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Retirement. If you’ve always paid up your taxes, With no omissions or laxness, Now that you have retired, As to what you aspired, The governments taken its axes. Meadowhead Bard. Read more
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I’ve had it nearly seventy one years, It doesn’t have cogs levers or gears. Often overworked, misused and abused but still never burned out or fused. On each side there’s an arm, At the top two eyes full of charm. At the bottom two feet, still quite fleet The roofs lost its thatch, the hands… Read more
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I spend all of my time with myself, I’m quite good company. But without my wife and friends, I’d be totally lost at see. All my friends with me. I don’t have an iphone, but I’m never alone, I have all my friends with me. I don’t travel abroad, ‘cause I can’t afford, to take… Read more
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Come In Number Two. I wouldn’t have name, I’d have a number, Then I’d fit right in the scheme, No worry about misspelling then, You know exactly what I mean. I’d have it tattooed on my front, And even on my head, I could be seen from drones above, And cameras from straight ahead. I… Read more
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Yes, in fact 60 something years later I still have it, It’s called The Magic Wood Beyond the World, by Grace Rhys. It could easily be what inspired JR Tolkien to write the Hobbit books. The main protagonist is an imp called Rabjibooli, whom at one point I remember being punished for his misdoings by… Read more
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The three books the have had the most impact on me are, The Encyclopedia Britannica, War and Peace, and The Oxford Concise Dictionary. The Reason, they fell off the top shelf! I was tempted to kill two birds with one stone, and use a quote from Dylan’s Jokerman, but decided not to as it may… Read more
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Today’s Dylan Quote, “By the old wooden stove our hats were hung, our story’s were told our songs were sung” Bob! Stoves can’t be made out of wood they would burn, isn’t poetic licence a wonderful thing! Whoever poses these questions, is a tormentor. There are many kinds of fears, personal phobia types, fears of… Read more
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First a favourite line from Dylan. “I make shoes for everyone, even you, while I still go barefoot” I used to think this was maybe a quote from the Bible, but I now think it’s Bobs own, tell me if I’m wrong. I had the idea of pouring rain and roaring pain, then it all… Read more
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I know when it’s time to unplug, it’s 7pm the main news has finished, and I ain’t poisoning my mind with the rest of the inane dross and violence that’s on the tv. Take a look at the tv listings, and ask yourself “Why is there so much violent crime?” Read more
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