Monday 22 March 2021

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)

Sunday 21 March 2021

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

Friday 19 March 2021

Thursday 18 March 2021

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 

Saturday 13 March 2021