Jim Webster's Blog, page 43

Sheep may safely graze

So here we have it, snow! OK it’s not snow as Canadians would call snow, it’s not even snow as we call snow to be honest but it’s white, it’s almost crisp, and it isn’t quite thawing so quickly that it’ll be gone before this blog is written, so it’s snow.   And it has …

Elderly ladies drinking coffee?

It’s something we often forget, as we remember the superstars who pass away, that their contemporaries are still with us. Not only that, but at times we forget just who their contemporaries really are. You know what it’s like, I’d walked into town to the dentists, and then before I walked back, having bought train …

Just missed Amy Winehouse

What kind of love have you got? You should be home, but you’re not A room full of noise and dangerous boys still makes you thirsty and hot     It’s funny how some things just sort of pass you by. For example I’ve never been in an Ikea store. It’s not that I’ve got …

The Invigilator

Originally posted on Tallis Steelyard:
I’ve always felt that it is important to encourage the young, to drive young minds to grapple with the eternal verities which dominate the world of the arts. I learned my lessons young and am eternally grateful for the education I received from so many masters in the past. It…

A hard rain in the north

I’m about to break with tradition and who knows, I might even set a trend. Who’d believe it, a blogger ranting about something they know a little about?   So here goes. Some time ago I was involved in the Flood Defence Advisory Committee covering Cumbria and North Lancashire. It was part of the National …

The Mudfold and Cockeren Feud-part 3, by Tallis Steelyard

Originally posted on Daily Echo:
The third and final part of Tallis Steelyard’s explosive revelations… Part One and Part Two can be found by clicking the links. The Mudfold and Cockeren Feud Part Three As I have intimated before, Mesdames Mudfold and Cockeren were at daggers drawn over various matters. Indeed I’ve described the situation…

The Mudfold and Cockeren Feud-part 2 by Tallis Steelyard

Originally posted on Daily Echo:
The second part of the scandalous story of the feuding ladies of Port Naain, told by Tallis Steelyard, a poet of that city… The Mudfold and Cockeren Feud Part Two I did at the time entertain hopes that the feud might just fade quietly away, but I’d not allowed for…

A tough audience

Originally posted on Tallis Steelyard:
? In my mind, part of being a poet is in the performance. I know that there are technically excellent poets who write fine verse who never venture from their garrets. But I feel that to get your work known you have to perform it. So I feel that a…

Flooding

Yes, it’s Cumbria, we’re used to rain, but there are limits. So with the flooding, what’s happened? Well of course, if you want anything done, send in the army (and the other emergency services.) I saw one digger driver interviewed. Sick of being made to sit in their diggers because it was too dangerous, they …

The Mudfold and Cockeren Feud: from the pen of Tallis Steelyard

Originally posted on Daily Echo:
The tale is freshly penned, the ink barely dry and the tale as yet unpublished… and it is with inordinate delight that I once again welcome that renowned, if impecunious poet of Port Naain, Tallis Steelyard, as my guest, with a cautionary tale on the unexpected dangers of patronage and…