Or how making life easy for some makes life difficult for so many
others! 😐
Comment is about Fake (blog)
Original item by Rick Varden
The gift of freedom for so many. What goes around comes
around! 😌
Comment is about The Wheel (blog)
Original item by Twilbury Wist
Thankyou, Uilleam.
Comment is about "TWO WORLD WARS AND ONE WORLD CU-U-UP" (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Thank you so much for your kind and positive comments. Appreciated.
Rick
Comment is about Fake (blog)
Original item by Rick Varden
Tue 3rd Sep 2024 11:17
Tue 3rd Sep 2024 11:16
I remember them well, on the West Highland Way in Scotland!😡
Comment is about Midges (blog)
Original item by Trevor Alexander
Tue 3rd Sep 2024 11:12
Tue 3rd Sep 2024 10:43
I'm not a footy fan John, so have no particular axe to grind in that respect. I agree with you on the hilarious Henning Wehn.
I have to say I found the recent war-related chanting of some England supporters moronic and despicably insensitive.
Comment is about "TWO WORLD WARS AND ONE WORLD CU-U-UP" (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Tue 3rd Sep 2024 10:25
I agree with much of what you say Rick.
I'd make an exception to "How can you be affected" when it comes to "live" theatre performed by our amateur dramatic societies, and of course, Professional actors. I've often had tears in my eyes during touching performances.
Comment is about Fake (blog)
Original item by Rick Varden
You're on to something here, Rick. Everything going digital only seems to benefit some CEO at the top of the chain. Everyone else suffers, whether it is vulnerability to online fraud, or sheer bemusement and demoralisation at the online hoops we are constantly expected to jump through. Hanging on at call centres for what feels like hours, only to be sent an online form to fill in. The Post Office scandal is a prime example of this. The computer said No. But it turned out the computer was screwing everyone. And of course the recent riots only happened because of lies on social media. I exempt our wonderful Write Out Loud from all this, of course!
Comment is about Fake (blog)
Original item by Rick Varden
Thanks for your thoughts, David.
Comment is about "TWO WORLD WARS AND ONE WORLD CU-U-UP" (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Thanks to those who have given likes to this scribble, also to Uilleam for the comment. The Cats are often among the pigeons in poetry.
The illusive nature of poetry and writing in general is often simply awaiting an active ingredient to stir the pot of imagination, when it does so it lifts like a gentle breeze.
https://wolfgarwords.com/2024/09/02/songs-to-lift-a-heart/
David RL Moore
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZokPAuhD6k
Comment is about Songs to lift a heart (blog)
Original item by David RL Moore
Hi John,
It often raises a smile for me when people mention "The War" I usually ask which one they are referring to as there have been multiple in which British Forces have been engaged since 45.
I once had a half wit try and tell me NI wasn't that bad, I suggested he should ask the relatives of my dead friends or the innocent people of that Province who had their lives ruined how they feel about that supposed insignificant skirmish.
People often like to associate themselves with a war-time spirit they have only seen in films or read in books.
Contrary to popular belief many Germans have a keen sense of humour and irony, as indicated by your comments.
David
PS, although you might find members of the AfD singing old panzer marching songs these days. Racism and Nationalism of the toxic kind knows no bounderies.
Comment is about "TWO WORLD WARS AND ONE WORLD CU-U-UP" (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Many thanks - Larisa, MC Newberry & Uilleam for your feedback & comments 🙂
Thanks for likes - Manish, Holden & Hélène 👍
Comment is about Heart Broken (blog)
Original item by Tom Doolan
Thanks for all the likes Jordyn, Larisa, Holden, K.Lynn, Tim and Cryptid,
I don't absence makes the heart grow fonder in that context Graham!
A good point Uilleam, another facet to compare in the mix. I suppose a sense of awe is missing with politicians.
Thanks Stephen, Yes, and I would add that an early choice of career may not be our destiny.
Ray
Comment is about THE SKY'S THE LIMIT (blog)
Original item by ray pool
Thanks you all ❤️ , I appreciate the love to the last line lol because I kept rethinking it.
Comment is about Hooked (blog)
Original item by Arrianna
A nation once again 🏴
Comment is about England [Stop the Boots!] (blog)
Original item by Uilleam Ó Ceallaigh
A poem that drops the reader into a moment of time in the poet's life. Weather, seasons, children, a sense of contemplation. Lovely, Ornella.
Comment is about Autumn Memories (blog)
Original item by Ornella. Bushell
Autumn is the mature elegant woman, well used to adapting to
the pressures upon her existence and succeeding in being
welcomed for her appearance to relieve the wayward behaviour
of frivolous summer and ease us into the acceptance of the
appearance of harsh unpredictable winter in good style.
Comment is about Love Triangle (blog)
Original item by Larisa Rzhepishevska
A simple declaration with a very satisfying final line. Less can
be more!
Comment is about Hooked (blog)
Original item by Arrianna
A theme that finds a companion in the work of Sir John Betjeman.
The presentation is simple and all the better for it.
Comment is about Night Flight (blog)
Original item by Tom Harding
A performer who. it might be said with some accuracy, reflected
a rapidly changing world. I retain the enduring image of the
combination of the "old and new" when seeing him duetting
with the great Bing Crosby, an unlikely pairing that somehow
worked despite the contrast in style and age.
Comment is about SATELLITE of LOVE (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
Thanks MC - re your note on ukulele players, I would be fed up too if I believed this was the case. The instrument just makes you smile, & our monthly pub gigs are a recurring source of joy. On Saturday there were just 4 of us playing a carefully compiled setlist of pop classics from 6 decades. It was a “quiet gig” due to summer holidays, but despite this, all those present loved it. I just think it’s surreal & a little hilarious that you can mix songs like Psycho Killer by Talking Heads or Sweet Child of Mine by Guns & Roses in with the more obvious choices. Our village primary school kids have just enjoyed a term of ukulele tuition & we were invited in to play for them. You are so right, it is a hugely accessible instrument, a great way into playing & performing music for people of all ages (myself definitely included!) - and it certainly sounds a lot better than the recorder!
Comment is about The UkeFest (blog)
Original item by R A Porter
Readily recognisable. Life can present very difficult challenges,
often seemingly unsurmountable but we must endure and overcome them as best we can as we make our way through
this Earthly existence. Nil desperandum.
Comment is about Heart Broken (blog)
Original item by Tom Doolan
The threat to England was always perceived as "the mob" -
a force that invariably arose from a sense of injustice and/or betrayal at the hands of "the establishment". Indeed, so dangerous was its existence thought to be to the latter that the
Riot Act became law. In later historical terms, the real threat
in a much wider sense has come from the left, with the likes of
the sympathisers for the Lenin/Stalin myth of a socialist
nirvana - in reality a ruthless political ideology that thought
nothing of destroying and dismantling the hopes and dreams
of its own peoples by way of wholesale imprisonment and murder. As for England and her people, they buried Karl Marx,
didn't they? 😉
Comment is about England [Stop the Boots!] (blog)
Original item by Uilleam Ó Ceallaigh
Mon 2nd Sep 2024 11:12
...sometimes it's amongst the pigeons!😐
Comment is about Songs to lift a heart (blog)
Original item by David RL Moore
Aside from requesting the British museum to restore the Elgin Marbles to Athens, yes "We want our marbles back!" cultural appropriation or simply theft is still endorsed by institutions of the United Kingdom. But more significantly fraudulent narratives appear to haunt the literature of King Arthur especially from the Welsh Triads in the 18th century:
https://pendragonry.wordpress.com/
Comment is about The Legend & History of King Arthur (blog)
Original item by leonidas kazantheos
Mon 2nd Sep 2024 09:30
We celebrated a birthday outdoors on Saturday, a beautifully warm afternoon, then in the evening a cold wind came, and I was glad of the spare fleecie I'd brought, just in case....whoever said it was correct: "there's no such thing as bad weather, only inadequate clothing".
Comment is about Autumn Memories (blog)
Original item by Ornella. Bushell
Mon 2nd Sep 2024 09:16
A famliar scene...very touching Tom.
Comment is about Night Flight (blog)
Original item by Tom Harding
Mon 2nd Sep 2024 09:13
I don't know if it's still there, but I saw a mural of him in Manchester's Northern Quarter.
Comment is about SATELLITE of LOVE (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
Mon 2nd Sep 2024 09:05
"I can't do right for wrong" Yes I know the feeling Tom.
Comment is about Heart Broken (blog)
Original item by Tom Doolan
Mon 2nd Sep 2024 09:03
According to some, our seasons are merging...maybe they've put aside their differences?😏
Comment is about Love Triangle (blog)
Original item by Larisa Rzhepishevska
Mon 2nd Sep 2024 08:57
Core beliefs being....MC?
"Down with the nanny state!" whinge the party of those who can afford nannies, servants and chauffeurs.
Comment is about Where is the Joy? (blog)
Original item by Steve White
I enjoyed reading and listening to this poem. Thank you so much for sharing. With best wishes, Larisa
Comment is about Heart Broken (blog)
Original item by Tom Doolan
Thanks, Uilleam. Yes, modern war is a bit like business. All about the bottom line and who cares how you get there.
And thanks to Larisa, Holden, Manish, Steve, David, Rick and Tim.
Comment is about Business (A friendly face) (blog)
Original item by Stephen Gospage
I like the detail of this poem, Steve. There's amazing deference to royals everywhere. You never know, joy may come when we least expect it!
Comment is about Where is the Joy? (blog)
Original item by Steve White
That’s bang on Thank you. That was the exact spirit it was written in, and after loss MCN. 😃
Comment is about Can You Hear Me Mother? (blog)
Original item by Rick Varden
That’s bang on Thank you. That was the exact spirit it was written in, and after loss M. C. Newberry.
Comment is about Can You Hear Me Mother? (blog)
Original item by Rick Varden
"We are witnessing the assault by the global power interests on
the concept of national self-determination, with its ongoing condescending know-best attitude that brooks no challenge to
its nanny approach."
That's some conspiracy theory.
Comment is about Where is the Joy? (blog)
Original item by Steve White
I find it depressing that those who play the ukelele might feel
alienated rather than linked by their "feel" for this modest little
instrument. Its simplicity makes it affordable, fun to use, and in the hands of expert players, a revelation.
Comment is about The UkeFest (blog)
Original item by R A Porter
We are witnessing the assault by the global power interests on
the concept of national self-determination, with its ongoing condescending know-best attitude that brooks no challenge to
its nanny approach. The parliamentary Tories betrayed not
only their own core beliefs but the trust and good faith of the
very people they were elected to represent and serve. That
betrayal (about which George Orwell would surely have found
material for a book!) seems designed to allow the same in, but
under a different name. led by Keir "I'd rather be in Davos than
Westminster" Starmer in what has been the epitome of a "transfer of like for like". Our forebears would cringe with mortification at what is being done to this old country of ours.
Comment is about Where is the Joy? (blog)
Original item by Steve White
A poignant combination of pathos and comedy, with the basic
harsh reality pf loss seeping through with every line. Perhaps
a sign that the basic melancholy in our national character can
best be answered by a stoic resort to humour to salve the wound
that grief inflicts.
Comment is about Can You Hear Me Mother? (blog)
Original item by Rick Varden
Tim this reminded me of the Arlo Guthrie song 'The City of New Orleans'. I was humming it reading your piece. Excellent!
Comment is about Time on a Train (blog)
Original item by Tim Higbee
Thanks Manish, it was an interesting journey.
Thank you, Holden and Arrianna. I'm pleased you liked it.
Comment is about Time on a Train (blog)
Original item by Tim Higbee
M.C. Newberry
Tue 3rd Sep 2024 15:55
Your father-in-law was one of the reasons for going to war
against a vile regime, an image of young innocence in need of
protection and preservation that no doubt stayed in the minds of respective dads from across the England of that uniquely
threatening time. .He would have had a first hand recall of that
stoic generation and kept it close.
Comment is about "TWO WORLD WARS AND ONE WORLD CU-U-UP" (blog)
Original item by John Coopey