Sep. 26th, 2016
More Reading ....
Sep. 26th, 2016 04:20 pmCurrently listening to a Snarky Puppy album that bro had burned for me and sent. Modern contemporary jazz that is so awesome. I have now put it onto the Sony mp3 player.
This morning i finished reading another book. Then had a herring and mackerel salad with new potatoes for lunch , followed by a couple of apples from the pickings yesterday.
So now i am starting to read these two books -


The Angela Carter book has me hooked already.
This morning i finished reading another book. Then had a herring and mackerel salad with new potatoes for lunch , followed by a couple of apples from the pickings yesterday.
So now i am starting to read these two books -


The Angela Carter book has me hooked already.
Poems Of The Week
Sep. 26th, 2016 04:48 pmA couple of poems from Englishmen.
Is My Team Ploughing
BY A. E. HOUSMAN
“Is my team ploughing,
That I was used to drive
And hear the harness jingle
When I was man alive?”
Ay, the horses trample,
The harness jingles now;
No change though you lie under
The land you used to plough.
“Is football playing
Along the river shore,
With lads to chase the leather,
Now I stand up no more?”
Ay the ball is flying,
The lads play heart and soul;
The goal stands up, the keeper
Stands up to keep the goal.
“Is my girl happy,
That I thought hard to leave,
And has she tired of weeping
As she lies down at eve?”
Ay, she lies down lightly,
She lies not down to weep:
Your girl is well contented.
Be still, my lad, and sleep.
“Is my friend hearty,
Now I am thin and pine,
And has he found to sleep in
A better bed than mine?”
Yes, lad, I lie easy,
I lie as lads would choose;
I cheer a dead man’s sweetheart,
Never ask me whose.
Days
BY PHILIP LARKIN
What are days for?
Days are where we live.
They come, they wake us
Time and time over.
They are to be happy in:
Where can we live but days?
Ah, solving that question
Brings the priest and the doctor
In their long coats
Running over the fields
Is My Team Ploughing
BY A. E. HOUSMAN
“Is my team ploughing,
That I was used to drive
And hear the harness jingle
When I was man alive?”
Ay, the horses trample,
The harness jingles now;
No change though you lie under
The land you used to plough.
“Is football playing
Along the river shore,
With lads to chase the leather,
Now I stand up no more?”
Ay the ball is flying,
The lads play heart and soul;
The goal stands up, the keeper
Stands up to keep the goal.
“Is my girl happy,
That I thought hard to leave,
And has she tired of weeping
As she lies down at eve?”
Ay, she lies down lightly,
She lies not down to weep:
Your girl is well contented.
Be still, my lad, and sleep.
“Is my friend hearty,
Now I am thin and pine,
And has he found to sleep in
A better bed than mine?”
Yes, lad, I lie easy,
I lie as lads would choose;
I cheer a dead man’s sweetheart,
Never ask me whose.
Days
BY PHILIP LARKIN
What are days for?
Days are where we live.
They come, they wake us
Time and time over.
They are to be happy in:
Where can we live but days?
Ah, solving that question
Brings the priest and the doctor
In their long coats
Running over the fields
Just Wondering
Sep. 26th, 2016 06:31 pmStill on a book related probe -
Do you have to finish one book before you start the next one, or do you read multiple books at the same time?
In relation to multiple book reading what is the worst book hangover you’ve ever had?
Whom is the fictional character you want to believe you resemble and the fictional character you actually resemble?
Do you have to finish one book before you start the next one, or do you read multiple books at the same time?
In relation to multiple book reading what is the worst book hangover you’ve ever had?
Whom is the fictional character you want to believe you resemble and the fictional character you actually resemble?
More library music from the Music De Wolfe label - more cool and funky grooves -
Alan Parker - Rumpus
( More library music grooves )
Alan Parker - Rumpus
( More library music grooves )