Silver Lining...

 

To the Rescue!!

 FAB!

Blocked Canal

 

Census

 Clearly, everyone in the UK should have completed the Census now.  Although I'm sure there will be a lof of chasing up for the next few weeks.

So this.

(You may need to click on the questions to read them more clearly)

Shrimp at Horniman

 A new species has been found in the Horniman aquaria.  

The Guardian article is here...

AZ Warning

 

Brave New World

 Brave New World

Once the mortuary is full

And the old folks home lies empty

Once the homeless have all perished

And there’s toilet roll aplenty

Once the food banks are no more

And the plague is in retreat

Watch the happy politician

Take the praise for its defeat

He’ll praise the bulldog spirit

He’ll make mention of the blitz

He’ll say that in his brave new world

The vulnerable don’t fit

And many folk will raise a glass

And many folk will cheer

And other folk will realise

That Fascism is here

Dave Phillips

Another Nunset

 

Socks/Label

New Socks. And the label. 

Instructions on Not Giving Up

Instructions on Not Giving Up

More than the fuchsia funnels breaking out

of the crabapple tree, more than the neighbor’s

almost obscene display of cherry limbs shoving

their cotton candy-colored blossoms to the slate

sky of Spring rains, it’s the greening of the trees

that really gets to me. When all the shock of white

and taffy, the world’s baubles and trinkets, leave

the pavement strewn with the confetti of aftermath,

the leaves come. Patient, plodding, a green skin

growing over whatever winter did to us, a return

to the strange idea of continuous living despite

the mess of us, the hurt, the empty. Fine then,

I’ll take it, the tree seems to say, a new slick leaf

unfurling like a fist to an open palm, I’ll take it all.

Ada Limón 

Mirage