I can hear this as a song lyric in my head. Nice one!

Comment is about Nobody Loved Me Like You (blog)

Original item by Tom Doolan

A thing of our own creation Stephen. No wonder we both love and hate it

Comment is about Time (blog)

Original item by Stephen Gospage

Thanks, Uilleam. As I get older, I try to convince myself of this.

And my thanks to Nigel, Hugh, Tom, Pete, Larisa, Holden and K Lynn for liking this poem.

Comment is about Time (blog)

Original item by Stephen Gospage

Ah, the long stand! I was sent to fetch one of those - plus a round tuit or two - back when i was a youngster. Them were t'days!

Comment is about GACK IN THE GOX (blog)

Original item by Martin Peacock

Read this if you can with a southern draw, it one of my country songs. Enjoy.

Comment is about Blonde Girls & Black Mercedes (blog)

Original item by Luke

I've been told that in such situations, a generous dollop of elbow grease is most efficacious-failng that, a long stand might just do the trick!

Comment is about GACK IN THE GOX (blog)

Original item by Martin Peacock

Thank you so much for your nice comment, M.C.Newberry

Comment is about To The Creator (blog)

Original item by Larisa Rzhepishevska

Hi, Ano! Thank you so much for reading 😁 looking forward to hearing/sharing ideas in the future!

Comment is about Falling: A Prayer (blog)

Original item by Endigo Michaels

Thank you very much, Tim.😊

Comment is about Mess (blog)

Original item by Manish

Thank you yes its certainly based on reality

Comment is about Is there a Nurse in the house? (blog)

Original item by Rick Varden

😎👍

Comment is about 21st-century eulogy (blog)

Original item by JD Russell

A teacher is a vocation IMHO. You have to instinctively know
it is something you want to do. In my early days as a young
police officer I dealt with some teachers and was made very
aware of how the profession could be affected by political
belief to the detriment of the basic values of a great most
valuable profession that should be about opening up minds
not limiting them with one's own attitudes and personal convictions: the difference between a good teacher and a bad one. Something that seems very relevant to modern universities!

Comment is about The Happy Teacher (blog)

Original item by pallavitryingthings

In this life. there are always needs and sources that answer those
needs. Religious faith answers a need and is surely a huge
consolation when life is threatening or lacking a sense of purpose. "Keep the faith" is old advice that resonates positively,
so let us all try in our own way to do just that.

Comment is about To The Creator (blog)

Original item by Larisa Rzhepishevska

It is for each of us to make the best we can of this life. There
are (and always will be) times when the downside of human behaviour does its worst to destroy the essential optimism
we need to carry on but the belief in the good should always
be uppermost in our minds and guide us in the search of fulfillment and peace of mind.

Comment is about 21st-century eulogy (blog)

Original item by JD Russell

Droll fun with some NHS reality included. In my policing
past, I had dealings with many alcohol imbibers, some of whom
stick in the memory. One whom I shall call "Mary" (not her
real name) was an old dear (?) equipped with a walking stick
which she was not averse to using aggressively in her cups.
She could be such a pain that ambulance crews groaned when
some well-meaning passer-by called them to aid what they
saw as a poor old dear collapsed in a doorway...so many times.
Calls to the A&E were almost as frequent when she got taken
there and began to get naughty with the staff. We knew without being told who it would be causing the problem.

Comment is about Is there a Nurse in the house? (blog)

Original item by Rick Varden

It has been said that capitalism provides the means to enable
socialism to exist. 😏

Comment is about Hey I’m Retired! (blog)

Original item by Rick Varden

U O C...the difference about "threat" remains. The "far right" are
constantly referred to in the MSM whereas their opposite
political ideology suffers comparatively little scrutiny or
attention, its activities out of sight and at work free from
either. The state of the country today is arguably the result of
the manipulation of public perception in today's 24/7 media
that has caused the social divisions that are so prominent
now. Better the devil seen than the devil unseen!

Comment is about England [Stop the Boots!] (blog)

Original item by Uilleam Ó Ceallaigh

Mosley's Blackshirts never really caught on with the public at
large. What attention they got from their provocation in the
East End was at a time when Hitler's real intentions that became
"The Final Solution" was beyond any conception.. The public at
large gave them the same "Do us a favour mate" response they
adopted to persuade Karl Marx that his ideology was not fancied.
The man on the Clapham omnibus prevailed. We could do with
more of the latter these days!!

Comment is about "TWO WORLD WARS AND ONE WORLD CU-U-UP" (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Thank you, Uilleam Ó Ceallaigh. It is true what you say. I am from India, and the importance and value of good teaching are sadly not fully understood. It is disheartening to see this in a culture that has held learning in high regard. It is time for people (both the government and society) to understand that - A good teacher is costly, but a bad teacher costs a lot!

Comment is about The Happy Teacher (blog)

Original item by pallavitryingthings

Bravo, pallavitryingthings.
Just a BIT cross...should be a LOT!
The disrespect meted out by government and society in general to the teaching profession -who are after all “in loco parentis”- is a disgrace.
💗

Comment is about The Happy Teacher (blog)

Original item by pallavitryingthings

Thanks for the likes to Greg Freeman, Tom Doolan, Rick Varden, Steve White, Tim Higbee., and thanks for your comments, Tom and MC.

MC, a notable “mob” as you put it, was the Nazi regime whose admirers included the likes of Mosley’s BUF, the “British Union of Fascists” which were proscribed by the UK government upon the outbreak of war, as being a potential “Nazi Fifth Column”, a serious threat to the security of the United Kingdom.
That mob's admirers continue to this day to infest the UK body politic; they were then, and still are a grave threat to UK society.

Comment is about England [Stop the Boots!] (blog)

Original item by Uilleam Ó Ceallaigh

Yeah, send for the Blackshirts, John, maybe they could get the trains to run on time, whilst instilling some discipline into our youth....?

Comment is about "TWO WORLD WARS AND ONE WORLD CU-U-UP" (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Thanks for the updated likes.

David RL Moore

Comment is about Songs to lift a heart (blog)

Original item by David RL Moore

Thank you yes I think thats already happening Stephen and yes Uiliam a good case indeed!

Comment is about Hey I’m Retired! (blog)

Original item by Rick Varden

And you can’t shake this feeling
That your past life was stolen from you

I sometimes feel like that!

Comment is about Previous skins (blog)

Original item by Alexandra K. Parapadakis

Thanks Stephen. Tangible snobbery and political bias posing as literary criticism.

Comment is about The Spectator (blog)

Original item by Uilleam Ó Ceallaigh

Thanks JD.
One day we all may rely on compassion’s call
Who knows which side our buttered toast will fall

But until then, I'm all right Jack.

Comment is about 21st-century eulogy (blog)

Original item by JD Russell

Thanks John.
I have a picture of British society.

Comment is about Sixty-Five Bus Drive (blog)

Original item by John Gilbert Ellis

A good case for socialism there Rick!😏

Comment is about Hey I’m Retired! (blog)

Original item by Rick Varden

I will not serve that in which I no longer believe

Whether it call itself my race, my nationality or my religion

Hear hear.

Comment is about A WASTE OF TIME (blog)

Original item by John E Marks

I've always been of the opinion that time IS an illusion.

Comment is about Time (blog)

Original item by Stephen Gospage

The last line is quite chilling, Alexandra. A friend of mine said recently: 'one day I woke up and I was sixty and fat'. I guess we are shedding (so to speak) previous selves all the time. A fascinating, perceptive poem. Thanks.

Quite Larkinesque, or perhaps I shouldn't say such things.

Comment is about Previous skins (blog)

Original item by Alexandra K. Parapadakis

Great writing, Trevor. A really enjoyable read, as long as the midges keep away, of course! I remember one evening by a lake in rural Denmark.........

Comment is about Midges (blog)

Original item by Trevor Alexander

I think you have hit on something here, Rick. The worry is that we will end up taking this all for granted and think it normal. Back to work, perhaps!

Comment is about Hey I’m Retired! (blog)

Original item by Rick Varden

Thank you, Uilleam. It's a shame really. The Spectator used to be quite an interesting read but, like other right-of-centre publications, seems to have gone extreme and bonkers since Brexit.

Comment is about The Spectator (blog)

Original item by Uilleam Ó Ceallaigh

“Hurrah for the Blackshirts” - let’s not forget The Daily Mail, Uilleam.

Comment is about "TWO WORLD WARS AND ONE WORLD CU-U-UP" (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Thanks, Tom and Arrianna, I appreciate you liked it. 😁

Comment is about The boy in the frame (blog)

Original item by Dilsonn A. Mejía

A vile regime indeed MC.
A regime whose admirers included the likes of Mosley’s BUF, the “British Union of Fascists”: proscribed by the UK government, upon the outbreak of war, as being a potential “Nazi Fifth Column” threat to the security of the United Kingdom, and whose admirers continue to this day to infest the UK body politic.

Comment is about "TWO WORLD WARS AND ONE WORLD CU-U-UP" (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Quite, John. And perhaps part of the explanation for the slow drift of remembrance into something that's looks a little more like a celebration of militarism and national pride.

Comment is about "TWO WORLD WARS AND ONE WORLD CU-U-UP" (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

I love this one.

Comment is about Summer storms (blog)

Original item by Cryptid

Hi Ray, thanks so much. I like that idea a lot. I am pretty good at living in the moment, almost to a fault sometimes. Endings always move me.

Thanks also to Graham, Hugh, Stephen, Stephen, Aisha, Holdan and Cryptid for the likes and for stopping by to read this one. You beauties.

Comment is about The Last Great Beauty (blog)

Original item by Tom

What a great subject! Very apt title too! Good to see you again Alexandra, you keep us hungry for more here on WOL. Renewal isn’t such a bad thing.

Comment is about Previous skins (blog)

Original item by Alexandra K. Parapadakis

Through sneers and smears, their wish revealed:
that poetry penned by plebs remain concealed.

This pleb's going to his local bookshop today to order a copy.
💗

Comment is about Poetry for the Many: ed. Jeremy Corbyn, Len McCluskey (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Thank you for this article. I did read Don Patterson's review in the Spectator and found the review rather mean spirited.

Comment is about Poetry for the Many: ed. Jeremy Corbyn, Len McCluskey (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Thanks David. I'm intrigued by your refernce to "the jaws of a shark"?
The war on literacy continues... (Orwell's Prevention of Literature?) austerity but only for the less affluent and attacks on the humanities in higher education have been going on for many years.
I became an avid reader of both fact and fiction with the help of my local library which was on my walked route to and from school, of course, such a facility was a product of a socialist mindset, and is thus now an abhorrence.
And I remember with affection our teacher reading Black Beauty out to us towards the end of class.

Comment is about Garswood Library (blog)

Original item by David R Mellor

Thanks all for your likes, and for your comment Rick.
In truth, my experience was probably familiar to many children of my age and time, and it's not much different now- children as young as four learning their racism from their parents, etc.
Of course, mass media is now the tool of choice for many bullies and their enablers...the world of politics and of the arts being prime examples.

Comment is about Nil Carborundum Sanguine Desperandum (blog)

Original item by Uilleam Ó Ceallaigh

I can certainly relate to this! Oh yes. We were supposed to be ‘safe’ in school but we had the bullies and their inspirers (teachers), no good memories for me. Great piece here, Thank you

Comment is about Nil Carborundum Sanguine Desperandum (blog)

Original item by Uilleam Ó Ceallaigh

You’re absolutely right, MC. But it’s a bit of a stretch for him and anyone else under the age of 80 to bask in credit for it, don’t ya think?

Comment is about "TWO WORLD WARS AND ONE WORLD CU-U-UP" (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Note that the event has moved 50 yards to Headspace, 27 Bradshawgate Bolton BL1 1EL for this month only. All other details the same but no bar so bring your own.

Comment is about Prize-winner Trystan Lewis is guest at Write Out Loud Bolton (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Good to know that the popular poet Pam Ayres is getting her
platform as well as her employment on TV. She is an enduring
example of her sort of enviable talent. 👍

Comment is about Festival that welcomes grassroots poets: Morecambe is back! (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman