Daiku: April 2012

27.4.12

BSkyB's the limit

Jeremy Hunt
to be replaced by Tessa Munt?
Anything to avoid a rhyme scatological
in verse meant to be whimsical.

or do you prefer:

Jeremy Hunt
Poor Bloody Infantry grunt.
Kicked in the Trossochs
in the feud twixt Clans Camerons and Murdochs

26.4.12

Lovely weather for ducks

Es regnet viel zu viel
Schönes Wetter für Ente
Futter oder Sex?

Inspired by watching the ducks enjoying the Lam Brook where I live...

25.4.12

The invisible handyman

Adam Smith
the Spad not the economyth
overstepped the quasi-judicial role
and bit the bullet for his boss; how droll...

19.4.12

Raining on their parade...

Two boys splashing mud
grin as puddle drowns trainers.
Lads will be lads still!

18.4.12

Iron Age Thinking

Iron Age fortress
or protected cattle pound?
That is the question

inspired by Sunday's walk atop Little Solsbury Hill.

17.4.12

On Little Solsbury Hill...

Which do you prefer?

On Solsbury Hill
in search of round hut circles:
Archaeologists

or

Archaeologists
in search of round hut circles.
A tautology?

16.4.12

Bath and Camerton Archaeological Society

BACAS not badass
They're not archaeologists
with an attitude

Inspired by yesterday's walk on Little Solsbury Hill.

15.4.12

2:42 am

Low moon glimpsed through cloud
Strange repeated clanking noise
Owl hoots eerily

14.4.12

2:41 am

Sounds borne on night air
Feeder of fears; strange new world
Dead of night remade

13.4.12

Just cause

Jack Straw
several dromedaries did bore
Droning on so, justifying war in Iraq
The last camel might've broke Straw's back

12.4.12

Lucky Seven Meme Game

Nettie Thomson has kindly tagged me as one of the seven writers to next participate in the Twitter game, the Lucky Seven Meme game.

This requires the tagged writer to

Select page seven or 77 of the writer's current manuscript;
Find line seven;
Post the next seven lines or sentences, exactly as they are (no cheating)
Tag seven other writers to do the same.
Let those writers know...

It's an honour I don't think I deserve, not yet having published a novel. My WIP, Exiles, is at an early stage. It's merely a collection of scenes, with many gaps between them, so it's difficult to identify even page seven let alone page 77 at the moment. Therefore I've chosen the seventh file, counted seven lines down, and plucked the following seven lines from it:

The Conclave had but a single purpose, the review of the known exoplanets and their star systems. The People were searching for a second home. The futures of up to 25,000 Persons would depend on the suitability of the chosen target system. It was a complex decision, dependent on many factors – the characteristics of the star; the known planets, the distribution of dust, gas and planetoids, if any were detected; the distance from the Solar System and quantitative analyses of both the scientific uncertainties and concomitant risks in choosing the first extra-solar home for humankind.

As it's first draft, and the work is evolving as I write, I'm not even sure it will survive the second draft re-write, but there you go... Mission accomplished.

Finally, to fulfil my obligations to whoever started this game, I would like to tag the following seven authors (with apologies if they have already been so tagged - does that excuse them, I wonder?).

The Magnificent Seven are:

@rebeleith

@bobosvensk

@sarahduncan1

@mariwriter

@marikacobbold

@yabunonaka

@russwrites

Bladud's Head Thoughts (4)

Bladud's Head beer stop
Edge of Bath - sows rooting up
and bores mouthing off

or do you prefer:

Bladud's Head beer stop
Bath's edge; sows rooting before
Bores spouting behind