So very good Clare. I revisited my Nan's house a few years and encountered the same as you did. It was sad indeed but the memories came flooding back.
Thanks
Keith
Comment is about Our Old House. (blog)
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So very good Clare. I revisited my Nan's house a few years and encountered the same as you did. It was sad indeed but the memories came flooding back.
Thanks
Keith
Comment is about Our Old House. (blog)
Original item by Clare
So very true Clare- and JC.
a house is not a home.
What horrors are those sanitised characterless properties on daytime TV and the rest- worth at least half a million or so, with about as much charm as a butcher's fridge.💗
Comment is about Our Old House. (blog)
Original item by Clare
Thank you all for your comments and likes.
John C...as with alcoholics- so with Brexitholics-"there are none so blind as those who will not see!"
I could give you a raft of links about Brexiteers who bitterly regret their decision.
Here's just three.... who's content will obviously not make it onto the BBC news - complicit as they were in unquestioningly propagating the Brexit Bullshit.
* 'Complete disaster' and 'total lies': Tory billionaire lambasts effects of Brexit – audio https://youtu.be/GtxD6PDq6oM
https://youtu.be/MO8ijRptsII
https://youtu.be/sXv5Ta7qccU
Comment is about Per Ardua ad Astra (now with audio) (blog)
Thank you all for your kind comments and encouragement.
...and NO, I hadn't been drinking!😠
😍
Comment is about No. 10 Party Vomit Cleaner to Get Honours? (blog)
A brilliant insight into your (and our) ancestry, Stephen. We should not forget it. It is a thing of pride.
Comment is about We Are Legion (blog)
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We moved house about 2 years ago from our family home of 40 years. It’s a nice house where we are. But it’s not home.
Comment is about Our Old House. (blog)
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Thanks for your thoughts, MC and Stephen A.
Comment is about TOGETHER (blog)
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Grace Meadows
Sun 11th Jun 2023 20:38
Having read your poem Rob, I could say WOW! a million times but, that still wouldn't be enough! Thank you so much!
Comment is about Dimethyltryptamine Daydream (blog)
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Grace Meadows
Sun 11th Jun 2023 20:32
I can't help but join in the laughter Hugh 😂
Comment is about Jane’s new boyfriend turns out to be a disaster (blog)
Original item by hugh
The answer to everything (including ourselves it seems) is in the detail!
I think you've managed to cover most of the bases here Keith! Bravo!
Comment is about Civis sum Mundi (blog)
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I can identify with much of what you say Jordyn.
I keep telling myself to ignore my age, and to live;
to do what I love in life, rather than be ruled by self-doubt.
Comment is about "To live would be an awfully big adventure." (blog)
Original item by Jordyn Elizabeth
I love that Stephen.
The whistle that turned
My Mother around?
Comment is about We Are Legion (blog)
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A realistic take on life there.
Comment is about Protecting my Peace (blog)
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Thanks JD.
Despite my wanting to look after the earth and nature in general, I often wonder if we're being gaslit by the criminals - EG. UK water companies in charge of the current omnishambles?
Comment is about It’s the end of the world as we know it (blog)
Original item by JD Russell
Sometimes Life can place you in shackles, Jordyn. But eventually they wear down & freedom comes like a breath of fresh air. Brilliantly written, as always 🌈
Comment is about "To live would be an awfully big adventure." (blog)
Original item by Jordyn Elizabeth
Thanks Rob.
A substance that occurs in humans?
Sounds good!
Comment is about Dimethyltryptamine Daydream (blog)
Original item by Rob Cohen
Well done Clare.
It takes some doing to connect with a child's view of the world.
Comment is about The Little Princess. (blog)
Original item by Clare
Well done, John, I was expecting some sort of double entendre to pop up...but, lovely, clean child friendly stuff. Nice one 😀
Comment is about TOGETHER (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Than you Tim.
I like the word shutterbug.
Carpe Diem indeed!
Comment is about How long will we have to wait? (blog)
Original item by Tim Ellis
When I was a 50s teenager, finding the singing of Frank Sinatra
in my elder sister's record collection, and the Rockn'Roll of my
own generation, i don't recall any need for adult concerns about my "well being". Indeed, I was only too happy to live my life
free from such intrusions, happy to "grin and bear it" as I
approached the time to take the train from a rural youth to The Smoke and the apprenticeship to a working life - aged 16. Those
were perhaps my luckiest freedom-filled days!
Comment is about Adolescence (blog)
Original item by Stuart Vanner
Well put Keith
I Citizen of the World, when answering census forms, and snotty- nosed interrogations from such as the local authority, usually end up putting "Irish, Viking, Anglo-Norman, with possibly a tad of Gaulish je ne sais quoi."
-all of which tallies with recent results of my blood tests.
They don't like it up 'em you know!
Comment is about Civis sum Mundi (blog)
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Good can be found in everyone Hugh-we just need to know where to look.😉😉😉😉😉😉😉😉
Comment is about Jane’s new boyfriend turns out to be a disaster (blog)
Original item by hugh
GRAHAM...I wuz bein sarcastic innit!
See my re-edited post.
MC...a realistic acceptable solution?
SOCIALISM😊
Comment is about No. 10 Party Vomit Cleaner to Get Honours? (blog)
I often wonder whether the advent of a 24/7 global media
leans towards reporting events of a type that have always
been happening, in days when communications were hardly
instant or even interested in/focused on the weather and other far-away places as a matter of course (as is the case today).
One of the most devastating natural polluting effects on the
atmosphere was the vast volcanic eruption that destroyed
Krakatoa, causing a huge tsunami and a blanket of ash that
blotted out the sun for a huge distance. One can only imagine
how today's global media would report such a natural effect
on the Earth's climate. The climate change hyperbole would probably
choose to ignore such an event. After
all, there's no money in any chance of containing/controlling natural phenomena.
Comment is about It’s the end of the world as we know it (blog)
Original item by JD Russell
JC - this has shades of the work of the famous Tin Pan Alley lyricist Irving Caesar who was commissioned (and resisted at
first) to write a song encouraging kiddies to follow a healthy
lifestyle. He is on record as saying it gave him the greatest
satisfaction once he had undertaken and completed the work.
Comment is about TOGETHER (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Certainly, the current lot of bums on the parliamentary benches
leave much to be desired, with a few notable exceptions who
veer from the current woke narrative that feels sorry for everyone
but offers no realistic acceptable solutions. There is room for
a clear-out of what we have endured of late on both sides of
the House. With tongue only partially in cheek, I ask "Who guards the Guardian readers?" 😋
Comment is about No. 10 Party Vomit Cleaner to Get Honours? (blog)
Then I ask why you have posted on a poetry website then?
Comment is about No. 10 Party Vomit Cleaner to Get Honours? (blog)
The original intention is found in governing interest of advancing
the old Domes Day register attributed to William the Conk who
chose to stick his nose into everything when he arrived here back
in the day. As life becomes more complicated, its effects are
sought for "record purposes" in the usual political pursuit of
exercising power and control. Quelle surprise! 😋
Comment is about Civis sum Mundi (blog)
Original item by keith jeffries
Right up my street, Clare, farts & snot! Top notch poetry! 👏
Comment is about The Little Princess. (blog)
Original item by Clare
"when the forest burns along the trails, like Gods eyes in my headlights, when dogs are looking for their bones, and it is raining ice picks on your steel shores, I'm going to break, I'm going to break my, I'm going to break my rusty cage and run!" Johny Cash.
Comment is about "To live would be an awfully big adventure." (blog)
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Uilleam, I am with you all the way. We need a radical change of government and direction. We are being mismanaged by buffoons.
Thank you for this,
Keith
Comment is about No. 10 Party Vomit Cleaner to Get Honours? (blog)
Thankyou Kevin and Kevin. Yes, Santa Krampus might have got Operation Yew Tree involved.
And thanks for the Likes, Stephen A and Pete.
Comment is about TOGETHER (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Thank you so much Stephen, Helene, Clare, Graham & Kevin for your wonderful comments.
Been organising the family tree & you find out some fascinating stuff, both good & bad! Unfortunately there's no rich relatives I've came across yet! 😞
And thanks for the likes Manish & Bethany 🌈
Comment is about We Are Legion (blog)
Original item by Stephen W Atkinson
Piccallilllli Kevin. As Peter Kaye says, “ Even scientists don’t know what’s in that stuff”.
Comment is about I WENT DOWN TO THAT LONDON (blog)
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that's become one of my favourites. Thank you for Horace Bum Breath.😁
Comment is about The Little Princess. (blog)
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Sun 11th Jun 2023 10:16
what would this world be without the occasional spoonful of humorous sugar that helps the medicine go down
Comment is about The Little Princess. (blog)
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Sun 11th Jun 2023 10:00
my friend
you are an amazing vehicle we all need to ride on
while letting you take us on journey after journey
down endless roads of inspiration
well! I've got my ticket!
Comment is about Dimethyltryptamine Daydream (blog)
Original item by Rob Cohen
Thanks Stephen. I’ve been writing poems about climate change for many years, and trying to spread the word by other means too. But people only hear what they want to hear.
Comment is about Failing the people (blog)
Original item by Tim Ellis
I worked in Scampton in the eighties, when the Red Arrows were based there
It's a shame to think of it closing.
But beyond shameful to think of shipping containers being used to house refugees.
Good luck with your campaign.
Comment is about 617 (blog)
Original item by Jason Bayliss
If owt you have lifted the standard.
It's not easy writing for children.
I bet they loved this.
Comment is about The Little Princess. (blog)
Original item by Clare
This is one of the finest poems that I've come across, Keith. Loved every bit of it. Highly descriptive and imaginative, every line is poetic and exotically written with great bunch of vocabulary. I'm going to save this and read.
Thank you.🌻
Comment is about The Empty Quarter (blog)
Original item by keith jeffries
They're giving TWO FINGERS to the UKs Covid dead!
Absolute arseholeing scumbags.
Totally morally bankrupt.
We should be taking to the streets and kicking off.
GENERAL ELECTION NOW!
Comment is about No. 10 Party Vomit Cleaner to Get Honours? (blog)
Brilliant John.
I could just imagine, if you accidentally left the wrong papers.
Hundreds of kids traumatized by Krampus for example.
Comment is about TOGETHER (blog)
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Sat 10th Jun 2023 20:42
Yet another flawless gem Mr Cohen
Comment is about the cost of writing dreams (blog)
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Uilleam Ó Ceallaigh
Mon 12th Jun 2023 12:38
Thank you Tim.
I've just seen an article in the Guardian:
“UK heatwave prompts order to fire up coal plant to meet aircon demand. National Grid asks for Ratcliffe-on-Soar plant to go on standby as Britons cope with 30C temperatures”.
What absolute lunacy- for God’s sake just open the windows and drink more water!
On second thoughts, no-the power companies wouldn’t make as much money if we did that!
😡😡😡
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