Jane Jago's Blog, page 18
June 4, 2025
A Word of the Day – Observation
In an effort to educate the nominally literate and inform those with sufficient humility to understand their own lack of comprehension, Esme offers the correct definition of misunderstood words…
Observation(noun – pronunciation note: ob-serve-a-ton) Obstetrician’s plate at an eat all you can buffet.Example: Dr Smith balanced a profiterole on top of her observation to the amazement of colleagues.(noun – pronunciation note: ob-survey-shun) The exclusion of obstetricians from opinion po...
June 3, 2025
The Pearl
No matter if you travel ever so far away
Beyond the furthest shore,
Or on to what strange places your steps may one day stray
In ever seeking more.
No matter how many worlds you seize, for greed and gains,
On which your flags unfurl.
Always still, so deep within your mind, your home remains
A sacred, precious pearl.
Eleanor Swift-Hook
June 2, 2025
Ponies and Progeny: Celebration
Ponies and Progeny or the graceless art of equine management as envisaged by the pen of Jane Jago and inspired by the genius of Norman Thelwell (1923-2004)
Today we consid er the correct way to celebrate…
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June 1, 2025
Sword
A blade as bright as dawning
And subtle as a kiss
Fine and sharp as hatred
So sibilant its hiss
A sword has no ambition
No loyalty, no home
Answers neither friend nor foe
Cuts either to the bone
May 31, 2025
Piglock Homes and the Affair of the Dartymuir Dog – 6
Join Piglock Homes and his sidekick Doctor Bearson as they investigate the strange affair of the Dartymuir Dog…
When he had finished writing his message, Homes swung out of the carriage and along the swaying corridor.
“Where’s he off to?” Yore asked
“At a guess, he’s gone to ask the guard to send a telegraph.”
“Yes. But. Who to? And saying what?”
“Surely that should be to whom, old chap. And I have no idea.”
Yore huffed and puffed a bit.
“I don’t suppose it would be any manner of notice asking Home...
May 30, 2025
Prunella’s Kitchen – The Fundraiser
Prunella teaches you how to cook like a toff!
You know there is something seriously wrong when the Hon Rodney comes home with the following: flowers, champers, chocs, and a guilty grin. If it isn’t April he probably doesn’t want you to do your wifely duty in the bedchamber, so you should be prepared for the worst.
The silly ass will have volunteered for something that he knows you are not going to like. It could be any one of many things, but my particular bête noir is the fundraiser in t...
May 29, 2025
100 Acre Wood Revisited – Not Exactly
Things are not quite how you might remember them in the 100 Acre Wood for Christopher Robin, Pooh Bear and their friends…
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May 28, 2025
A Word of the Day – Saturnine
In an effort to educate the nominally literate and inform those with sufficient humility to understand their own lack of comprehension, Esme offers the correct definition of misunderstood words…
Saturnine(proper noun, pronunciation note: sat-urn-nine) Godling from Roman mythology, ninth son of the god Sat (the deity charged with the welfare of pottery and pot makers) often pictured decorating an urn.Example: Saturnine could be seen in the fresco decorating his father’s urn.(noun, pro...
May 27, 2025
The City Lights
The city lights, alluring stars that cast a glamour
Drawing in, like moths to flame, to city clamour
The restless young, in search of something so bright and grand
Romantic dreams of sweet success and a life unplanned.
Like froth on waves of rising hope and cappuccinos
The bright light sears their souls and draws them into shadows.
And here the old do stalk, eyes dulled, charred by shining lies
Their lost humanity sunk too deep to hear the cries
As all about the city predators swoop and dart
Whilst c...
May 26, 2025
Ponies and Progeny: Disharmony
Ponies and Progeny or the graceless art of equine management as envisaged by the pen of Jane Jago and inspired by the genius of Norman Thelwell (1923-2004)
Today we consid er the consequences of disharmony between mount and rider…
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