Miscellaneous
True Tales from an Austere Kingdom - The Horse Pills
The London papers were full of it. "Plague closes London", "Record Numbers Dead". Consequently there was virtually nobody at my club, so I sat with...
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There's A New Biscuit In Town! (Called The Taliban Biscuit!) by Alfred N.Muggins
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Now at the end of August (or the middle of September) there’s a new biscuit in town! Taliban have taken over pretty much the whole of Afghanistan by...
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On a Diet
Oh dear, I do feel glum. The mirror shows my reet big tum. No more chips for me - I'll just chew some gum. I'd walk tut shops now, to reduce me bum,...
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Antic Hay
Books were burned in Canada [Canada!] last week. In protest at depictions of indigenous peoples. Now, I'm not defending these depictions and if Canada's school libraries want to remove Tintin and others from their shelves, that's fine. I just disagree with people burning books, because people who burn books, as a better writer than me once said, often end up burning people. Anyway, here's this. I wrote it last time I got wound up about book burning.
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Anniversary Rhyme
I actually wrote this for a different numbered anniversary. Found it today and changed one letter to a capital. [See if you can guess which. A puzzle too, eh?] I may record it if I get around to it. Image is used in acc. w/ CC-by SA 2.0
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And...
Cheery stuff. Image free for non-c use from wallpaperflare.com
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Golden Memories: TV Programmes Part Two
A few 1960's TV programmes are hard to forget, because they have rightly achieved cult status, and are now regularly repeated. These include The...
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Sunday Morning, 3 a.m.
Odd... I quite understand if you don't like it. Image is free for non-commercial use from pxfuelhere.com
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Aunt Tilly
Water and bare walls, reluctant bread and butter when I was hungry, entire conversations that failed to admit my existence. A visit to my aunt Tilly...
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Death and the Cigarettes
Death was smoking a cigarette. Smoke was seeping through his cloak, surrounding him in a dark mist. No harm in smoking if you're Death, I thought to...
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