Day: March 29, 2016

That places value on the good of all.

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There is a sense that permeates our souls
That places value on the good of all.
Humankind is viewed then as a whole.
Blame not allocated to  a Fall.

Shall we believe that God can sulk for aeons
That he will torment  creatures for their sin?
Such theories are dilemmas to our brains
And put us in a  race we cannot win.

Should Eve and Adam still be here on earth
If  on that plum they had not sucked and bit?
It makes our lives seem to have little worth
To take this as a given in Holy Writ.

For  life’s for adults, not for girls and boys.
Do “Christian” theories take the place of toys?

By a leaf

I am a gleaming aubergine
in an oval dish
My purple skin is polished
Like BBC English.

I await my fate for I am ripe
My seeds fulfil my wish
Soon,soon the knife will cut me up
As corn in fields is threshed.

I’d rather lie in Egypt’s soil
By birds and insects bit
But here I am in England
Where irony is wit.

After cutting comes the salt
As in a bowl I sit
For I am moist like lady’s parts
As poets have much writ.

Moussaka is my destiny
And as you bite and chew
I shall  be  what Jesus was
And give my grace to you

I am fried in olive oil
To give me flavour ripe.
Dried in cloth and placed in pot
Atop the meat I ride.

 

My colour  brings all eyes to me
As I lie in a heap.
Some like carrot heads so bright
Royal purple is my state.

So better than a lamb I am
For a sacrifice.
I am proud and gleam  like gold
As Caesar-like I’m knifed.

 

My seeds through sewers deep shall pass
And somewhere come to grief.
I shall grow again and be
Portrayed by a leaf.

Paragraph? From two dictionaries

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Paragraph from British Dictionary
/ˈpærəˌɡrɑːf; -ˌɡræf/

noun

1.

(in a piece of writing) one of a series of subsections each usuallydevoted to one idea and each usually marked by the beginning of a new line, indentation, increased interlinear space, etc

2.

(printing) the character ¶, used as a reference mark or to indicate thebeginning of a new paragraph

3.

a short article in a newspaper

verb (transitive)

4.

to form into paragraphs

5.

to express or report in a paragraph
Derived Forms
paragraphic (ˌpærəˈɡræfɪk), paragraphical, adjective
paragraphically, adverb
Word Origin
C16: from Medieval Latin paragraphus, from Greek paragraphos line drawing attention to part of a text, from paragraphein to write beside, from para- 1 + graphein to write
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Word Origin and History for paragraph
n.

late 15c., from Middle French paragraphe “division of text” (13c., Old French paragrafe), from Medieval Latin paragraphus “sign for start of a new section of discourse” (the sign looked something like a stylized letter -P-),from Greek paragraphos “short stroke in the margin marking a break insense,” also “a passage so marked,” literally “anything written beside,”from paragraphein “write by the side,” from para- “beside” (see para- (1))+ graphein “to write” (see -graphy ).

Minimise your wardrobe:my unattainable desire

If you have no car  then you need a warm coat in most countries in Northern Europe or the USA.This may cause you to faint in over-heated shops.So don’t go into big shops and get groceries on-line.Otherwise get a coat you can take off and fold up.It may have to be a dressing gown!My husband once went shopping in his for a dare.

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If you choose the right fabric many clothes are wearable  all the year round in theory

HINTS:layer

Needle-cord trousers/skirts are versatile year round
Jeans can be too hot in summer but chinos are ok
Denim sleeveless dresses.With/without polo-neck underneath
Cotton sweaters.
Trenchcoat
Sandals suitable for evening or beach e.g .Gold/silver.
Shoes with high front are warmer and more supportive.
Denim wide brimmed  hat.Can be a sun hat
Cotton/ silk scarves.
T shirts in basic colours.
Cotton socks
Long nightdresses can be summer dresses but may be transparent.

SLEEPWEAR

sleep nude
sleep in cat basket
sleep in partner#s pyjamas,arms,pillowcase
sleep in underwear
sleep in petticoat
sleep in tracksuit
sleep fully dressed to get off to a quick,sweaty start [get a deodorant,it’s cheaper than pyjamas]

Stan and the gooseberries

A cat from england
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Poppies in england
  • After Mary went off to the Oxfam shop with a bag of odd shoes Stan decided to clean his laptop.
    He was trying to open the plastic box of Screen Cleaning Tissues and wondering if he could have used a damp microfibre cloth instead.He was feeling excited because he was going to take Mary away for the weekend to a Pie Museum on the Lincolnshire coast.
    There was a knock on the back door.He saw Lisa
    and Tom,two students from Knittingham University.Tom’s grandmother was a friend of Stan’s.”Hello,”said Tom,”this is Lisa Stoat my girlfriend.””Hello,Lisa.How are you?And where do you come from?”I’m fine,thanks.I believe my mum found me under a gooseberry bush near the A19 to Teesside.She’d been out rambling with the gypsies.Anyway she met my dad when I was 2.He’s doctor   in Stockton.,he adopted me and several other children my mother found from time to time out in the country.There are six of us now.There are lots of gooseberry bushes on Tees-side.”
    “Thank you for that,Lisa.”
    “Please don’t mention it; you are more than welcome!”
    “Would you like some gooseberry pie.”
    “Yes,I’m ravenous.” the girl replied shyly.
    “Well,you know you are a growing girl.” Stan chuntered “I’m afraid I can’t find the cakeforks”
    “That’s a pity,” replied  Tom.”I’ve never seen a cake fork in my life.” “Oh,goodness,”Stan called.”What did you do?”
    “Well,we used a pick axe to cut the pies up and then lay on the floor and grabbed bits with our teeth.!”
    “Where you raised by cats?”Stan cried querulously.
    “To a certain extent,”the boy honestly admitted.”But I can use a knife and fork now for meat and veg and also I can now use a lavatory rather than digging a hole in the soil or using a plant pot.”
    “Have you thought of writing your autobiography?”
    “I feel I’m a bit young for that and the cats, Lucy and Mario, might be offended.”
    “Can they read?” “Not yet but I’m doing phonics with them. the government recommends that according to the News of the Failed.”
    “But not for cats,surely?”
    “Well,you win some you lose some!” Tom answered with the unique and riginal turn of phrase typical of one raised by cats.
    Lisa got over. excited.”You could call it “A tale of two Kittiesb”” she cried hysterically.
    “Oh,my God.Is she bipolar?” Stan thought anxiously.
    “But what would Professor Fittsgenstein think?”
    “I rarely think,” said a man who had crept into the kitchen through the cat flap.”And I have to confess that I too was partially raised by cats.”
    “Welcome.Professor”, they all shouted
    “What a coincidence!”
    “Well,”said Annie, who had been listening through the keyhole,”It’s very common in Knittinghamshire you know.The mortgages are so big,both parents have to work so they have no alternative but to leave the children at home with the cats.They all learn to mioaw which can be useful.” She then gave a loud”mioaw”
    I’d better ring 999 “Stan whispered.”I think she is going mad.”
    “Oh,no” Tom stated,”If you could enter into the narrative of her life and reach the place where she is you would see it all makes perfect sense.”
    “What even the thick layers of makeup and the TKMaxx perfume.” “Yes,indeed.”
    “Didn’t Schopenhauer advise against about pretending to be someone other than your true self?”
    “I’m sorry but we have only reached pi and the Ancient Greeks.Is Philosophy meant to help you with real life problems?”
    “What sort of pie did they eat?”Stan wondered anxiously.
    “I guess maybe apricot or peach,”said Lisa.
    “Well,I have the Fanni Far Mer cookery book here.I’ll look it up.”
    “But she’s American? poor Lisa said peevishly
    “I thought she was a Turk!”
    “What about Gud How Ski Ping?”
    “Yes,I do like the Chinese.”
    Then Stan fell out of bed and landed on the rug.It was 4am.”I blame that cheese pie.” he thought mutinously.
    Read more in the News of the Failed out a week on Sunday

Terza rima sonnet.

Another original creation of Dante, the terza rima sonnet is a rare but superb form that blends four quatrains and a rhyming couplet with a terza rima rhyme scheme. The most noteworthy example is in one of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s most famous poems, “Ode to the West Wind.”

Ode to the West Wind

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/174401 [for the entire poem]

BY PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY

I
O wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn’s being,
Thou, from whose unseen presence the leaves dead
Are driven, like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing,
Yellow, and black, and pale, and hectic red,
Pestilence-stricken multitudes: O thou,
Who chariotest to their dark wintry bed
The winged seeds, where they lie cold and low,
Each like a corpse within its grave, until
Thine azure sister of the Spring shall blow
Her clarion o’er the dreaming earth, and fill
(Driving sweet buds like flocks to feed in air)
With living hues and odours plain and hill:
Wild Spirit, which art moving everywhere;
Destroyer and preserver; hear, oh hear!

What are sonnets?

Examples of Sonnets : Poetry through the Ages: From Sonnets
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

From fairest creatures we desire increase,
That thereby beauty’s rose might never die.
But as the riper should by time decease,
His tender heir might bear his memory:
But thou, contracted to thine own bright eyes,
Feed’st thy light’s flame with self-substantial fuel,
Making a famine where abundance lies,
Thyself thy foe, to thy sweet self too cruel.
Thou that art now the world’s fresh ornament
And only herald to the gaudy spring,
Within thine own bud buriest thy content
And, tender churl, mak’st waste in niggarding.
Pity the world, or else this glutton be,
To eat the world’s due, by the grave and th

Emile and St Valentine

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Stan was feeling so puzzled.He stood in his front room staring at the rowan tree outside.

Do ants fall in love,he asked himself.
Are swans the most beautiful birds?
Shall I send Annie a card tomorrow?
Should I send Mary one as well?
He went outside and watched the ants running up and down the tree trunk.
They seem to work so hard but they never get bored.
But is this true? We have no way of knowing.
At last Stan has found a question with no answer.
Is boredom a unique quality of humans?
If that were so we ought to have a Patron Saint of Boredom
though not of Bores.
Why are some people so boring?
Luckily Annie had seen Stan and rushed out in a teal coloured all wool outfit
made more weird by having butterfly motifs scattered on it at random.
“Why have you got those butterflies on your clothes ?”
he asked her in a silly way.
“It’s to cover up the moth holes.”She pertly replied.
“You must have a lot of moths.Do moths fall in love?
do they get bored?”
“You seem in a funny mood today,”Annie murmured.
“Why don’t we go out for coffee?”
“I’ve just made a pot full.Please join me.”
“Thank you,” she cried wildly.
They sat down in the kitchen where Emile was sitting by the window.
“Good morning,Emile.”Annie shouted.
“No need to shout,” Emile miaowed politely.”I’m not deaf”.
“I am sorry, Emile.” she responded furtively,”I am over-excited.”
“Why is that? Stan demanded like an untrained philosopher.
“Well,I’ve already had ten Valentines.
“Already.You must have done it fast!” he teased her gently.
“No,you idiot.I mean cards.
“You must be popular”
“Some look like women’s writing.”
“Let me see,”he asked swiftly.
To his surprise, one was in the handwriting of his wife Mary.
“Are you bisexual?” he asked her wonderingly.
“No,I’m just annissexual,” she repliied saucily.
“What does that mean?”
“Well,it’s just one letter away from “Anti-sexual.”
“That’s a relief.You are not anti yet,then.”
“Not yet”,she whispered coyly.
“Would you make love to a woman?”
“Only if she made love to me.”
Mmmmmmmmmmmm
.Apparently seeing lesbian movies turns men on.do you watch them?”
“Not bloody likely,I want to get turned off.”
“That could be boring,”she said sweetly as she combed his eyebrows with an old toothbrush.
“Well,I could do the polishing better and get the house sorted out.Fill the freezer with casseroles and defrost the oven.
Yes,though would that be so rewarding as loving another human?
“I guess not” he answered slavishly.
“Shall we go to your place and have a cuddle.
OK
Emile was very put out as he liked to see people kissing but he had grown very philosophical over the years and at least he could get on with his book,
“Wittgenstein’s cat.”
He switched on the netbook and began to type:
“Not everyone knows how important cats were in philosophy.But now we can reveal all.The saying,
“Of that which we cannot speak we must miaow”
was inspired by Daisy,Wittgenstein;s favourite cat.
And,”Of that which we cannot purr we must yowl.” was inspired by Ludo, a fine male cat that lived with wittgenstein in Ireland.
So as Emile types,we must tiptoe away

What is a sentence?

How to dress for summer

 

1.Wear a skirt and top.You can put a clean top on and wear the skirt for longer..Ironing a dress is time consuming.Also if it turns cool you can wear a watmer T shirt.
2.Wear dresses made from a non-iron fabric.However these may be too warm/sweaty..
3.Don’t wear jeans.They are too hot and need washing and ironing frequently.If you wear tencel ones they are cooler.But need ironing.
4.Try to get a cotton mac or duster coat.They are better than polyester in warm weather.The fashion is for pattterns.
5.Sandals may be dangerous in towns if they are open toed.You can get shoes with ventilation openings from Hotters etc.
6.Try to get garments with pockets in.Maybe a man’s linen jacket?Saves carrying a handbag.
7.If you wear  petticoats it keeps your clothes cleaner.But they need to be  at least 50% cotton
8.Must  have cotton night wear and sheets
9.We don’t  absolutely need to wash our clothes after one wearing except for white tops etc.
10.Maybe your partner likes ironing?
11.Maybe you can afford to use an ironing service?