you 'ain't seen me ..

Monday, 30 July 2018

Poem 2 and 3 and 4

An Epiloge ...... John Masefield ..

I have seen flowers come in stony places
And kind things done by men with ugly faces,
And the gold cup won by the worst horse at the races,
So I trust, too.
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On Mundane Acquaintances .... Hilaire Belloc..

Good morning, Algernon: Good morning, Percy.
Good morning, Mrs. Roebeck. Christ have mercy!

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Siegfried Sassoon (no title?)

'When I'm alone' ......the words tripped of his tongue
As though to be alone were nothing strange.
'When I was young' he said. 'when I was young....

I thought of age, and loneliness, and change.
I thought how strange we grow when we're alone,
And how unlike the selves that meet, and talk,
And blow the candle out, and say good-night.
Alone... The word is life endured and known.
It is the stillness where our spirits walk
And all but inmost faith is overthrown

Thursday, 26 July 2018

Goldfrapp - Stranger (Official Video)

Playing Miriam reminded me of this track from 'Tales of Us'
the whole album, brilliant stuff from Goldfrapp, she's one
dark lady.. click on the link and play more of the album

Link... Stranger

Tuesday, 24 July 2018

poems...

Apart from up-loading music from you tube

I have nothing to say on here anymore, so to keep it going

I'll try and post a poem a week, here's the first...

A Quoi Bon Dire... by Charlotte Mew..

Seventeen years ago you said

Something that sounded like Good-bye;

And everybody thinks that you are dead,

But I.

So I, as I grow stiff and cold

To this and that say Good-bye too;

And everybody sees that I am old

But you.

And one fine morning in a sunny lane

Some boy and girl will meet and kiss and swear

That nobody can love their way again

While over there

You will have smiled, and I shall have tossed your hair.

KRO

Sunday, 20 May 2018

Benazir Bhutto

world service..

.
Whether you think she's just another corrupt politician or a
larger than life woman who belongs in the 1400s
you have to admire her bravery ...

Click on' world service' to listen, you'll have to open an
account with the BBC... it's free.

KRO

Wednesday, 2 May 2018

'Blues Run the Game'

So here we go again, will we stay or will we go, being the Blues
we won't know until the last day of the season as always,
as always " the Blues are just the same."..roll on Sunday..

KRO

Friday, 20 April 2018

Visions Of Johanna

Link... best of the best..

for me, the best version of the best of Dylan..
no idea who they are but wow.. some how
they've merged Dylan with the velvet underground..ace..

Monday, 19 March 2018

50 Mums | 50 Kids | 1 Extra Chromosome

A while back I watched a brilliant film by the magical
Sally Phillips about downs syndrome ( she has a child
born with this.) It seems we can now,( with early means
of detection and a woman's right to have an abortion)
stop anymore children with downs syndrome being
born. It looks like Iceland is well on the way to
becoming the first country to do this, the first country
to never have little bundles of pure love and joy
like these in this clip...
..think about it... what's next.... on second thoughts
don't think about it..

Link...50 mums...

the Sally Phillips film by the way
is here...Sally...
...

Sunday, 4 February 2018

The Story of a Giant Inflatable Violin

link..it's a cello not a violin..

what ever it is you'd never get it under your chin...
..first bit of vid is me in my unit (cow shed) at Runway farm
second bit is Tim the painter at ABC

KRO