Perhaps I had ambitions to be an MP - or an undertaker!

Sunday, December 4, 2011

WISE MEN SAY

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship. - Buddha

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WHAT A GREAT PICTURE!


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POETRY FOR PLEASURE

REVERIE
Sophia Scott

The Campsie Fells lay dreaming in the soft sweet summer light,
Little breezes played and whispered round her knees,
She dreamed of days we knew not when the waters lapped her feet
And the glaciers slithered steeply from her sides -
Days when mammoths roamed the valley through the sand dunes weird and high,
And our coal was mosses, ferns and tropic trees.

The long low line of hills was swept by western winds,
And the bracken’s green was long since turned to brown,
Her dreams were sore and troubled, for she heard the tramp of feet
As the Romans marched to Cadder o’er the down;
Till they pitched their tents and sheltered from the winter’s wildest wrath,
And beneath her flanks they built for them a town.

All these days are long since over, long ago and far away,
Changeless still the Campsies lie in summer sheen;
We discover Roman forts and we dig up mammoth bones
In our age of petrol, aeroplanes and steam;
And we build our little houses and we live our little lives,
But the great hills hug their secrets still - and dream.

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JOHN'S GALLERY


Ophelia, by George Frederic Watts (1817-1904)

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TAKE YOUR PARTNERS

Today's record is typical of the kind of popular music being played in Germany before the war. This is Paul Godwin and his Band with "Have a little drink with me." Uploaded by blackeyedjoe.



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AN 80 PLUS QUOTE

One of the good things about getting older is you find you're more interesting than most of the people you meet. - Lee Marvin

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