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Five Word Friday
Five word Friday on Saturday.
How did February go so fast and now we are into March?Friday was the first Friday of the month and as is usual, it called for a blog post, but I was so busy doing other things that I forgot, so with apologies, it’s being written on Saturday. So my five words this month are FIVE WORD FRIDAY ON SATURDAY
On Friday we went to Opera in the Bay to see and hear Mozart’s…
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Another favourite
Another favourite from long ago is Walter de la Mare’s “The Listeners.” This was brought to mind when I was rereading The Highwayman. Walter de la Mare and Alfred Noyes lived at the same time in England, the late 19th century, and were no doubt both caught up in the romance and rhythm of words leading in particular to The Listener and The Highwayman
Read the poems aloud and listen to the rhythm.…
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Even More..
Did you read Alfred Noyes poems in your younger days, or are you still reading them?
For those of you who don’t know him, he was a prolific poet and in a time when it was almost unheard of (late 19th Century), he lived a quite comfortable life off the income earned from writing poetry. He is said to have “enjoyed notable relationships throughout his life, apparently drinking tea with Theodore…
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And Another
J M W Turner. HMS Temeraire being towed to be broken upOriginal held in National Gallery in London.
Today while making the bed (the trivial round, the common task) I looked at my framed print of the magnificent painting by J W M Turner and marvelled anew at Father’s fascination with English art and poetry, and his determination to share it with his girls.
I have said before, that because of…
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Waitangi Day
Today February 6 is a public holiday in New Zealand – Waitangi Day. It celebrates the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi the nation’s founding document that was signed on this day in 1840.
The document was signed on behalf of Queen Victoria by William Hobson, the then Governor of NZ, and by various Maori chiefs representing their tribes. NZ Maoris are tribal and there is not one Maori nation…
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Yet Another Poem
“A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sound.“Percy Bysshe Shelley.1792-1822
Poetry has always been part of my life. As a family, we used to recite to each other and we all had favourite poems and favourite authors. I have shared some with you but now wish to share a lighthearted one that has been on my mind all day.
If no one ever marries…
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Hop Picking in Kent
I have been looking back some 70 years to growing up in London during and following the end of the Second World War. There were few luxuries to be had and little money to pay for them. Holidays were one of the luxuries many couldn’t afford.
At its height, from the Twenties to the Fifties, about 200,000 East Enders – mostly women and children – made the annual pilgrimage down into the Kentish hop…
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Cricket on the Green
The thwack of leather on willow and I am taken back to England when as a newly married young woman, I was introduced to cricket on the village green.
My DYS (Dashing Young Scotsman) was an avid cricket fan and most Saturdays in the Summer would find us at a cricket match where 11 serious young men (and often not so young men) in whites would attempt to hit a leather ball bowled at them by one of…
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Five Word Friday
Friday, February 2 – it’s the first Friday of the month and so time for Five Word Friday. My five words for this month are The Way Through the Woods
Do you know the poem The Way Through The Woods by Rudyard Kipling, the English novelist, short-story writer, poet, and journalist? He was born in British India, which inspired much of his work. 1865-1936
Maybe you know him through The Jungle Book…
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The first of the month
Among the many things I miss now that my elder sister is no longer with us, is a silly thing. On the first of every month since we were little girls, she would ask “Did you say white rabbits?” This continued until all three of us were married and had our own families. All so very far apart in distance, Christine, the eldest in Los Angeles, Marianne the youngest in London, and me, the middle child…
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The end of the month
Following WordPress’ Bloganuary I set myself a challenge to write a post every day of the month.
Well how did I do – quite well, I think. I wrote for 29 of the 31 days and so I am pleased with the result. Remember Lord Marks of Marks and Spencer – the cost of perfection is too great, close enough is good enough.
And what then of February? 29 days as it is a leap year. I will see how well I do…
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A Difficult Task
Talking with a friend today we discussed and compared some of the tasks we undertook in our long and varied careers. But we agreed that mine was the most difficult one.
I wrote about this in January 2013 (can it really be 11 years!) and would like to share it here.
I have talked about the challenges and prompts that I have used in the past. This one was a prompt from Trifecta –
The challenge…
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Society of the Snow
It’s not often these days that I write about a movie I have seen but I have just watched Society of the Snow on Netflix. Much has been written about this crash and those who survived 71 days in one of the most inhospitable areas of the world.
Have you read or heard about it? In 1972 the ‘Old Christians Club’ an amateur rugby club, charted a Uruguayan Air Force plane from Montevideo, Uruguay,…
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A Day Without a Post
“We each hear different drummers,but still find music to dance together.”Judith Baxter, sister, friend, granma and confidante1938 –
You may know that I decided to join WordPress’ Bloganuary this year. The am/commitment was to post a blog each day in January using the prompts provided. By day 6 I had decided that I thought the prompts were useless, but would continue with the commitment of 31…
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Do You Remember
Do you remember or are you old enough to have learned about the Kenyan fight for independence and the Mau Mau Rebellion? As a teenager in Britain in the 1950s I read about this rebellion and how brutal were these MauMau At that time, we didn’t have 24-hour media coverage and relied on print newspapers, the TV News for those of us lucky to have the newly introduced television, and the news shown…
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You Can't Beat Wellington on a Good Day
“Sunshine on my shoulders makes me happySunshine in my eyes can make me crySunshine on the water looks so lovelySunshine almost always makes me high
If I had a day that I could give youI’d give to you the day just like todayIf I had a song that I could sing for youI’d sing a song to make you feel this way..”John Denver, American singer/songwriter and activist. 1943 -1997
And the summer in…
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Friendship
I choose my friends for their good looks; my acquaintances for their good character and my enemies for their good intellects.A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.Oscar Wilde dramatist, novelist, and poet – 1854-1900V
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Oscar Wilde, that 19th-century Irish writer, poet and wit, used these lines in his play Portrait of Dorian Grey and it set me thinking…
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