Convenience is the password when ordering stuff online

Not least when various factors seem to create the word "malign"..

And night owls discover drawbacks (the downside if you will)

Of going to bed in the early hours but unsure when the trill

Of the door bell will be interrupting sleep's enfolding embrace

With its imperious demands to answer before there is no trace

Of the consta...

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How glad I am to have known the joy

Of knowing the England I knew as a boy.

Of youthful freedom unconfined

That saw stretched limb and questing mind

Down lanes and byways beckoning me

To be part of all I could hear and see;

That was so alive following so much death,

As a land and its people drew new breath;

With those who took their part in war

Torn by relief and guilt t...

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On British Royalty and American women, your indulgence now I beg;

Edward the Seventh couldn't wed Lily Langtry yet Harry can marry his Meg.

In terms of royal importance, it's worth remembering

We are losing an irrelevant ginger whinger, when once we lost a KING!

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Back in those old Victorian days

Of draped piano legs and corset stays,

HRH Prince Eddy was reported to meet

Post boys for pleasure in Cleveland Street

And very quickly disappeared abroad

To escape judgement for conduct untoward

And ensure the public was unsuspecting

Of revelations that would see them disaffecting

The Institution that is British Royalty 

Demanding above ...

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As I look forward to this year through time's present prism

I take comfort in my personal preference for optimism!

Shrugging off the pessimist's perennial curse

That things will turn from better to worse!

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