People have been calling to Theresa May to go.Demonstrations and anger after the lack of response to the terrible fire.I just hope other tower blocks are not as dangerous as that one which was full of poorer people and refugees living close to the wealthier folks so they put the cladding on to make it looks smarter.Appearances are all
That’s how our rulers see the poor /us.I agree that May is no leader.I think she ought to have resigned after the Election.She can’t do Brexit now!

Painting by my sister
I have never seen this word before.I have looked ot up and will put a link here

http://visual-memory.co.uk/daniel/Documents/S4B/sem03.html

“A syntagm is an orderly combination of interacting signifiers which forms a meaningful whole within a text – sometimes, following Saussure, called a ‘chain’. Such combinations are made within a framework of syntactic rules and conventions (both explicit and inexplicit). In language, a sentence, for instance, is a syntagm of words; so too are paragraphs and chapters. ‘There are always larger units, composed of smaller units, with a relation of interdependence holding between both’ (Saussure 1983, 127; Saussure 1974, 128): syntagms can contain other syntagms. A printed advertisement is a syntagm of visual signifiers. Syntagmatic relations are the various ways in which elements within the same text may be related to each other. Syntagms are created by the linking of signifiers from paradigm sets which are chosen on the basis of whether they are conventionally regarded as appropriate or may be required by some rule system (e.g. grammar). Synatagmatic relations highlight the importance of part-whole relationships: Saussure stressed that ‘the whole depends on the parts, and the parts depend on the whole’ (Saussure 1983, 126;Saussure 1974, 128).

Syntagms are often defined as ‘sequential’ (and thus temporal – as in speech and music), but they can represent spatial relationships. Saussure himself (who emphasized ‘auditory signifiers’ which ‘are presented one after another’ and ‘form a chain’) noted that visual signifiers (he instanced nautical flags) ‘can exploit more than one dimension simultaneously’ (Saussure 1983, 70; Saussure 1974, 70). Spatial syntagmatic relations are found in drawing, painting and photography. Many semiotic systems – such as drama, cinema, television and the world wide web – include both spatial and temporal syntagms.

Thwaites et al. argue that within a genre, whilst the syntagmatic dimension is the textual structure, the paradigmatic dimension can be as broad as the choice of subject matter (Thwaites et al. 1994, 95). In this framing, form is a syntagmatic dimension whilst content is a paradigmatic dimension. However, form is also subject to paradigmatic choices and content to syntagmatic arrangement.

Jonathan Culler offers an example of the syntagmatic relations and paradigmatic contrasts involved in Western menus:

• • In the food system… one defines on the syntagmatic axis the combinations of courses which can make up meals of various sorts; and each course or slot can be filled by one of a number of dishes which are in paradigmatic contrast with one another (one wouldn’t combine roast beef and lamb chops in a single meal; they would be alternatives on any menu). These dishes which are alternative to one another often bear different meanings in that they connote varying degrees of luxury, elegance, etc.”

(Culler 1985, 104)

I can’t quite grasp it but I shall try!

• • .

My appetite for news has slunk away
See people throwing babies from the tower
The only action I  can take is prayer

On the ground,  where many flowers are laid
Relatives of the  victims  stand for hours
My appetite for news has slunk away

I saw the red plume rising in the air
The smoke and smell destroy the offered flower
The only action I  can take is prayer

The number of the dead increased today
Many  lie reduced to ash upstairs
My appetite for news has slunk away

Over London hangs a cloud of grey
No shades but sorrow, rage  shall flare
The only action I  can take is prayer

Oh, has the News shocked edgy Mrs May
We must hold both  violence and despair
My appetite for news has slunk away
The only way we can survive  is prayer

Roast grief and tripe with jam tomorrow
Pubic Lamb’s hair with mint followers
Christian lamb with gravy boat and china flea pot
Tongue in cheek with salad  dressing
Toad in hole with vegetarian sausage  plus mashed piranhas
Ironic beans on throat plus GP call out charge
Tonsils on mashed potatoes with green face

Egg jelly and bastard [male]
Lime instant whip with real creme and elastoplast.
Disposable Yoghurt Fright and valium
Trifle from Russia with Putin’s autogrip and cream [sour]
Sponge Trump Tower with jam,cream  and rifle [air]

recht

I spent an hour in shelter from the sun
My parasol arrived and all was gay
But very soon a naughty wind had come
And blown my garden parasol away

Abandoning my seat beside the Rose,
My papers blown around like little leaves
I fled indoors, the victim  of a ghost
For on hot days he follows me bereaved.

So in the living room, I drank hot tea
A  young man brought a parcel to the door
I saw  rich leaves and branches valiantly
Add movement to the scene I thought forlorn

A  garden gnome out there  does not  want me
To smile when others suffer misery

As I spell, by semiotics drained
I wonder if I’m wrong to write, explain
The rose unread, the apple not yet born
A poet reveals her mind, which draws down storms

Better be a scientist than a poet
Negative, uncertain, when she wrote
A lab with nuclei all dead and still
The world has ended, death by overkill

Not I but someone in me seems to choose
What I write of, what I might well leave
Else obsessional I’d be found here still
Having lost the power of choice and will.

Can we trust the silence and the voice?
Humbly, we must kneel before this choice

http://www.signsalad.com/semiotics-explained/

Semiotics explained

Semiotics is an investigation into how meaning is created and how meaning is communicated. Its origins lie in the academic study of how signs and symbols (visual and linguistic) create meaning.

It is a way of seeing the world, and of understanding how the landscape and culture in which we live has a massive impact on all of us unconsciously.

Our actions and thoughts – what we do automatically – are often governed by a complex set of cultural messages and conventions, and dependent upon our ability to interpret them instinctively and instantly.

For instance, when we see the different colours of a traffic light, we automatically know how to react to them. We know this without even thinking about it. But this is a sign which has been established by cultural convention over a long period of time and which we learn as children, and requires a deal of unconscious cultural knowledge to understand its meaning.

Viewing and interpreting (or decoding) this sign enables us to navigate the landscape of our streets and society.

It is very hot here today which makes it harder for the people in the fire-torn block.I went ahead and erected my garden parasol as I have not sat outside for 3 years.We used to eat there.I was thinking, here is me in my garden and all the poor folk are crammed into dangerous buildings which I think must be uncomfortable even normally.My perennial geraniums have run wild.I can’t manage to download the photos yst

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f you live in West London the Red Cross say they need blankets the most,Clothes as well.This puts things into perspective.

London suffers  more catastrophe
As  screams awaken sleepers in this tower
A high rise block with only one exit
Oh, many now will take their mourning flowers.

Some  have made the SOS sign now
Seen by people standing in the street
The firefighters are not allowed  inside
So soon it will be death these people meet

Who designed these cheap and dangerous flats?
I can’t believe they had no fire exits
Was the Referendum a cheap vote?
Will we be asked to suffer through Brexit?

These cheap flats  brought death to many folk
To leave the EU  now seems but a jape.

The seed of God is in us.
Given an intelligent farmer and a faithful field hand,
it will thrive and grow up to God
whose seed it is and, accordingly,
its fruit will be God-nature.
Pear seeds grow into pear trees.
Nut seeds grow into nut trees.
God-seeds into God.
 
Go to the depths of the soul,
the secret place of the Most High,
to the roots,
to the heights.
For everything that God can do,
is there.

Meister Eckhart, Christian mystic, Germany (1260-1328)

• Been awful scary  in the night
• Bees were forgiven by wasps
• Be not a maid without a head
• It’s still my soul what heals
• Do Thou My Revision
• Before the Sun Burned Bright
• Blessed are aspirins
• Testicles for women now
• Obstacles  for the blessed detergents
• I’m tickling  the free children.I’m a gnat
• Why bees were right
• Go  brown, O loaf insane
• Come, wholesome toast
• Come, hordes, and marry not
• See my pay, my proof, my lies
• Come, rejoice before your baker
• Come,  those Holy Spirits, Come. I’ll have brandy, he wants rum
• Come, come, come to the Mersey
• Fall over Niagara

Catholic priest giving Absolution to a man murdered by the British Army on Bloody Sunday 1972

Donald Trump looks orange on TV.And Theresa May wants to link up with a political party in Northern Ireland who were once called Orange men.They are Unionists,Protestants, who are called after William of Orange who ruled Great Britain with his wife Mary, the daughter of James the 2nd. She was a  Protestant.James was a Catholic and he had a son who would take the throne.William of Orange’s mother was the daughter of Charles 1st.
William invaded England and  ruled with his wife.Some places like Ireland wanted  James to be King.He was defeated at the Battle of the Boyne.
Many of the horrors that happened in Northern Ireland began when Orange men led huge parades through Catholic areas.One day Catholics demanded the right to vote  like the blacks in the USA but this was about 1969.You could only vote if you owned a house…. Catholics were poor.
On Bloody  Sunday English troops shot civilians holding a peaceful march

Wikipedia:

Bloody Sunday – sometimes called the Bogside Massacre^[1] – was an incident on 30 January 1972 in the Bogside area of Derry, Northern Ireland, when British soldiers shot 28 unarmed civilians during a peaceful protest march against internment. Fourteen people died: thirteen were killed outright, while the death of another man four months later was attributed to his injuries. Many of the victims were shot while fleeing from the soldiers and some were shot while trying to help the wounded. Other protesters were injured by rubber bullets or batons, and two were run down by army vehicles.^[2][3] The march had been organised by the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association (NICRA). The soldiers involved were members of the 1st Battalion, Parachute Regiment, also known as “1 Para”.^[4]

Two investigations have been held by the British government. The Widgery Tribunal, held in the immediate aftermath of the incident, largely cleared the soldiers and British authorities of blame. It described the soldiers’ shooting as “bordering on the reckless”, but accepted their claims that they shot at gunmen and bomb-throwers. The report was widely criticised as a “whitewash“.^[5][6][7]The Saville Inquiry, chaired by Lord Saville of Newdigate, was established in 1998 to reinvestigate the incident. Following a 12-year inquiry, Saville’s report was made public in 2010 and concluded that the killings were both “unjustified” and “unjustifiable”. It found that all of those shot were unarmed, that none were posing a serious threat, that no bombs were thrown, and that soldiers “knowingly put forward false accounts” to justify their firing.^[8][9] On the publication of the report, British prime minister David Cameron made a formal apology on behalf of the United Kingdom.^[10] Following this, police began a murder investigation into the killings.

Bloody Sunday was one of the most significant events of “the Troubles” because a large number of civilian citizens were killed, by forces of the state, in full view of the public and the press.^[1] It was the highest number of people killed in a single shooting incident during the conflict.^[11] Bloody Sunday increased Catholic and Irish nationalist hostility towards the British Army

One of my friends was there.She testified.She moved to England.

I am crying now

In the sudden heat of a June day
The bench beside the roses seemed set right.
We sat and talked about the flowers so gay,
and whether Love is visible to sight.

The flowers seemed more beautiful and rare
Than any flower I've dared my eyes rest on.
I welcomed them with bold yet merry stare.
Ah,all too soon bright summer will be gone.

The sun was at the apex of the sky.
We caught the moment like a netted fish.
And as we looked the broad white clouds blew by.
All we can do is wish and wish and wish.

Now back to marking essays,making tea.
I lived so well because you so loved me.

Momentous changes stunned the  British  lords
Deceived by  numbers and the frequent polls
We deprived them of their  powers and of their voice

They thought they had it fixed, we had no choice
The game has changed, the young demanded balls.
Momentous changes stunned the  British  lords

Now they scurry, looking for new words
Their script is finished, gone their hateful goals.
We deprived them of their  powers and of their voice

Now a new play starts and they run scared
Our politics is not  for them alone
Momentous changes stunned the  British  lords

The referendum  made the racists  heard
Since the Brexit vote, most people groan
We deprived our rulers of their  powers, their voice

Now the truth is out, the cover’s blown
And Europe laughs to hear  our rulers moan
Momentous changes stun the  British   hordes
As we barbecue  our burgers with hot words

Two million people “live” in the Gaza strip.They have electricity only 4 hours a day.That is to be cut by 45 minutes.This includes hospitals and desalination plants used because water is very short.It makes me wonder how those people survive.Imagine that for just one week
Apparently, Abbas has asked Israel to do this to put more pressure in Hamas but so far he has not succeeded.Should Israel be taking part in such a  thing? It beggars belief

Mike Flemming