Use an electric powered back brush in the bath
Take a boiling hot cup of coffee into your hand when you feel faint
Ride your brake-less bike along a dual carriageway. as fast as you can.
Warm your feet on the back of a tiger in the zoo then run for your life
Let a beginner take driving lessons in your new car
Never insure your house
Never  check your bank account
Never read this column
While making chips  smoke a cigar
When the cat is angry try to kiss her
Smoke in bed and charge your tablet under the duvet
Keep your i phone under the pillow and dribble.
Let a man you  don’t know   read your hand

Buy a motor-home  to Europe   go
Soon there will  be built a  British Wall
I know, they know, we know, you know

See the Concentration Camps,enjoy
Buy a reproduction of the Fall
Buy a motor-home,  to Europe  go

Go to France, where is the Maginot?
See the Europeans in our thrall
I know, they know, we know, you  know

See the Rhine and Rhone and how they flow
Hear the people  laughing at our calls
Buy a motor-home,  and to Europe  go

Churchill bombed out Dresden in the War
Even great men’s deeds  will us appal
I know, they know, we know,  who knows?

 By the hands of   politicians mauled
Beetles on our breasts will shortly crawl
Buy a motor-home,  to Europe  never go
I know, they know, we know,   he knows?

When we think of what’s inside  our skin
The sacred heart and the  most precious blood
The fire that burns alone without  new wood
The still small voice, the  mind and soul within

The systematic violence  of our kin
The  burning  church, the  holy books in flames
While  the leaders swagger  and play games
Unmoved, they kill  our culture as  protection

Yet the mother  will protect her child
Would that we could do the same for all the world
Your love mine and  all the earth’s divine
Would that we  had not  so long defiled.

And as the curtain falls across the stage
Would that  life was real and we engaged

Hand upturned

Image by Katherine

I realise it did not tell men how to keep warm in winter.It might be easier for them if they can buy trousers made of wool or thick cord.And we have heard that policeman wear tights under their trousers! You can get long legged underpants and woollen vests
With a shirt and jumper and a warm coat,you will be quite hot.
That is the problem.If you have central heating and a car you don’t have to stand at a bus stop in icy winds.
If you dress warmly and then go into a shop like M&S it can be uncomfortable.I nearly fainted once.
Don’t wear a balaclava especially if there is no backstop