Pinch Punch First of the month !

DAY SIXTY: Monday  1st March 2021:

Good morning and welcome to pinch – punch – first of the month. March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb.  Well we’ll see.

SMILE OF THE DAY: F.E.A.R. has two meanings: Forget Everything And Run or Face Everything And Rise. The choice is yours.

I have used that before as our SMILE but the words are so powerful I think it is good to repeat it. Actually it is applicable to me. I went to bed fearing today was going to be a difficult day. I woke up thinking perhaps it will not be quite so bad. As each hour goes by and as I face each fear I am looking forward to having a very good day.

Another of my rubbish poems:

Life is a typo.

Yeh I make a lot of them.

Damn light touch keyboards,

and stupid American spelling.

Self-correcting systems implanting

Typo’s by the score.

But life is a typo if you do not make any

then you are not living it fast enough.

Sod the keyboard,

sod Americans who never did learn how to spell.

Let’s make lots of typo’s after all

there are those who take so much delight

In finding them !

 

So here I am writing, at least starting to write, the third edition of DAVE’S DIARY. Let’s see how many typo’s I can make over the next thirty-one days.

Both the January and the February editions of my diary are now on my Amazon bookshelf. Not that I am asking you to read them, you can if you wish but they are primarily for readers who open my time capsule on 1^st January 2021.

I am beginning this new month with 417,718 words under my belt in my one million word challenge. At some point this month I will hit the half million. I now have thirteen books published on Amazon since 1^st January so I am almost half way t o my target of twenty-eight.

Another poem from yesterday:

Oh what a glorious thing to be

A healthy, grown up busy, busy, bee.

Thank you Arthur Askey for sharing those words so many years ago.

People today will not understand.

In man’s  greed there are few busy, busy bees.

Soon to be extinct

how sad it can no longer be

a healthy, grown up busy, busy bee.

 

I am not too sure where to start today’s writing. Poems are added to DAVE’S POEMS as and when they burst into my heart so I can not plan them.

THERE YOU GO DAMN AMERICAN STUPID AUTO SPELL CHECKER !!!!! can and not are two separate words so why IDIOT MICROSOFT do you insist one telling me it should be cannot ? THICK IDIOTS.

I have to edit the text for our various quiz sheets to publish WHO NEEDS A PUB TO HAVE A QUIZ. Writing the individual quiz sheets has been fun but editing all into a book for publishing is a nightmare !

The best book I have ever written is THE BRIDGE HOUSE which was published on 28^th May 2018. It took me almost two years to write. I think my new project DESTINY’S SERVANT will overtake it. So far all I have written are six hundred and thirty-three words for the introduction. I am going to slightly change a few words then name the introduction: DANIEL WILLIAM ARTHUR BAINBRIDGE born 1^st October 1892 – died 3^rd November 1916, When I have finished the book you will understand. While Daniel is the central character throughout he remains in the background and does not become the narrator as I originally planned. In the next chapter the narration is handed over to Daniel’s younger brother but I have not given him a name yet.

When the china virus death figures were published yesterday I celebrated the fact that for two days running there have been no deaths in Milton Keynes where I live. There were, however, twenty-nine new cases. PLEASE can today be a third day in succession with no deaths. Nationally 6,035 new cases and 144 deaths. The figure is falling but until it reaches zero and china virus is extinct we can not be happy. I am sending my love here which even if you are reading these words on 1^st January 2021 I hope you will also wrap around with your love.

Shall we have a look at what was happening ON THIS DAY in years gone by ?  You up for that ?  Take it away Wikipedia.

1^st March 1950: In the Cold War Klaus Fuchs is convicted of spying for the Soviet Union.

1^st March 1953: Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin suffers a stroke and collapses. He dies four days later.

1^st March 1954: Nuclear weapons testing. The Castle Bravo, a fifteen mega ton hydrogen bomb is detonated resulting in the world’s worst radioactive contamination

1^st March 1974: Seven are indicted for their role in the Watergate break in and are charged with conspiracy to obstruct justice.

1^st March 1981: IRA member Bobby Sands begins his hunger strike in HM Prison Maze.

1^st March 1998: Titanic becomes the first film to gross $1 billion worldwide. THE TITANIC WAS A BRITISH SHIP SO WHY DO WE NEED TO USE DOLLARS AND NOT POUNDS ?

1^st March 2003: The International Criminal Court holds it inaugural session in The Hague.

1^st March 2006: The English language Wikipedia reaches its one millionth article. I AM SUCH A FAN OF WIKIPEDIA !

1^st March 2006:  Jack Wild born 1952, The Artful Dodger in Oliver, dies.

And so I approach the first page in my March diary. Let me share my March poem:

 

MARCH

March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb

March the hare month of the year when Spring begins to smile

Flowers start to bloom and trees do grow their leaves

Birds sing and new born lambs appear

For a lamb birth is death

A lamb will play in a field for such a short time

Murder and death await

As does mankind’s dinner plate

 

Now to remind you of today’s SMILE:

F.E.A.R. has two meanings: Forget Everything And Run or Face Everything And Rise. The choice is yours.

And with that it’s PINCH-PUNCH first of the month.

Speak again tomorrow.

Dave