Famous Writers 1

Beryl Kingston
Found plotting novels such fun,
But tied herself up in a terrible muddle
Packing for a cruise across a puddle.

The Red Queen's advice to Ralph

"The Lark Ascending"
Would not suit our modern times
Try "lark assembling"

The Great British Pub #Sarcasticon

The Crystal Palace
Regimented figurines
Inflated prices

£4.99 for a packet of crips and a pint of Fosters, mate! You've got to be taking the raw prawn cocktail... 
Them's not London - well, Teddington, prices - them's worse!

Asymmetry in The Hive

Four frames on a wall,
Two too askew; I'm itching
To set them both true.

From small acorns...

Admiral Arthur Phillip RN

Transported some men,

And founded New South Wales

(The largest of England's al fresco gaols).

A good night at The Hive

Electric guitars
Sparking a buzz at The Hive
And photo session!

Live Music at The Hive

A real music pub
Jamming guitars strike the right
(and a few wrong) notes

Ugandan Naval Relations

Commander Sarah West
Allegedly made a frigate her love nest.
Not so much "Sleeping with the Enemy;"
More a whole new meaning for "her third dickey."

Have they thought this through?

Ankle tagging drunks;
Will booze sniffing anklets work
If they are legless?

Lights Out - August 4th, 1914

Lamps are going out...
Except on that War Machine
Marked 'MEAT GRINDER ON'

Sir Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Falladon

Inspired by that iconic and prescient quotation attributed to the British Foreign Secretary on the eve of the Great War:

"The lamps are going out all over Europe, we shall not see them lit again in our life-time"

The Great War started 100 years ago, today. 

The trauma it engendered earned it the epithet "the War to end all wars."

This has not proved to be so.

Five Guinea Reward

It pays to advertise, Mrs Malone,
And in truth the lady was rarely alone,
As gentlemen handed in her merkin
At 9 Gay Street, a-smirkin'

From: "Lifting the Georgian petticoats" by Georgette McCready, THE BATH MAGAZINE, 142, July 2014.