A positive (+) look on life this morning:
+1 = 1 year since my last post (50/20) which celebrated two important events – the most important being my 20th wedding anniversary. Continue reading
50 years ago today John F. Kennedy challenged America to put a man on the moon within a decade. (Yes, I know: a man). And in 1969 it came to be, with a Giant Step for Mankind (Yes, I know. Man again). And the world view was forever changed. 20 years ago today, Julie married me. That was a Giant Step for Womankind; my world changed forever. 20 years later I am still over the Moon with happiness…
at first glance a wall
but a visage lovelier
for weathered sculpture
beyond the surface
freshness – shadows and depth
beguile and confuse
In 1967 I worked part-time as a Special Effects helper on a TV game show at the Beeb – the BBC, or British Broadcasting Corporation – where I saw crosswords and heard cross words. Continue reading
Browsing through the March pages in my 1986 diary, I found a tasty entry. I had just finished a horrible job at Bandar-e-Taheri, on the Persian Gulf, in Iran. I was there to supervise drilling exploration for a proposed oil terminal. The job was horrible for several reasons, none of them due to being in Iran, or working with Iranians. Rather, it was a lot to do with working with some unlikeable ex-pats. And the food was dreadful. And I was sick (as was almost everybody in the construction camp, including the doctor) due to some mix-up between sewage water and drinking water… Continue reading
blue me, wandering beside blue canal -
I laugh at a hawsered laundry of
bicycles:
bicycles everywhere; stacked, leaning, piled, jumbled in scrums
yet these two, almost kissing
a chaste synapse separating blue and
red:
red lights, not chaste, yet separated from me
by the synapse of canal and too little money
so: blue me
Amsterdam images, compressed into poesy, from vagabond visits in 1985 and 1986
“4-6-2!”.”4-4-4!” “Little sod! Bugger off!”. These expressions still chuff in my ears 50 or so years after I first heard them, as a trainspotter. Continue reading
