Song of the Ofsted Inspectors
No point in crying, you know why we’re here.
Saw the league tables, smelled blood, descended.
You’re on our list; we can wreck your career.
Don’t try to fool us; we’ve been heads, too.
Educating the underclass? A thankless task.
We got out in time, saw which way the wind blew.
Up all night, checking figures? No matter.
We make facts fit, the one thing we’re good at.
...Saturday 18th March 2023 9:43 am
Black gold
Their bungalow seemed
to grow out of the ground.
The garden was big enough
to lose himself in.
While grandchildren marched
importantly in and out of sheds,
Dad took me on a tour of his empire
that terminated at the compost bins.
Ran leaf mould through his fingers,
exulting at what he’d created,
the miracle of degradation,
black gold. It’s life that matter...
Sunday 12th March 2023 9:42 am
No, Minister! or Whatever happened to the BBC?
The Goons, Bill and Ben,
Hancock’s Half-Hour,
Steptoe & Son,
That Was The Week That Was,
Doctor Who, Blue Peter,
Play For Today, Match of the Day,
Till Death Do Us Part,
Monty Python, Dad’s Army,
Whatever Happened
To The Likely Lads,
Fawlty Towers,
Not The Nine O’Clock News,
Boys From the Black Stuff,
Auf Wiedersehen, Pet,
Yes, Minister, Blackadder,
Det...
Friday 10th March 2023 5:53 pm
The viaduct
Why was it built?
The line had to take
a one hundred and eighty
degree turn to evade
the Duke of Northumberland’s
estate. The price:
a tunnel, and a viaduct
crossing the Edlingham Burn.
Blast those shooting parties!
No matter: the navvies
set to work. The curve adds
to its Grade II listed beauty.
It appears much shorter
than from below
and closed...
Saturday 11th February 2023 4:53 pm
The Man Who Saved A World
Listening to The Man Who Sold The World
on the Bob Harris show at your Nana’s
when you should have been revising.
The traffic from the Kingston by-pass
roared by her New Malden terrace.
Harris played it again and again.
Oh! You Pretty Things on the radio
in the spring sunshine on the
back porch. Or was it Changes?
What a euphoric song that was.
Catching the Route...
Monday 16th January 2023 10:30 pm
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