Successive Secessions

Once was Boston, Mass.
Ignored but taxed by Tories
Now, it's Boston, Lincs.

Moscow Centre Rules

Spies stayin' alive
Facing Moscow Centre's hoods
The Kay Gee Bee Gees

"The Greatest Man In The World"

"You Win Again"

Mortal Fear Two

That binary switch
Loath to ask others of it
Presume they fear too

From The Archives

Old text reminds me
Does a Normandy beaches
Veteran still live?

McRonin

Japanese Speyside's
Accomplished sommelier-san
Whisky Anorak

Invergordon More Tinnies

Two week's run ashore
In Invergordon, oh Laird
No horse, just two pubs

Wakes Weekend

Raven enlivened
Kingswood charabanc party
(Though they came by train)

The Power of Marketing

Jägermeister ads
Think back to the Eighties when
Dossers' fav tipple

It's Not Shakespeare...

Never vanquish'd be
Garrard until Boreham Wood
To Tranmere shall come

Changing Times

Last stitch through the nose
Checking the corpse for life signs
Now? Check for retweets

Polar Bare

Elsa Schenthal
Possessed the powers mental
And the fortitude
To face Arctic waters nude.

The Dickens To Pay

Charles Dickens
Thought there were rich pickings
In merchandising his Pickwick Papers.
He mined whole acres.

Charles Dickens - Man of Science ('The Fat Boy')

Image by Kyd (Joseph Clayton Clarke) (http://www.oldbookart.com/)