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Counting calories;

Counting Friends; even counting syllables;

What's the arsing point.

One For The Birds

Blank that shower scene
Seagulls plot horror in Bath
Hitchhens and hitchcocks

 

Eavesdroppings

Shared point of contact
"My mum doesn't understand
pasta - foreign crap"

Severn Brides for Severn Brothers

Driving it alone
When once we drove it a deux
Feelings brake surface

Fire Tender Is The Night

Arson and Old Lace
Of authors' hot properties
Grate Expectations

Tin Lizzie

Of cattleships and bruisers

The Reverend William Archibald Spooner
Was no mean crooner;
A career ended sooner
by his rep as a keen mooner.

credit: Vanity Fair, 1898

The Brigantine Mary C.

Sarah Elizabeth Cobb Briggs,
A hen frigate furnishes a woman poor digs.
But it must've been some sex pest,
To cause all to quit Mary Celeste.

Or do you prefer

Mrs Benjamin Spooner Briggs
Tired of sea shanties and nautical jigs.
But why abandon the Mary Celeste
With all the rest?

Inspired by reading a review of Valerie Martin's The Ghost of the Mary Celeste in the latest BIG ISSUE, and recalling the first time I came across this mystery in the four volume Shipping Wonders of the World, edited by Clarence Winchester in 1936.

Beware Greeks bearing arrows

Before Greek crisis
Thought Oxi was where one stood
To play darts in pub

Unimaginable

Feeling new toes sprout
Discerning dendritic arms
To grow like a tree

No Scientific Method In His Madness

When L. Ron Hubbard
Came out of the pulp fiction writer's cupboard,
The religious cult he built
Was based on gilt.

On recently seeing the film documentary GOING CLEAR at the Little Theatre, Bath.

Credit: http://www.lermanet.com/scientific.htm

In the Summertime - Modern Reprise

Hark, I hear something.
Is it droning or buzzing?
Bumblebee or drone?