Bits and bobs No12

[oldherbaceous]

It's a small world Clive, but a very interesting one.

The Aga oil tank did make me smile.

And while we are on about a small world, and i know this could cause some people distress, but think if another forum member was related to me.

[macmac]

I'd be delighted to be related to you OH

[donedigging]

Good Morning OH ( at last I beat your early posts )

Do we have to guess who is related to you?
If so my guess is Old Codger is your brother-in law

[oldherbaceous]

Dear macmac, thats the nicest thing i have heard since yesterday when i was asked if i wanted four or six sausages.

Dear Donedigging, what an early post indeed.
No i'm not related to Old Codger, much to his relief, just good mates.

[oldherbaceous]

Very quiet on here last night, i suppose everyone was watching the cricket highlights then the boxing.

[oldherbaceous]

I had a comlementary copy of the Gardeners World Magazine come through the post Friday.
I have just had a quick look through it, and on page 124, titled, Top of the class... or could Gardeners World do better, on the t.v, out of the eight replies printed, three of them were positive but five were quite the opposite.

But credit to them for printing it, but will they do anything about it!

[donedigging]

Dear OH,

I have been watching the golf, so haven't a clue what the cricket or the boxing is up too.

Poor Tom

[Westi]

Interesting OH - have they been reading the posts on
here Like you say will they take notice or will they
re-wrap it in another shape.

I can't really put my finger on what it is I don't like - I
know the presenters are not the same but I can still watch
other stuff with presenters I don't like. I kinda think it hasn't
a happy medium - part dumbed down and other bits with lots
of latin plant names and stupid 'projects'.

I hope they sort it out as it is kind of an institution.

Westi

[oldherbaceous]

How strange, not a single post for me to read this wonderful morning.

[alan refail]

How strange, not a single post for me to read this wonderful morning.

So sorry OH. I was up earlier than you but nothing to post.

For next time you find no new posts, here's the Reverend Eli Jenkin's evening song from Dylan Thomas's Under Milk Wood:


Every morning when I wake,
Dear Lord a little prayer I make,
O please to keep Thy loving eye
On all poor creatures born to die.

And every evening at sun-down
I ask a blessing on the town,
For whether we last the night or no
I'm sure is always touch-and-go.

We are not wholly bad or good
Who live our lives under Milk Wood,
And Thou, I know, wilt be the first
To see our best side, not our worst.

O let us see another day!
Bless us all this night, I pray,
And to the sun we all will bow
And say, good-bye - but just for now!



If you want the morning poem, it's this:

Dear Gwalia! I know there are
Towns lovelier than ours,
And fairer hills and loftier far,
And groves more full of flowers,

And boskier woods more blithe with spring
And bright with birds' adorning,
And sweeter bards than I to sing
Their praise this beauteous morning.

By Cader Idris, tempest-torn,
Or Moel yr Wyddfa's glory,
Carnedd Llewelyn beauty born,
Plinlimmon old in story,

By mountains where King Arthur dreams,
By Penmaenmawr defiant,
Llaregyb Hill a molehill seems,
A pygmy to a giant.

By Sawdde, Senny, Dovey, Dee,
Edw, Eden, Aled, all,
Taff and Towy broad and free,
Llyfnant with its waterfall,

Claerwen, Cleddau, Dulais, Daw,
Ely, Gwili, Ogwr, Nedd,
Small is our River Dewi, Lord,
A baby on a rushy bed.

By Carreg Cennen, King of time,
Our Heron Head is only
A bit of stone with seaweed spread
Where gulls come to be lonely.

A tiny dingle is Milk Wood
By Golden Grove 'neath Grongar,
But let me choose and oh! I should
Love all my life and longer

To stroll among our trees and stray
In Goosegog Lane, on Donkey Down,
And hear the Dewi sing all day,
And never, never leave the town.

[glallotments]

Wow that brought back memories we had to 'do' Under Milk Wood as the sixth form play when I was at school x years ago!

[oldherbaceous]

Thank-you Alan, some thoughtful words, you just can't beat a Scottish verse.

[alan refail]

Wow that brought back memories we had to 'do' Under Milk Wood as the sixth form play when I was at school x years ago!

Which part did you play? I am wondering whether you are a Polly Garter or a Myfanwy Price - or even a Rosie Probert

[glallotments]

No just a bit part!!

I won't tell you which part my husband played though!!!

[alan refail]

I won't tell you which part my husband played though!!!

I wonder what that would have been