Terence Bayler
Terence Bayler. I think the thing I loved most about Terence Bayler was his gentle loving considerate humour. I met him early in my first wife time with his wife Bridget Armstrong and we became good...
View ArticleThe Address to The Weetabix.
The Address to the Weetabix. Candacraig – August 1999 Fair fa your honest crunchy face Great chieftain o’ the breakfast place Yon Weetabix wi’ prickly bricks Wi’ milk poured ower Tae mek a grizzly mix....
View ArticleAustralian Wine Sketch
A lot of people in this country pooh-pooh Australian table wines. This is a pity, as many fine Australian wines appeal not only to the Australian palate, but also to the cognoscenti of Great Britain....
View ArticleFuck Selfies
C E7 Here’s a little song F # It won’t take very long C A7 It’s about the world today D7 G7 Something I badly need to say… C Fuck Selfies G7 And all those stupid gits C Who take selfies, G7 They just...
View ArticleFCC Again
Fuck you very much the FCC For kindly ending net neutrality The Country’s in the toilet Now that Putin took a dump All over your democracy And left you all with Trump So a bunch of greedy bastards Can...
View ArticleLines on missing a God daughter’s birthday
We went and missed your birthday once again We’ve consistently forgotten it since the age of ten Each year we say we won’t forget to Happy Birthday you And then the day comes round and then of course...
View ArticleOde to Jerry Falwell.
O Lord please reward Jerry Falwell And take him up gently with you If there’s room by your side For a large double-wide Or a chair by the window will do. He’s got all of the charm of Darth Vader He...
View ArticleLatest Reading. Fall 2021
Silverview John Le Carré A posthumous novel completed by his son. Camino Winds John Grisham Ok. The Deer Park Norman Mailer Re-reading this book always gives me...
View ArticleReading 2024
2024 Ok I’m still playing catch up. Many of these I read some months ago. I’m unsure in which order but I start off as usual with a re-reading of: Tender is the Night F. Scott...
View ArticleReading on the Road. Australia and New Zealand. October 24.
Intermezzo Sally Rooney I like the way she writes. I found the first half gripping, then felt it was going adrift, but returned to it with delight, because of her prose and the...
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