"Let Therefore the Next Friendly Contributor . . . Write Secretly . . ."
— Tony Rogers
Our editor’s quest for quietly enthusiastic input goes on |
In Memory
of Oscar — Joan Willmott-Clarke
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"I was soon to
realise that it was Oscar's soft whine that unsettled the animals. They
could hear it long before we approached them." |
Nostalgia for a beloved steed |
A Word in Your Pink Shell-like
— Harlish Goop
Not exactly everything you wanted to know about clichés, but still plenty to
be going on with |
Bread — Bet Briggs
The poet extols the joys of her daily bread —
words |
Where Three Ways Meet
— Bunty
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"Share in the secret world of astronauts, bad
musical genes, a
big hill, Gilbert and Sullivan, Hamlet, the London Underground,
shoes and traffic signals." |
Eight magnificently useless
pieces of information |
Clavierübung — Tony Rogers
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"Jane Campion’s The
Piano brims with haunting cinematographic images . . . The
instrument has just been landed with great difficulty, and as I recall
the scene now I wonder how much antipodean trouble a certain other
keyboard might have caused when it was brought ashore." |
Our Memorable Moments in
Music series continues with a piano story — with a few fifes and
drums thrown in, not to mention hundreds of sheep
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| Web Line —
Tony Rogers
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Quintessential Quirky Quotes
Comic and Classic, from
Everywhere and Everywhen
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From the Back Verandah
— Fizzgig
Some more about those ancient
Ethels |
