I've read Waiting for Godot about half-a-dozen times and seen it twice on stage many years ago. I can never make up my mind if Godot is God or death, or if Estragon and Vladimir are in Hell or Purgatory or in a care home near Clacton-on-Sea. Anyway, this isn't really about Didi and Gogo. [Image from PXhere.com]
Splendid
Posted on Tue, 24 Dec 2019
stuff. How marvellous that Spartak Moscow is quite a villainous chap, as back in the bad old days their football team was full of soldiers who were quite villainous themselves.
I do like the bold type for certain things that would have...
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I voted every
Posted on Mon, 18 Nov 2019
time whilst I lived in Spain until they said I couldn't. Why wouldn't I vote now? Despite what the poem says.
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This gorgeous piece
Posted on Tue, 08 Oct 2019
that's about soup - and contains surprises just like the catch-all soup our (grand)parents made from leftovers and whatever they grew- is our Facebook and Twitter Pick of the Day. Why not share AND retweet if you like it too?
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Madcap
Posted on Mon, 09 Sep 2019
humour is the only antidote to extremism... Where are the satirists? They should be firing broadsides port and starboard, the answer to the rise of the right is most definitely not a jump to the left, despite what Frank'N'Furter says.
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Sad and Wistful
Posted on Mon, 09 Sep 2019
laughter in the dark. I hope it makes you feel better, because it does me - and I expect it does everyone with any sense who reads it. Brava!
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This is our Facebook and Twitter Pick of the Day
Posted on Tue, 20 Aug 2019
The ever quirky hudsonmoon tries something different today and by golly it works well. That's why it's our Facebook and Twitter Pick of the Day. Why not share or retweet if you like it too?
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This is our Facebook and Twitter Pick of the Day.
Posted on Tue, 13 Aug 2019
A comforting read, do click the link and listen to it being read extremely well by the author.
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It's fairly recent
Posted on Wed, 14 Aug 2019
from a US radio advertising campaign from the 30's I think. It means this is going/has started well - possibly after repeated failed attempts. Popularised by Jack Benny and the like in comedy sketches thereafter.
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This
Posted on Tue, 30 Jul 2019
topical piece captures the futility of getting away from it all, whatever "it" is, it's in our baggage and that's why it's our Facebook and Twitter Pick of the Day.
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Most enjoyable.
Posted on Thu, 07 Feb 2019
One or two things. Incognito is one word.
Kirk is almost exclusively used for Church in the Church of Scotland. Your priest(s) are Catholics, I presume, since they practise the rite of Exorcism.
I like the idea of the stories being...
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