posted in Bits'n'Bobs on Dec 7th, 2008 No Comments »
It was contrived but beautiful. The vista from left to right was of the tallest, greenest, trees you have ever seen. I wonder if they are deciduous? Summer time, of course, is no time to ask such questions. Because now with the sun full, and high overhead, all one could really see was an ocean [...]
Posted in Bits'n'Bobs on Nov 18th, 2008 1 Comment »
Talking is a little fraught really isn’t it? Personally I’d be happy to admit that I could ‘talk for England’, as they say… But I doubt this is a very positive personal trait and I’m fully aware it does little, to nothing, for developing ones listening skills. I’ll also admit I’ve never tested the alternative [...]
Posted in Bits'n'Bobs, Cultural, Video on Sep 29th, 2008 No Comments »
Great news story on BBC today – 12 year old mare who apparently had, for the last couple of years, been having a pint of John Smith’s and a packet of pickled onion crisps (only in the UK :P) with her owner in a Jarrow pub has been ‘banned’ – well the bar has just [...]