30 Monday Mar 2020
Posted in art, News, Nostalgia, Personal, Photography, Psychology, Relationships, Sport
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Duddingston Loch, Edinburgh, National Portrait Gallery, Rev Robert Walker, self-isolation, skating
…can still be fun.
Think of the Rev Robert Walker Skating on Duddingston Loch
(National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh).
16 Wednesday Oct 2019
Posted in Autumn, Literature, Nature, Nostalgia, Personal, Photography, Sport
Twenty First Century Izaak Walton by Candia Dixon-Stuart
14 Sunday Jul 2019
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This was 2015, but one champion did it again!
06 Saturday Jul 2019
08 Saturday Sep 2018
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Benjamin's sack, Croatians, diptych, football, Henry Bolingbroke, Joseph, King Edward, King Richard, livery badge, martlet, Pope, Revenge Parliament, shrines, St George, WAGS, Wilton diptych, World Cup
Viewing The Wilton Diptych on the Day England Realised
‘It [wasn’t] coming home.’
We knelt with King Richard – supplicated;
wanted to wave that pennant of St George,
which was frustratingly just out of reach.
There was no revolt; the ‘peasants’ behaved.
Why did the Virgin reward Croatians?
Why did Henry Bolingbroke take the crown?
Why is the Pope a Catholic?
All our hearts were couchant and chained today.
The shock of failure was epiphanal.
Our livery badge was the three lions.
The angel team seemed to be in clover,
while we were brought to our knees in wasteland.
After four years the Revenge Parliament
will sit. We will challenge hollow power.
Our heraldic past was manufactured –
attributed, as Edward’s martlet shield.
Our feet seemed to be made of feathers
like the little birds thereon depicted.
Shrines and treasures are often portable
and they can be exchanged across countries,
like trophy WAGS. We would have kissed the feet
of anyone who’d helped us win the cup;
not let it pass from us
into some thieving Benjamin’s rucksack.
With sainted management behind us, we,
like Joseph, will recover the chalice.
11 Wednesday Jul 2018
Posted in Celebrities, History, News, Photography, Sport, Summer, Tennis
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Practising his serve. Obviously paid off!
Photos candiacomesclean.wordpress.com
09 Wednesday May 2018
27 Thursday Jul 2017
Posted in Celebrities, Media, News, Sport, Writing
Photo by Naparazzi, Jan 2014; (Wikipedia)
Poor Joe Root,
he got a ‘peach’ and now he’s oot.
Someone’s * tweeted he’s not the ticket
and will be the shortest reigned captain in English cricket.
Might not be true – he (Joe) may redeem himself yet.
24 Monday Apr 2017
(Jagdschloss Grunewald- image from Medieval Karl@ WordPress)
Crowd-surfing
didn’t begin at
rock concerts.
12 Sunday Mar 2017
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(Photo by Clement Bucco-Lechat.
25/10/14 USO- Gloucester Rugby)
Greig Laidlaw,
there’s nae point in greetin’ fur yer Maw.
If it hudnae been fur yer injury,
ye might hae led yer lads tae victory.
