I can’t add up ! Yesterday evening I was checking the books I have written since 1st January. I thought I had written and published fourteen e-books, WRONG the total is fifteen.
I CAN’T ADD UP
I can not add up, can you ?
Mental arithmetic is becoming obsolete.
Can you add up ? I can’t.
Add up and perhaps take away,
can you ?
Multiply, divide and what is a square root ?
Silly smart phones and on-line automated calculators
have made mental arithmetic obsolete.
Eleven elevens are one hundred and thirty two.
Three nines are twenty seven. I think.
Do kids today learn their times tables ?
Eight plus seven minus six, divided by two:
what does that come to ?
I haven’t a clue,
I can’t add up. I told you that !
Let
me double check.
1st
January – Retro Eighties
1st
January – In Search Of The Leons
2nd
January – L’Escargot Albert
13th
January – Jukebox Jury
31st
January – Dave’s Diary January
31st
January – Milton Keynes A Disco For a New City
SEVEN
BOOKS IN JANUARY
3rd
February – By The Pricking Of My Thumbs – The Diary Of A Serial Killer
11th
February – Behind The Noose Or Not
15th
February – The Secret Diary Of An Old Man Aged Thirteen And Three-Quarters
23rd
February – Down And Out In Milton Dreams
24th
February - Poets Corner Volume One
28th
February – A Staircase Of Words
28th
February – Dave’s Diary February
SEVEN
BOOKS
6th March – This House Believes
That’s fifteen isn’t it ?
There’s a lot happening in England today.
Schools are returning after being closed for moths and months. My heart is with teachers, all staff, children and parents. I have my fingers so tightly crossed for everyone.
This
is a precis of a Sky News report:
Pupils in England are beginning to return to
school this morning after months of remote learning under the first step to
ease COVID-19 restrictions.
All children will be able to head back into the classroom, but
secondary schools can stagger the return of students over the week to allow for
mass testing.
Secondary school pupils will be asked to take three voluntary
COVID-19 tests on site and one at home over the first fortnight - before being
sent home-testing kits to do twice a week.
The Department for Education is advising secondary school
students to wear face coverings wherever social distancing cannot be
maintained, including in the classroom.
The news is also full of Prince Harry and his wife giving a TV interview about their lives. I can not say that I understand and I am not in their position but my feelings are of sympathy. This pandemic has shown our royal family is notb all it is creacked up to be.
This
is just a small part of one news report:
Meghan and Harry's tell-all interview
with Oprah has aired in the US, with the Duchess of Sussex claiming
"concerns" were raised about baby Archie's skin colour before he was
born and saying she had suicidal thoughts during her time in the Royal Family.
American audiences were the first to see the two-hour Oprah With Meghan And Harry: A Primetime Special, in which the couple made a
series of bombshell claims - including Harry saying Prince Charles had at one point stopped taking his
calls, and alleging he had been "trapped" in the royal system,
"like the rest of my family".
The couple also discussed racism, with Harry saying it
"hurt" that his family did not speak out against articles "with
colonial undertones" written about his wife.
Meghan told Winfrey she
married into the royals "naively, because I didn't grow up knowing much
about the Royal Family".
I wonder what those of you reading this account in one hundred
years time will make of that.
My heart has been a little bit worried that its poems have been
a bit dark, yesterday evening while watching an episode of Dinner Ladies by
Victoria Wood my heart turned down the volume on the TV and said write this:
GRAVY
Men can not make gravy,
their testosterone gets in the way.
And women can’t change a tyre on a car,
it’s their high heels that’s the problem there.
A rabbit can’t peck on a bird table,
and a tropical fish can’t purr like a cat.
It’s a crazy old world that we live in,
topsy-turvy you may say.
But at the end of the day
it’s fun aint it ?
Today I s International Women’s Day. I do hope when this time
capsule is opened in 2121 this unnecessary celebration has been abandoned.
WOMEN’S DAY ?
International women’s day ?
That’s what it is today.
WHY ?
When is international men’s day ?
Do we have one ? Do we need one ?
This divides the people,
it does not unite them.
Women are not equal to men,
and men are not equal to women.
Each gender is different,
each with its unique beauty and qualities,
contributing to the lives of us all.
Women are better than men,
men are better than women,
We need both for life to continue.
We do not need International Women’s Day !
Most certainly we do not need a Men’s Day !
What we need is a People’s Day,
Oh YES we do.
We need that every day of every year.
Thank You all women for what you bring to our lives.
Thank You all men for that you bring to our lives.
Do not divide these attributes and achievements’
nut celebrate all as vital parts of life.
Where is today’s SMILE
I hope I can hear you asking ? I have deliberately left it until I have been
through all that above. Here it is:
Not everything is
cancelled
Sunshine is not cancelled
Spring is not cancelled
Love is not cancelled
Relationships are not
cancelled
Reading is not cancelled
Naps are not cancelled
Devotion is not cancelled
Music is not cancelled
Dancing is not cancelled
Imagination is not
cancelled
Conversation is not
cancelled
HOPE is not cancelled
SPECIAL and worth waiting for.
Yesterday evening as I prepared for today I could not find the figures AGAIN for those who died with china virus so AGAIN I had to lay my head on my pillow not knowing who I was trying to send my love to.
The figure today is eighty-two. We can be pleased that the number has fallen so dramatically but we can not and must not celebrate this. Behind that number of eighty-two and the five thousand one hundred and seventy-seven new cases are the REAL people who are suffering in pain and in tears.
Politicians will be celebrating schools re-opening. The royal family will be getting underwear in a knot. Politically correct snowflakes will be celebrating international female day. Will any single person within these groups stop and think, stop and send love to the REAL people behind the numbers.
These
poems which I openly acknowledge are rubbish just will not stop flowing. I had
to stop writing today’s page when my heart gave me this.
LIFE NOT DEATH
Life is meant to be better than this.
The only certainty in life is death.
So why bring death into life every day ?
Death is a mystery,
but life is not.
Joy, happiness, smiles and love.
these are the components of life.
How many people are there alive on Earth today ?
More than I can count,
more than together we can comprehend.
Life is meant to be lived,
lived by all alive in the world today.
Do not kill life with sadness, sorrow and hate.
Do not cancel life with a premature shadow of death.
Let ‘s
see what was happening ON THIS DAY
shall we.
8th
March 1971: The fight between Joe Frazier and Muhammed Ali – Frazier wins in 15
rounds.
8th
March 1979: Philips demonstrates the Compact Disc publicly for the first time.
8
March 1983: US President labels the Soviet Union an evil empire. I THOUGHT THAT
WAS AMERICA !
8th
March 1961: Thomas Beecham, born 1879, died.
8th
March 1983: William Walton, born 1902, died.
8th
March 2003: Adam Faith, born 1940, died.
8th
March 2016: George Martin, born 1926, died
Thomas Beecham, Wiliam Walton, Adam Faith, George Martin what fantastic music they gave us.
Hopefully today I will finish IF MUSIC BE THE FOOD OF LOVE PLAY ON. Just another thirteen tracks.
Better get on then
Speak tomorrow
Dave
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