After some days
The committee was near consensus
On how to respond to the invasion
Just then the aliens broke in
And vaporised everyone.
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Oven gloves - haven't you often felt the same?
Tuesday, 31 Mar 2020, 22:46
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Forsythia
Sunday, 29 Mar 2020, 23:41
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Forsythia is out in my garden.
This flower, which originated in the East, grows wild near where I live, a relic of what was once a thriving local industry. Farmers cultivated it and sent the cut blossoms up to Town on the fast train, so that Londoners could have flowers on the table at Easter. All that has gone long ago, but the plant hangs on in the hedgerows.
Tim's Extreme Measures
Sunday, 29 Mar 2020, 20:25
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Tim's Burden of Responsibility
Thursday, 26 Mar 2020, 18:32
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Tom Tries To Keep His Spirits Up
Wednesday, 25 Mar 2020, 20:33
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Day 6
Tuesday, 24 Mar 2020, 15:49
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Untitled
Monday, 23 Mar 2020, 23:23
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Edited by Richard Walker, Monday, 23 Mar 2020, 23:32
I meant to write tonight about...
Sunday, 22 Mar 2020, 22:59
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Edited by Richard Walker, Sunday, 22 Mar 2020, 23:00
...another famous literary recluse, Henry Thoreau, a second self-cabin-builder. But time has run out. Search on his name, and find his famous aphorism, "Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify."
The Ten Foot Square Hut
Sunday, 22 Mar 2020, 01:47
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I am in self isolation now for some weeks at least and this is day three. It is an interesting and different experience.
It made me think of one of my favourite books, Hojoki, written in 1212 by the Japanese poet and Buddhist monk Kamo Chomei. After witnessing many disasters such as fires, famines and earthquakes, and suffering personal setbacks at court, he retired to the mountains and lived a simple, largely solitary, and reflective existence, in a hut he constructed for himself, spending much of his time contemplating the impermanence of all things.
The translator of the Penguin edition I own, Meredith McKinney, reconstructed the plan of the hut from Kamo’s description, see the lovely illustration below
Brittanica has a good short entry about Kamo, see
https://www.britannica.com/topic/An-Account-of-My-Hut
It made me think of one of my favourite books, Hojoki, written in 1212 by the Japanese poet and Buddhist monk Kamo Chomei. After witnessing many disasters such as fires, famines and earthquakes, and suffering personal setbacks at court, he retired to the mountains and lived a simple, largely solitary, and reflective existence, in a hut he constructed for himself, spending much of his time contemplating the impermanence of all things.
The translator of the Penguin edition I own, Meredith McKinney, reconstructed the plan of the hut from Kamo’s description, see the lovely illustration below
Brittanica has a good short entry about Kamo, see
https://www.britannica.com/topic/An-Account-of-My-Hut
New App
Thursday, 19 Mar 2020, 01:14
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Edited by Richard Walker, Thursday, 19 Mar 2020, 01:15
Petition
Sunday, 15 Mar 2020, 01:34
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One Liner
Wednesday, 11 Mar 2020, 01:28
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I once had a job in a soup factory. That’s gruelling work.
Laughter is the best medicine
Monday, 9 Mar 2020, 00:18
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I was telling jokes in the sewing circle tonight. Well I had them in stitches!
Beauty Treatment
Monday, 9 Mar 2020, 00:08
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Hoping to improve my complexion I bought a mud pack over the internet. Sadly, when it arrived it had passed its ooze by date.
Weather Report
Sunday, 8 Mar 2020, 18:15
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Tom noticed the weather outside had turned chilli
The First Violets
Saturday, 7 Mar 2020, 00:31
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Touché Nietzsche!
Saturday, 7 Mar 2020, 00:12
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I was amused by this, from Deborah Ross, ‘Remember: what doesn’t kill you makes you whinier’.
Playground Riddle
Tuesday, 3 Mar 2020, 23:49
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I heard this and it made me smile.
Why do Firemen wear red braces?
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A Heavy Smoker, and No Mistake
Monday, 2 Mar 2020, 00:44
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One Liner
Saturday, 29 Feb 2020, 21:57
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My friend was rushed to hospital after being kicked by a horse. Luckily his condition is stable.
One Liner
Friday, 28 Feb 2020, 21:37
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Had an argument with a sea god. He’d better not Triton with me.
The word pun
Thursday, 27 Feb 2020, 23:51
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I looked 'pun' up in the Oxford English Dictionary and found this rather nice quotation from Addison, writing in the Spectator
Having pursued the History of a Punn,..I shall here define it to be a Conceit arising from the use of two Words that agree in the Sound, but differ in the Sense.
You can read the whole article from 1711 here.
I didn't find what I was looking for though. The OED says the word is 'Of uncertain origin'.
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