"Doctor, doctor I hate DIY!"
"Well don't then!"
"Doctor, doctor I hate DIY!"
"Well don't then!"
Dear Bear Family
I hope you will not mind me writing, on behalf of Ms Goldilocks, to convey her most sincere and heartfelt apologies for any misunderstanding that may have occurred.
My clent now realises that she unintentionally mis-entered a private space and unwittingly consumed breakfast food that was private property and not in the public domain as she believed.
Ms Goldilocks has instructed me to make clear that she is anxious to recompense any financial loss involved. Please send us your estimate for replacing the porridge concerned, stating your preferred temperature, and we will do our best to respond in a timely manner.
Yours faithfully,
C Real
Senior Partner
Scoffit, Quick, and Run
Usually a poem should stand alone and require no context.
However please consider this.
"Dragonfly hunter, what place are you rambling to today?"
The writer had a young son who died.
This is her question.
Walk slow. You'll see more.
The wind's breath,
That's the kindest kiss of all.
Be up at dawn and dusk
To hear the birds explain
A little of the riddle.
"The Obstacle is the Path"
The Observant see where the deer
Squeeze through the hedge.
You used to say
"Many would love you, given permission"
I'm still trying to
Find my way through.
Life's a bright stream
Which every traveller should pause and gaze into.
There's a resistance movement against teaching formal grammar in schools. It's called "they shall not parse.”
It's a bad deal.
Don't die.
Thank goodness I can still
See your eyes
Reflected in the bright stream.
I've been eating time
Now it's eating me.
I've just bought 'Poems that make grown men cry'. I thought the title was a bit cheesy, to tell you the truth, but when I dipped into into the book, courtesy of Amazon's 'Look inside' I was hooked. The selection is a knock out, all the poems I've read so far were stunning. If the book gets more people keen on poetry, which I think it will, then I'll forgive the title!
Black and white cat
Come and sniff
I'm a friend, don't be scared.
So I took Will down the Swan and he got in an argument and was barred.
I wondered why my newspaper felt so cold.Then I realised it had poor circulation.
Time, you bastard!
How can we be friends.
When you're just
Trying to do us all in?
eadership
noun
Someone left me some drawing pins in their will. Turned out they were inheritance tacks.
I came up with this tonight, and it seems pretty tough to read aloud. Give it a try and write back!
What Andrea is, is annoyed by anedoids ads.
As any adenoidally ad annoyed Andrea is annoyed by anedoids ads.
A certain young gourmet named Grice
Reckoned crispy roast wombat was nice.
He said' "There's a dearth,
For they live in the earth.
But I'll dig you one up in a trice."
At that moment
A bright cold halo
Appeared round the moon
An owl hooted.
Steady gaze.
Mount Fuji.
Issa
Our eyes let us see further than a dragonfly can, but from the time of Galileo we have explored how we can extend our reach, not just to gaze at the mountains, but to penetrate the heavens. And for that we use telescopes.
The first optical telescopes were very small, at least by modern standards. For example, one of Newton's seems to have a diameter of about 50 mm.
But subsequently the diameter of telescopes has doubled and redoubled many times, as various construction problems have been overcome.
The first telescopes used lenses, but starting with Newton's, reflecting telescopes have dominated, because it's much less difficult to manufacture big mirrors than it is big lenses.
Why does size matter? Because a bigger diameter means, in simple terms, a bigger magnification.
So there are three really big telescopes planned to come into operation 2020s (hopefully). The biggest telescope at present is the Keck, which is 10 m across, so collects 40,000 times as much light as Newton's, if I have my sums right. The new ones proposed will be 25 m, 30 m, and the largest of all, the European Extremely Large Telescope, at 39 m.
This giant dragonfly eye won't be just one huge mirror, it will be made of 798 hexagons, each 1.44 m across a compound mirror, just as dragonfly sees through compound lenses.
And in case you wondered the EELT won't physically be in Europe, for practical reasons, but in Chile.
The EELT and the other big telescopes will let us take pictures of exoplanets. These are planets orbiting other stars from ours. Many of these have been discovered but usually their existence is only inferred, from regular periodic changes in the light we observe from the star, as the planet comes between it and us. Only in a score of cases can we even observe the planet as a separate object from its star.
When a promising new exoplanet is discovered the media often feature illustrations of what it looks like, particularly if there is any possibility that it could harbour life. But these are merely the imaginative work of artists, not real pictures captured by telescopes.
The new generation telescopes will change this. For the first time we shall be able to actually see exoplanets orbiting their stars. We shall have come a long way from Galileo's observation of Jupiter being circled by its moons.
Swiss leader William Tell was heavily criticised last night for being "Too obsessed with targets".
Herr Tell's office was unavailable for comment.
Why was the word "posesses" embarrassed to be seen in public?
Because it was under-essed.
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