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my poetry corner
Posted Mar 24, 2004
I wrote this or something similar.My problem if I write a poem when I go to write it again its different the back ground to this poem I went on my annual holiday to Buckfast with cats and lovely wife.If anybody has gone down the South Devon Expressway as you pass the divide to Torquay and come to the top of hill by the race course the vista opens before you.
Soft winter sun shines on,
Sleepy valleys,full of
Somked hazed villages.
Calling the weary traveller home.
Green rolling hills seduce tired eyes.
The angelus bells call the faithful
To evening prayer clasped hands
Pray for another peace filled day.
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Hernia,s and family trees
Posted Sep 5, 2003
Having had a hernia operation last Monday and now facing 4 to 6 weeks of forced leave,it was about time to revist old websites that have been neglected,basically to moan or not as the case maybe.With hernia ops they should show you the after affects so you can be prepared for the assault on the male groin.Mine looks like if when under they bashed it with a wooden mallet then sliced me open to see the results.My joke to my wife was "MY GOD THEY CUT MY BO///.S OFF"when I came too.It was also nerve racking when the nurse orders you to sleep or else.Then when you wake up they get you to urninate before they let you home.I'm sorry but my nads are black and blue I'll be lucky if I can stop screaming or even remeber what I'm suppose to do with them.
Nowadays they keep you in for a day not keep you for at least three days or a week as years ago.On top of that my other have wants me to put ice on it to take out the swelling no thank you my poor nads and groin have enough shock for one life time they only got over a vasectomy 10 years ago.
While recovering I thought I look up the family tree.My surname is common enough but because I spell it with a "y" not an "i" then it put its apart.That makes it interesting my family originates from Ireland and on recent visit looked up some of my wifes family tree and associated interesting places.Acording one website we could be descend from a Yorkshire family my wifes family all so originated in Yorkshire therefore we could be distanly related.Anybody studying family trees will realise that it's big business and apparently the Mormons are the best to start from as they belive if they save one family memember then it goes back to when God was a boy.
So what have I discovered is that one branch of the family tree was related to Mrs Fitzherbert that sceretly married George the forth when he was Prince of Wales and they could have had at least one or two girls.Which begs the question if Queen Victoria wasn't around the Crown could have gone to Commoners and Catholics.Since I fit those two criterea I want my crown only joking??.As I find more tidbits I'll post them while I recover.
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existence nothing but existence
Posted Jun 24, 2003
The other day at work we got around to the question why are we here,why do we get up in the morning and go to bed at night and finally who checks time keepers.we are here one,s guess is because of our parents and either a cold winters night or to much honeymooning.Going back further depending if you are a creationist or evoluntionist,if you're the former God made Adam then he begat so did his decendents and they are still begatting adinfinitum.If you're the later them from primeval soup to modern man the slow process of evoling took place and goes on adinfinitum.
Nobody asked why we go to work but with out money we not could pay taxes to run our government who try to run our lives.Or earn to feed ourselves,clothe ourselves or when the lucky few have enough go to some foreign country to look at other peolpe earn a living and get a suntan for free,or look at how other people live life better than us and look happy about it too.
As for why we get up each day we have to thank Lyle Watson and his book Supernature.It seems every living organism is tided to a rhythm of life that carries on wether we live or die,from the smallest bacteria to the revoling off the earth on its axsis.So you ask your self we know that,yet have you ever sat down ask why,why do we exist at all.
As for who watches the time keepers that one,s hope someone else could answer.After all if they make a mistake who corrects them who sets their time.Since times has no measurment of it,s self man does it for it,but who's to say we got it right did me make a miscaluation and have be living out on kink with the rest of the universe.If someone reads this have go and answer.
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Summer days
Posted Jun 20, 2003
This time of year reminds me of the time that we as a family spent two summer holidays in a Quarry Cottage outside the
village of Beer(Not a bad name for a village)in Devon.My dad worked for Bath and Portland Stone at the time.There was quarry near by my Uncle Frank worked there before he went on to own the Loders Arms in Loders Dorset.
Remembering the the hill oppsite where me and my brothers used to climb up.The cottage was really old I remember the uneven floors the old fire place with those china dogs on the mantlepiece.Another thing I remembered is that next door was man who was cripple and he tried to get us to take a rabbit home with us.The only draw back was the chemical toilet which had to be emptied every day and having to empty it into the cess pit.
I have always promised myself a cosy cottage to live in, it's that quintisessential English image that makes me proud to live in this country.I still have photos off us their and I do remember having a guide around the quarries for free now you have to pay,the cottage is now private property I have how ever has it now has mange to put in a proper toilet and keept it to its original character.
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Are we are getting like our dad,s
Posted Jun 5, 2003
In the current debate at work about the radio play it became obvious that we are becoming like our dad,s most of my fellow work mates are all forty somethings and have children of our own.We where listneing to the evening show on radio 1 and Tony(whom I call Foggy after the chracter in Last of the Summer Wine)was saying that whilst watching TOTP2 he cringed at what he liked and his 11 year old son thought it was rubbish.Mad Mike(because his ok)was saying that it's hard to get into todays music.I said you have to half stoned to understand at least some of it.
It all goes to show that as each generation grows so the previous one forgets that it was once young.I do my best to keep with my childrens music of course I will be chuffed if they like heavy metal or guitar bands.So much of todays music is bland it reminds me of the early sixties when the music was soft and cuddly.So if music history repeats it,s self we could be in for a sea change in music.
Going back to half stoned I remember watching a Yes concert when Trevour Horn(Buggles?) was lead singer and sitting been between two people who where smoking dope so I knew what I was talking about.Nobody ever complains about getting secondary stoned only cancer from passive smoking.I have been to many concerts and sat or stood nearby dope smokers and it hasn't harmed me yet,I guess like Bill Clinton it's all right as long as you don't inhale.
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