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Dog Toys

06 Wednesday Mar 2019

Posted by Candia in Celebrities, Humour, News, Photography, Politics, Satire

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Boris Johnson, dog toys, Donald Trump, Jeremy Corbyn, political satire, Theresa May

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as seen in an Oxford shop window today!

Photos by Candia

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Details from Theresa May Collage

19 Monday Mar 2018

Posted by Candia in art, Humour, News, Nostalgia, Politics, Satire, Social Comment

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collage, Donald Trump, Robert Rauschenberg, strong and stable, Theresa May

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Don’t ask me ‘Why?’  No one asked Robert Rauschenberg

that question….  Did they?

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The Cock Crows

12 Monday Jun 2017

Posted by Candia in art, Humour, News, Poetry, Politics, Religion, Social Comment, Writing

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cock crows, Theresa May

(Image from the Got Medieval Bestiary Loveline, 2012)

 

Theresa,

before the cock crows

you’ll be gone.

 

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Boys’ Jobs?

10 Saturday Jun 2017

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boys' jobs, clerihew, Philip May, Theresa May

Philip May,

soon you might have your say.

Theresa, for all her sins,

will have time to share the ‘boys’ jobs’ – and to take out the bins.

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No Such Thing….

06 Saturday May 2017

Posted by Candia in art, Arts, Humour, Literature, Poetry, Politics, Relationships, Satire, Social Comment, Writing

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David Cameron, Decameron, Juncker, Theresa May

https://coursewikis.fas.harvard.edu/aiu18/images/Decameron-noble_meal.jpg

(Image from Decameron- no, not David Cameron, though he got us into this farce.)

Juncker:   No such thing

as a free lunch, chere

Therese.

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Strong and Stable

30 Sunday Apr 2017

Posted by Candia in art, Crime, News, Poetry, Politics, Satire, Social Comment, Writing

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stable government, Theresa May

(Vigiles du Roi Charles VII: Wikipedia)

 

Theresa:

 

It’s time for

a strong and stable

government.

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Tragedienne

26 Wednesday Apr 2017

Posted by Candia in art, Humour, News, Poetry, Politics, Satire, Social Comment, Writing

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Roman de la Rose, Theresa May

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Theresa,

no need to fall on

your sword – yet!

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Hoping Against Hope

18 Tuesday Apr 2017

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Theresa May

Image result for Harley MS British Library

 

Theresa

hopes an answer comes

up quite soon.

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Clerihew 2

10 Friday Feb 2017

Posted by Candia in Humour, News, Poetry, Politics, Social Comment, Writing

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Brexit, clerihew, EU, sphinx, tautology, Theresa May

Theresa May- but then she may not.

She’s the PM- well, who would have thought!

All she will say on our EU exit

is a sphinx-like, tautologous ‘Brexit means Brexit.‘

 

 

Theresa May.png

(Controller of HM Stationery Office

http://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_

data/file/5889481/The_United_Kingdom_exit_from_and_partnership_with_the_EU.

Web.pdf)

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P**** off, Virginia!

24 Thursday Nov 2016

Posted by Candia in Humour, Language, Personal, Relationships, Sculpture, Social Comment, Suttonford, Writing

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Angela Merkel, manneken pis, sitzpinkler, stehpinkler, Theresa May, Wisden

Bruxelles Manneken Pis.jpg

(Manneken Pis, 19/6/11- own work: Myrabella.  Wikimedia

Commons CC BY- SA 3.0)

Gus was meditative.  What was he going to do about the latest

development?

Retirement had been a shock to his system.  Living in Virginia’s

house had been a mistake.  He was institutionalised.  He admitted

it. He liked the company of males and thrived – throve?-in a boarding

house milieu.

Virginia was set in her ways.  As former PA to The Headmaster, she had

been used to directing operations.  Trying to accommodate both her way

and Snod’s little foibles in one domestic situation was tough.  The first

rumble of discontent had been when she had baulked at displaying his

entire Wisden collection in the sitting room.  She had suggested storing

his beloved books in the garage.

The house was hers.  She had owned it outright since widowhood.

Maybe they should have bought a separate dwelling next door for his

cricket memorabilia collection and his model railway.

But this morning was a step too far.

He had been downstairs in the Little Boys’ Room and lifted the seat.

He felt like the Manneken Pis in sub-zero temperatures.  In other words,

he froze.

From somewhere in the toilet bowl direction he heard Theresa May’s voice.

Or was it Angela Merkel’s?

There was a spooky gizmo attached to the rim and a verboten notice: Halt,

Stehpinkler! 

Snod tore the gadget off and attempted to flush it down the loo, but, of

course this was not an effective strategy.  He had to hook it out.

What are you doing, love?  Virginia’s dulcet tones could be heard

approaching. You’ve been in there for ages.  Are you all right?

Yes, dear, he replied through gritted teeth.

But he wasn’t.

If Nigel wants to transition to a sitzpinkler, let him!  Snod seethed.  I

have always told my pupils to stand up and be men! 

And he took the S.P.U.K device and crushed it underfoot.  For a

well-read individual such as himself, he wasn’t going to give up

his convictions about Cartesian mind/ body relationships- even if it

threatened other connections.  Koestleresque ghosts in the machine

ought not to invade such a monastic cell.

If Virginia thought she could follow him where no other had dared, she

was much mistaken.

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My name is Candia. Its initial consonant alliterates with “cow” and there are connotations with the adjective “candid.” I started writing this blog in the summer of 2012 and focused on satire at the start.

Interspersed was ironic news comment, reviews and poetry.

Over the years I have won some international poetry competitions and have published in reputable small presses, as well as reviewing and reading alongside well- established poets. I wrote under my own name then, but Candia has taken me over as an online persona. Having brought out a serious anthology last year called 'Its Own Place' which features poetry of an epiphanal nature, I was able to take part in an Arts and Spirituality series of lectures in Winchester in 2016.

Lately I have been experimenting with boussekusekeika, sestinas, rhyme royale, villanelles and other forms. I am exploring Japanese themes at the moment, my interest having been re-ignited by the recent re-evaluations of Hokusai.

Thank you to all my committed followers whose loyalty has encouraged me to keep writing. It has been exciting to meet some of you in the flesh- in venues as far flung as Melbourne and Sydney!

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