River Thames, full moon, Jupiter close by; faithful later still as moon softens and glows low in lightening dawn.. Is there a better place to hear own footsteps on ancient ground?
Category Archives: philosophy
Unofficially …
Streetlife looks at the world from behind dark glasses; his office, a table on a pavement. ‘Do you know,’ he asks anyone listening, ‘ there are 4000 drivers of new Olympic BMWs in London only one of whom has a PCO’. A ‘PCO’ is given to a chauffeur, licensed by the Public Carriage Office, who has some knowledge of London, a clean criminal record, and is deemed medically fit to drive…
July july
On course : lots of winners, wrong combinations .. No Nobby, no Duffer .. Mr and Mrs Tophat rubbed out at bridge; black dog happy – spyche remembers, then goes home
Let’s dance
Marigold gets sad knock back, Deed sums up, Settings ‘offs’ target. Not-so-Quickly moves on – spyche turns pots, turns tables – and, hello, freedom ..no ‘foreign domination or despotic government’ Let’s dance!
They died together
He was 26 and at the end of his second tour. He talked about the marvels of watching the sunrise and light in the dark sky, of flying above woolly clouds, and recognizing his home station on the green earth below…
Ralph could have baled out with his crew but he didn’t, even though he was unhurt. Bob and he went down to their deaths together, and are buried in the same plot in the cemetery at …
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Wake up NHS!
So exercise is not the answer to depression. Now we know. Real change is organic – it can’t be counted, anymore than happiness can be prescribed…wake up NHS!
On feet
Fineline back on feet, gently does it. And Rupert Murdoch ? living illustration of the power that resides in silence ..
A salt
‘There’s been an assault on the stairs’ shouts Met man through letterbox at 2am .. ‘ I didn’t know it was an offence to leave salt on the stairs’ Willo-the wisp replies sleepily..
Sage
Foto says it’s all too late -‘clothe yourself in the life you’ve lived not the one you’ve been waiting for’ – ..and, as crowds in Oxford Street overpower the recovering spyche, ‘fashion isn’t to be found in a shop window’.. true, oh sage, true
Helplessly gay
Yoyo and Sweet Bean get diamond, spyche, Dougal and Zebedee get helplessly gay, while Settings’ hens fail to lay golden egg ..So-so Special contracts rarest of blood cancers..spyche blames Barrow and Fallpaper