Yes, the Trent flows up one side and down the other.

lake

Pray Father give me your blessing
Good grief, a real Catholic at last
Why, are there artificial ones?
No they just have terrible memories
Of trauma?
No, they don’t know what a sacrament is.
But surely how we act is more vital
I don’t know, it’s so long since I was in the cemetery
Do you mean the cement factory?
Why would I mean that?
Don’t ask me,I’m just a human being
I mean the seminary, of course.I remember now.
Do you know the seven deadly sins?
Not biblically
They are in the Bible… murder.envy, hatred
Yes, I was joking.I am celibate officially.
But what are you really?
I am asexual.
Do you have no desire?
I love people but I have no need to go to bed with them
No, we do it on the floor at home
Are you married?
Yes,definitely.She is a red head.
I thought you might say Red Indian
We have very few living in Stoke on Trent.
Where is that?
On the river Trent.
But that goes through Nottingham
So?
I thought Stoke was West of the Pennines
Yes, the Trent flows up one side and down the other.
That is a lie
Thank you.
Since my last Confession I have lied twice
What was the other lie?
I am not a Catholic
So why come here?
I am lonely and it’s bad for me so I thought Saturday night Catholics go to Confession
It’s not exactly fun.Why not go to the pub and pick up a woman?
Are you really a priest?
No,I was feeling lonely too
What a pity we are not bisexual
Well, we could learn
I thought it was genetic?
Do you mean generic
I don’t know.You mean like,buy paracetomol not panadol?
Genetic is totally different.
Am I a generic human or a dressed up, artificial and stunning person?
Why artificial?
I can’t act natural.
Try!
But if I try it’s not natural.
Was that my penance listening to you?
It could have been.Say a little prayer for me as well
So you do believe?
Why not? It’s better than dying of meaninglessness
You so seem very clever
How kind.
I’ll see you next week.

The northern hills

I wish I were in Arkengarth again

The fierceness of the sheep, the ancient dale.

I want to be with you and it will  rain

I want the pale gold sun, I want the gales.

The earthen privy with  its own two seats

The herbs and flowers growing all around.

The music in the pub, its⁰ Northern beat

It’s good to set the feet on Northern ground.

We went across the Pennines in the car.

The Western side is fiercer in its threat

Here we are in Kendal with its stone

Where’s Penrith with Ullswater beside?

I’d like to sail by steamer waterborne

I’d like to see  Helvellyn, but not stride

Here I am in London in the sun What is ending here up there began.

Before my husband died he kept wanting to see the sea or the northern hills and could not be comforted.

He had a very peaceful ending despite that lack

Menu for mad native of UK

Art by Katherine

Fried frogs on a bed of lice with free desert and Bedouin prisoner
Scottish moles and salad with hot flatbread from Gaza & strip
English Enema with free water and wafers and Syrian Refugee
Welsh Wrabbit grilled on West Bank of Thames plus Binoculars and Gun
Scottish Sausage with alimony tossed in lemon juice and oil
HP Sauce on Macaroni in butter with Russian Cheesefake

Fried Fish with chip on boulder of Galilee with boat
German Green Goose with mesh of potato free to engage
Grumbling Grand Gorse with spikes and dressing and free Baptism
Spanish Hamlet with chunky chips and a pack of cards with Joker
Linear Equations of Spaghetti with photo of salad Macbeth
Matrix of Pasta in green gauze with free wound and needle
Hindu Blessing and free food for all who smile
Cherry Tree blessed by God plus Rice and Nuts and free Tea
Irish plight and potato free
to all

Hamlet: Important Quotes Explained | SparkNotes

https://www.sparknotes.com/shakespeare/hamlet/quotes/page/5/

Who would these fardels bear,
To grunt and sweat under a weary life,
But that the dread of something after death,—
The undiscover’d country, from whose bourn
No traveller returns,—puzzles the will,
And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to others that we know not of?
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all;
And thus the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied o’er with the pale cast of thought;
And enterprises of great pith and moment,
With this regard, their currents turn awry,
And lose the name of action

The West Pennines

Hennetwistle has a railway stop
The name is Viking now it’s usually spelled
Entwistle, where reservoirs fill up
Manchester wants water, here it’s held

Too Thirlmere is an artificial lake
For tea in Manchester, those thirsty folk
How much more d’ye think that they will take?
Hamlets drowned, dull cypress trees that cloak

I once passed through Darwen on a train
On the way to Ilkley with my aunt
No memory of bliss with me remains
Except the flowers so wild, their ghosts still haunt

Yet nowhere else gives me the feel of home
This landscape is my body and my soul

Mary wonders what to wear in the heatwave

I don’t know what to wear in this hot weather Mary said to her friend Annie who lived  next door.qr 80

I don’t have many cotton dresses and in any case they don’t seem to be fashionable now even in the summer

What about wearing very low rise jeans with a short top so that the wind will blow onto your midriff and cool you down?

That’s a good idea said Mary I’ll just go upstairs and get dressed would you mind putting the kettle on to make us some tea when I come down again?

Mary went upstairs and wondered what underwear to wear with her low-rise jeans

When she went downstairs her friend admired her navy blue top with polka dots and her chambray trousers

I think it’s a great idea to wear black knickers with your jeans in case you bend over and they become visible

Yes these are my incontinence pants;you can get them in black or white now and I expect in a few years or a few months you’ll be able to get red ones.

I do hope that when you havec had your surgery for your kidney that you will no longer be incontinent.

So do I said Mary balefully. Still it says me from washing and ironing seven  pairs of knickers a week

Did you iron your knickers asked her friend in amazement?

Yes because I was told it could kill any bacteria living there which might cause infections but the bacteria were coming from inside my body from the stones in my kidneys

I’ve always thought it’s a pity that if we have to have stones in our kidneys old gallbladder that there’s no gold or silver among them at least we went some money from our condition;

Oh, said Annie I thought you could wear a pair of red knickers over the top of your black incontinence pabts although it might make you look fat. And you still have to wash the red ones even if you didn’t need to iron them

0y next you’ll be suggesting I put a red bra over  or under my black one

Marks & Spencer’s profits would rise if women started wearing more underwear butb

it will be very hot

Oh I had  better go to the kitchen and make the coffee said Mary hospitably..

She found Emile in the kitchen watching a frog which was trying to get water from the draina goodness me z it’s one interesting difference between cats and human beings cats can kill other living creatures without guilt or fear although some human beings do have that psychopathic ability

If every animal or bird had a birth certificate then it would be possible to register death for them but since there are so many it would be a great strain on the economy of the country

Well I am thinking Emile said that it will not be possible because most animals and birds can’t read and write

Oh how I envy them said Annie because it took me so long to become literate in any case they don’t use a common language like English. Each species has different sounds that they can make but it’s not the same as having words

So true, said Mary and she drank her coffee

How difficult life would be if all the birds in your garden could speak English and talk to you when you go out to fill the bird feeder in the winter crying out that they want roast beef and Yorkshire pudding  not bird seeds.

Well let’s just be grateful that apart from Emile most animals cannot speak read or write do not have a common language and do not require houses schools public transport etc

What is the conclusion we can draw from this Mary said to her self

Was the world a better place where most people  were illiterate? And they did not need barrel or carrot leg jeans v nor the latest fashion in shoes

And they would keep warm with open fires

Then there would be no company is making millions out of our heating bill wonders noe wondering what to wear