The boots up on my feet made many dread
To see my body without any head.
Who was allowed inside the Tower that day?
With her life the lady had to pay.
The adults in her life had a feet of clay.
Is there any humble person who can pray?
I would like to write a book instead.
Light a fire and find out who is dead.
God preserve the humble from decay.
Why did Shakespeare write so many plays?
Would you wish to be the Lady Jane?
At risk of being murdered if she fails
In truth she had a short and trying reign
Her tears fell down like clouds of steady rain
When Mary Tudor caused a fearsome gale
Would you wish to be the Lady Jane?
Her emotions hurt an agile but strange brain
As the Queen she had been sometime hailed
In truth she had a short and startling reign
She was valued less than turgid drains
There are no photos but her face was pale
0h,would you have liked to meet the Lady Jane
She should not have married Guildford in disdain
Better to await the holy grail
She had an almost non-existent reign
They did not let you from the Tower on bail.
Nor provide a boat in which to sail
They made the Lady Jane into a clown.
How much further could you travel down ?
I’d like to have good memories of you
If you have to go before I do.
I’d like to see you smiling at the cat.
I’d like to see you wearing your straw hat
And smiling on the terrace as you eat
How you loved the garden and herbs sweet.
You smiled so well I did not realise
That you were giving me your last goodbye
Lately I have been loaned by providence a graceful beautiful cat.Early on he was a shrinking, hunched and nervous creature who slept by the back door on the daily newspaper.He ate hungrily and drank water with a drop of milk.
He was reluctant for a couple of weeks to venture further but as the tranquil peaceful time went by he began to sleep on a towel by the hall radiator and eventually on my knee.
The most striking change was in his size.As he ate more and was petted more he relaxed so that when stretched by the fire ,more of his body was in contact with the floor and he looked larger all over.He was loosened up and comfortable.
If he were human I might say he had a good mother.He is affectionate and initially I feared his demands might be excessive.When he came onto my bed I was concerned.But after five minutes of being stroked he went off to his own place again.
Sometimes when he’s been out in the garden he reappears with an air of humorous triumph as if he has worked a miracle to enter through his door.Another time when I was reading in a different room from the usual one he appeared mid morning with a face full of more expression than I can easily put into words.
He was anxious and relieved,puzzled and afraid,happy and a touch angry with me.How can you do this to me? was his query.Suppose you had gone altogether?Oh,the insecurity of being a tame cat.
I wonder why cats do not miss their own species.Or maybe they meet them outsi
de.Often though they fight to defend their territory but fortunately they have no WMD as yet.I like to read and stroke him as I muse over my book,
insecurity
[in-si-kyoo r-i-tee]
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noun, plural insecurities.
1.
lack of confidence or assurance; self-doubt:
He is plagued by insecurity.
2.
the quality or state of being insecure; instability:
the insecurity of her financial position.
3.
something insecure :
the many insecurities of life.
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Medieval Latin
1640-16501640-50; < Medieval Latin insēcūritās. See insecure, -ity
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2. precariousness, shakiness, vulnerability.
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Contemporary Examples
Bridges talks to Caryn James about his insecurity —and how acting is like being born again.
December 11, 2009
Nor can the hardening of positions in Israel can be attributed to Israeli insecurity.
Reading Lustick Carefully
Jerry Haber
September 19, 2013
Never has indecision, infidelity, and insecurity seemed quite so tangible.
July 18, 2012
In addition to insecurity, those arriving in refugee camps cited forced recruitment as one of their main concerns.
Islamist Group Al-Shabab Retreats From Somali Stronghold
Laura Heaton
September 29, 2012
Her daily missives chronicle the longing and insecurity that often befall long-distance relationships and eventual breakups.
December 17, 2012
Historical Examples
It was this sense of doubt and insecurity in the nation that gave significance to trifles.
The Age of Pope
John Dennis
This ignorance of the foe’s whereabouts carried with it a sense of insecurity.
A Set of Six
Joseph Conrad
Argenson saw the storm coming, and feeling the insecurity of his position, wished to save himself.
The Memoirs of Louis XIV., His Court and The Regency, Complete
Duc de Saint-Simon
This ignorance of his adversary’s whereabouts carried with it a sense of insecurity.
The Point Of Honor
Joseph Conrad
In times of insecurity the Kai used to build their huts for safety among the spreading boughs of great trees.
The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3)
Sir James George Frazer
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n.
1640s, from Medieval Latin insecuritas, from insecurus (see insecure ). Specific psychological sense is by 1917.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/safety/online-privacy/avoid-phone-scams.aspx
Cybercriminals don’t just send fraudulent email messages. They might call you on the telephone and claim to be from Microsoft. They might also setup websites with persistent pop-ups displaying fake warning messages and a phone number to call and get the “issue” fixed. They might offer to help solve your computer problems or sell you a software license. Once they have access to your computer, they can do the following:
“Remember, Microsoft will never proactively reach out to you to provide unsolicited PC or technical support. Any communication we have with you must be initiated by you.”
Below is more information on what to look out for with telephone and web pop-up scams and how to report them:
Telephone support scams – What you need to know
Scam Pop-Ups: What You Need to Know
How to report tech support scams
How to protect yourself from tech support scams
What to do if you already gave information to a tech support person
Microsoft does not make unsolicited phone calls to help you fix your computer”
Why do the Palestinians and now the US see that as a problem?
Settlements have already made it considerably more difficult to envisage a Palestinian state, not least because the huge apparatus of roads, military infrastructure and protected land that services them – an estimated 40 per cent of the West Bank in all – which helps to cut the occupied territory into separate cantons and often swallows up Palestinian farmland. Second, opponents of settlements argue that they have had a profoundly negative effect on the peace process, put at its most extreme by Amos Elon, the Israeli writer who died this week and in 2002 wrote: “Imagine the effect on the peace process in Northern Ireland if the British government continued moving thousands of Protestants from Scotland into Ulster and settling them, at government expense, on land confiscated from Irish Catholics…”
Inevitably that effect is magnified the more they are allowed to grow. Which is why Palestinian President Abbas, who saw President Obama yesterday, has been arguing he won’t negotiate with Israel until there is a freeze.
When first I came to London town
They said I did not fit
My accent was too foreign
And I had no English wit.
My ancestors were Viking folk
Celts and Saxons too
And possibly I’m Roman
And possibly you are too.
Why the wish to classify
To control and to divide?
A lot of insecurity
A handful of false pride.
If England is divided
We need an enemy
.Who shall be the enemy?
Is it either you or me?
Democracy can break and bend
Democracy can fall.
Perhaps we were all misled
By the Berlin wall.
Hidden in defences now
We cannot see too well.
We see the shadows flickering
The cave’s a prison cell.
Blinded by anxiety
By insecurity
Let’s take off our eye masks now
To see what we should see.
The leaves are almost black against the sky
The sun is very bright but hidden by
The branches of the trees the twigs awry.
The breeze in humid air contains a sigh.
How my heart sings 