Monday, 29 August 2022

News flash! Eyeless in Emmaus.

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LATEST! There have been conflicting reports from followers of the condemned man, who have informed the public that they are no longer searc...
Tuesday, 16 August 2022

“More Out-takes from Ol’ Ameriky” (The Uncollected Songbook Part 1.) There’s a train acomin’

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                      There’s a train acomin’                                               a roarin’ down the track                       D...
Monday, 15 August 2022

Official! The Needlessness of Education for a Gentleman.

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The painter’s daughter sat by the young Lord Braidwood, who thought her very pretty girl, and soon found out that she was a very clever one,...
Sunday, 20 March 2022

Skylon: British Maypole for a Brave New World?

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I haven’t thought about the Skylon for decades. That is until a picture postcard depicting the Sussex village of my infancy fell from a sta...
Saturday, 11 December 2021

My Lady Midday

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                  Bathwater drawn, her hair in disarray,                   glass slipper worn, she sighs with no reproach.                  ...
Sunday, 28 November 2021

Street Cry

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                    The tree yet fettered though irons break free                     grows, cage embedded in the living bark.              ...
Wednesday, 8 September 2021

Wm Blake takes a compass to credulity

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(In Praise of William Blake   despite the odd detractor.)     For he’s a jolly good fellow   and so say all of us which Nobodaddy can deny. ...