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War Remembrance Poem Reflection on Ancient and Modern Conflict

Reflection 42 of 242 Mirror Poems and Reflections mirrored Remembrance Day poem. The women referred to in the poem are those who supported the Taliban, not all women, before others mistakenly think it is about them.

Jihad John Groupies are Sadists Too

I thought they were putting religion before gender at the time, but having since seen Jihad John gain a groupie following I can now see that some prefer powerful male sadists to female heroine victims like Malala Yousafzai.

While I think it is strange, maybe they think it is strange when a man supports women who want equality for their gender?

They make me think it is strange too, but there are plenty of good women who deserve their equality.

Jihad Videos are Sadist Porn not Holy War

In fact, it was the Islamist penchant for sadistic porn videos that most put me of idolising the historic male warrior, from those like the Samurai and Maoris in the east to the Plains Indians and Incas in the west, via Mongols and Zulus in the middle. Not that I wouldn’t go to war now if needed.

The Jihadis revelled in showing the ultimate and real horror of sadistic pornographic warfare, and most cowardly misguided depravity of mankind.

It’s ironic that the disgusting videos have also proved a great recruiting tool for ‘nice women’!

Reflection 42

Afghanistan seemed a worthy war

fighting for freedom once more

but it was difficult to support in Britain

with women supporting their own oppression.

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Ukraine Fantasy Travel Philosophy Parody Comedy

The next episode of the XaW Files to be serialised dates from mid-January, and mixes a little philosophy, comedy and greenYgrey self-analysis literary nonsense.

Hi, it’s G.G. Howling, fiction writing correspondent at the greenYgrey inspired by Harry Potter wizard writer J.K. Rowling.

Blogging, Sharing, Writing, Editing and Selling

Sorry if the posts are getting a little less often, but with a lot of my fantasy colleagues having entered the XaW Files parody comedy world, and trying to complete that story taking precedence, we’ve got less time to post.

With limited time to write, posting blogs takes up time that could be spent writing the next episodes, but it does inspire us to edit them more, with the benefit of time spent in absentia, so it’s not all for your benefit… greenYgrey style… not to mention trying to sell our previous books at the end of the post!

XaW Files Chapter 3 Episode 16

It Is Just, It Just Is.

I awoke with the above words in my head, as if receiving a message from somewhere, perhaps even from the greenYgrey world.

A Deeper Form of Love

I asked Love the mixed-up Vole about it when it arose. Love said it sounded like French existentialism to it, but it didn’t know for sure. Love suggested we go to the Vernadsky National Library to check it out.

Love seemed to be delving deeper in thought since losing its sight. Plato said the highest form of love is wisdom, so they kind of connected in my thinking in a greenYgrey kind of way, so I took Love’s advice.

Visiting the Library

After arriving at the library we must have looked a little lost looking for the French literature section, because a gentleman kindly asked if he could help.

I told him about our journey, and that day’s thoughts and search.

He introduced himself as Volodymyr Popyk, the library’s director.

I thought how interesting, in a totally introspective greenYgrey way: his first name nearly has the same form as greenygrey, except there are only nine letters to my ten, with one letter less after the first y than in mine, and the second y in his name is the second letter after the first y, rather than the fourth like in mine; of course, it couldn’t be the fourth letter after the second y anyway, because there are only three letters in total after the first y in Volodymyr.

Strangely enough, but perhaps not as strange as most X Files episodes, there is a third letter y in the fourth position of his Popyk surname.

The Art of Adaptation

Volodymyr said they didn’t have a big French literature section, but he could show us around the Ukraine and Kiev history sections if we liked.

I said, ‘Well, when in Ukraine’; thinking about that old When in Rome chestnut; ‘it would certainly seem more relevant to learn something about the country we are in, rather than one we are not.’

‘That’s great,’ Volodymyr said, ‘and looking at your colours, I think I have something you’ll be very interested in.’

Three Elements of Ukraine History

Volodymyr took us to a map of Ukraine during the Kingdom of Galicia–Volhynia or Kingdom of Halych-Volynia, which peaked in the 13th century.

I could see what he meant without him saying another word, because the western half of the map was green and grey, while the east was occupied by the ‘Golden Horde’, creating a great greenYgrey image.

Volodymyr took the time to give us a detailed description of Ukraine at that time, and although I didn’t have the knowledge to know if he was entirely accurate, it certainly sounded authoritative, and I would go so far as to say… entertaining.

Although the map was my colours, the Orange Revolution of 2004 section Volodymyr took us to next seemed even more significant to me than the map; and I felt a similar surge of interest while being shown a Femen exhibition.

Did the Orange Revolution and Femen demonstrations achieve anything? I cannot answer those questions from the interesting information supplied by Volodymyr Popyk before he popped off to do something else, because I’m not a Ukrainian resident, and don’t even know if the greenYgreyvolution really exists!

References

The greenYgrey’s evolutionary theme, rather than revolution, was inspired by the eastern European colour revolutions in the mid-2000s.

Volodymyr Popov is the director of the Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vernadsk...)

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greenYgreying is a New Art Form of Readymades

Yesterday’s blog started out as an example of a kind of readymade, an art form I recently found on Wikipedia after first researching Slovenia after a XaW File from that country arrived.

Clarifying our ‘Feminism’

Not long after declaring that battery-cage mother-hens were not our target audience, but that they are most welcome, as long as they are positive, and that it is not necessarily a bad thing, or way to live, with some very nice and wholesome, but some annoyingly hypocritical I read on Wikipedia that an old 1940s magazine called VVV , which looks kind of werewolfie, had ‘a “readymade” by Duchamp as the back cover which was a cutout female figure within chicken-wire.’

Our ‘feminism’ is to free women from captivity or discrimination for themselves, in line with socialism, not to give them privileged status or make them more available.

Women should have the same rights as men, no more or less.

This website might feature some women more than others, in line with ethics, culture, interests and tastes. Other websites and publications do the same with women and men.

Readymades Conceptual Art

An article on Wikipedia describes Marcel Duchamp’s century-old art form:

“Readymades” were found objects which Duchamp chose and presented as art. In 1913, Duchamp installed a Bicycle Wheel in his studio. However, the idea of Readymades did not fully develop until 1915. The idea was to question the very notion of Art, and the adoration of art, which Duchamp found “unnecessary”. Duchamp said: ‘My idea was to choose an object that wouldn’t attract me, either by its beauty or by its ugliness. To find a point of indifference in my looking at it, you see.’

Example of a Duchamp readymade:

greenYgreyism and Yellowism

It seems to have inspired the Yellowist art movement of a few years ago, although I don’t know if the Yellowists reference them, and us previously and indirectly, with our greenygrey/greenYgrey project on a much grander scale (although the S9 video is better than anything we’ve done, and perfect to our artistic tastes !), using everything visible either side of the horizon.

readymade also has a certain greenygrey ring to it too! The XaW Files is turning into a journey of discovery for us, like coming home to a world we didn’t know, or a mythical land and psyche we knew only a little about.

Tonight on Google+, there were three quick and great examples of readymade greenygreys, now known as greenYgreys of course, and I thought I’d share them here as examples:

greenYgreying is an art form social media craze all life can join in with:

Nature can greenYgrey on its own, and here we have a great example of green, grey and yellow weaving within each other as nicely as our letters:

Sometimes, greenYgrey colours are combined with positive sentiments:

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Conceptual Art Becomes British General Election Musical Theme Satire

In memory of our beloved old colleagues Stephen Werewolfing, Howlin’ Werewolf and Werewolf Whitzer, who were killed off in the Charlie Hebdo murders for being too controversial in a world of increasing intolerance.

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On The Road Fantasy Ukraine Winter Poetry Wordplay Comedy

Winter seems a long time ago now, as we approach the middle of spring in the northern hemisphere, and the XaW Files world does too. So I thought we’d get closer to our travel questers with the next episode of our X Files parody to be serialised.

X Files Parody Comedy Episode

Hi, it’s G.G. Howling, satirical fantasy fiction correspondent inspired by Harry Potter wizard writer J.K. Rowling.

I think this is quite an epic episode too, mixing winter poetry with new versions of classic jokes inspired by this episode taking place on the edge of Kiev.

Chapter 3 Episode 15

Before I decided to split last night’s writing in two, after editing it in the morning, there was a beautiful clear sunrise, then the clouds thickened and I saw my first snow falling of this winter, and then it cleared again to blue skies and yellow sunshine, just like the colours of the Ukrainian flag. The morning weather inspired this poem:

Perfect Winter Morning

Flakes decorate dead bodies

salt shaken on slab

meat to the bone

warm character shorn

where once sunrise

had provided brightness

fried egg on the edge

cooked and served

just in time

ready for eyes

to eat up

before the main

serving first snow

this winter episode.

Heavyweight Mayor

‘It is vital I get across the street,’ said a chicken trying to cross the road.

‘I’d love to help you,’ said Love, ‘but I recently became blind, so it might be dangerous, although I sense you are a brave chicken, and not at all in line with the scared-chicken stereotype.’

‘That’s okay, chuck,’ said the chicken,

‘I wouldn’t want any glitches on the go,

because my name’s Klitschko…’

‘…I’m the mayor of Kiev following my long reign as the heavyweight boxing champion of the world. The end of my surname could be short for chicken, at least if I was living in a Spanish speaking country, where they’d call me Chico… maybe even Chico the KO, in line with knock-outs in boxing…

… I guess that by now most of you are wondering what my first name is, or even if I have one, or maybe that I’m ashamed of it, but those who know boxing might have noticed I’ve already used my Vitali first name in the first line of my appearance.’

Jack congratulated Vitali on his dialogue, and offered to guide him, saying it’d give him an excuse to get back On The Road… to ending this episode. As they walked across the road, Vitali said it reminded him of The Road movie, about a father and son travelling through a post-apocalyptic America.

From that moment on, I guess that’s how the most important chicken in Kiev described its experience to those who asked him: how did the chicken cross The Road with On The Road to end this episode?

References

The Road is a 2009 post-apocalyptic drama directed by John Hillcoat and written by Joe Penhall. Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning 2006 novel of the same name by American author Cormac McCarthy.

On The Road by Jack Kerouac.

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Grand National Heroes Help Horses

While retiring jockey A.P. McCoy is the main human interest in today’s Grand National, and the jockeys are all brave and talented sportspeople, the horses will be the biggest heroes, and any that don’t survive the tough race may particularly increase spectator and viewer interest in horse welfare.

Horse Welfare Remembering Battlefront

Unfortunately, one horse has already died this week at the Aintree meeting, with Battlefront dying heroically after falling at the last hurdle. Ironically, it was in the Fox Hunters’ Chase.

While the greenYgrey supports animal and human racing with the best safety and conditions possible, with Marc Latham taking part in endurance events that unfortunately have risks, we don’t support blood sports, and especially if they can contain a certain amount of sadism.

While most who ride hunting horses probably do it for the thrill of riding and the social occasion, there are those who have been seen to take pleasure from the horrible death of animals, and those animals often have the same intelligence and sensitivities as a small child.

Enjoy the Grand National

Thousands of horses are unfortunately killed for meat every year, and as recent secret slaughterhouse video footage of other animals in the U.K. has shown, they are often not killed in the humane way they should be.

Many horses are also still used in war situations around the world, and cruel work conditions.

So for horses to have been treated like stars and risk dying while racing does not seem so bad in comparison.

While we hope no horses die today, if any do, maybe they’ll make spectators and viewers think about horse and animal welfare, and like the War Horse film, keep horses as one of the most popular animals in Britain and the world.

Horse Riding Around the World

Just by chance, as far as we know, there was a great greenYgrey photo of horse riding in a MSN article about more leisurely horse-riding around the world today.

In line with self-parody thinking, this photo not only contains the classic ingredients of green and grey on the floor, and yellow in the sky, but also contains grey in the sky too:

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X Files Parody Poems from Kiev, Ukraine

Here’s the next episode of our X Files parody, XaW Files, which sees our travel questers still in Ukraine, but now on the edge of Kiev. It was written back in cold winter, which seems a long time ago now, with spring warming Blighty. The poetry is partly introspective and partly plays on famous Kiev cuisine and boxers, and the world champion Klitschko brothers led by Wladimir to be precise.

XaW Files Chapter 3 Episode 14

Taste of toothpaste

snowball of Love

crows cold outside

window of opportunity

seeing stars sparkle

curtains for you

to draw time

the day over

night just begun

half battery left

episode to write

poem a start

writing prose next

above all new

ideas for rest

revolving around chickens

a major boxer

remembering Russia link

arriving in Kiev:

Playing for Time

Sitting on the edge

of my mind in Kiev

at about five

writing this

as if playing for time

waiting for the battery

to run down

like the clock

for a boxer

ahead on points

in the later stages

of a fight

but I’m only

about four rounds

into a twelve-rounder

and I’m not really ahead yet

I haven’t done the groundwork

or even kept to the plan

just been jabbing and swinging

hoping for the best

but I’m still in there

Sitting in my mind

on the edge of Kiev.

That night I made it to the end of the battery, and over to the next page, which is the minimum finishing line for an episode in this book; okay, admittedly, this episode does have short lines. In fact, I wrote quite a lot more… so much in fact, that I made it into most of the next episode, before ending this chapter with this paragraph the next morning, extending the post a little farther into the next page.

When I write these Files up I have the same mental attitude as when exercising. I am the only one who critiques them, so I only have to consider myself as a judge, although of course I want to please you readers too, as I always hoped the next episode in a series I followed would be a good one.

So, please return (if reading the blog) or read on (in the eventual book) to find out what I wrote next the night before.

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Greening Britain’s Gardens and Photos from Air

The Royal Horticultural Society have launched a campaign this Easter weekend ‘calling on gardeners to get Greening Grey Britain’, as stated on their website. Meanwhile, there were many nice scenes of the Earth from the air on MSN News recently, and several were greenYgrey.

Royal Horticultural Society Green Britain Campaign

The RHS ‘call to turn grey to green through plants for health, happiness and well-being… Greening Grey Britain activities to take place across RHS work, including RHS Britain in Bloom to change 6,000 grey spaces into thriving, living green places by end 2017′ is close to our name and mission statement, but we didn’t have any input, and don’t know if the RHS have even heard of us.

The RHS have expert knowledge and experience in this area, while we are just general advocates. While we have been plugging away in our own little world for years, the RHS can hopefully make a real difference to create more green spaces. Whether this website had any influence doesn’t really matter, as long as the campaign is successful.

Britain’s Parklife

All of Britain’s public spaces are a garden to us, and most of Britain is still green. What it lacks compared to many European countries we’ve heard about on our XaW Files journey is trees, with many European nations still 40/50% forested, while Britain is 10/20%.

That would make Britain less green in winter, but we’d be willing to sacrifice that for the extra life and healthy air it would create.

And that’s one of the reasons why this website supports controlled immigration and forestry regulation. It would be nice to live in a totally free access country and world, but the reality is that a lot more forests would be cut down if that was the case.

National parks often have a visitor numbers limit to protect the natural world within, and in my ideal world Britain would be treated as one big national park, with wildlife habitats and numbers properly maintained in line with scientific advice about what should and could be living in a healthy natural Britain.

Photos from the Air

I don’t think large areas of Britain can aim to become the Amazon or Masai Mara, but the national parks of Europe and North America look possible.

Anyway, we’ve travelled a long way from the RHS campaign, and here’s a nice greenYgrey photos from the air, with plenty more old-fashioned greenygrey ones on MSN.

The ubiquity of greenygrey photos and relative lack of greenYgrey ones in the MSN article shows the importance of the sun to our rebranding, and it’s not in these photos from the air. As the photo above shows, leaves can provide the yellow on Earth.

Plants can also provide yellow, as seen in the photo below, but it is a rather sad one of uprooted trees.

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British General Election Politics Poetry Mirror Reflection

There was a party leaders debate last night in the U.K. before the May 7th General Election. I didn’t watch it, because I thought it would just be a few soundbites and spin. I watched the analysis afterwards, and apparently Nigel Farage of UKIP looked the best because he didn’t look manufactured in the political class system.

Labour and Conservatives

I was a lifelong Labour supporter until New Labour neglected its traditional supporters by crushing them between investment bankers and new immigrants. I have nothing in particular against bankers or immigrants, and respect those who are trying to make a better living for themselves in a fair manner. Unfortunately, there are some who only care for themselves, and are willing to screw Britain over to get what they want for themselves.

I think the present Conservatives-Liberals coalition government has done a good job in rescuing the economy and country after New Labour seemed to spend all the money. This site was built out of some of that money, so it wasn’t all wasted!

However, the Conservatives under Thatcher (and it’s not because she was a woman, with the women apparently doing well last night on the debate) did start the war against the working-class carried on by New Labour, with the miners’ strike particularly punishing.

UKIP and Greens

Disillusionment with the two main parties from the past, (although I think Cameron has done a reasonable job, and Labour have changed their leader and say they’ve learnt from the past, with Miliband apologising for New Labour’s mistakes, which is a lead to the mirror poem reflection main reason for this blog post) points towards either UKIP or the Greens.

I like some policies of both, and don’t like some policies of both, probably leaving me back in Labour territory if I trusted them not to return to the New Labour years!

The main problems I have with UKIP and the Green Party is to do with the issues outlined in my Earth Hour blog.

UKIP’s idea of Britain seems to be to build everywhere, and hunt everything, depriving Britain of some of what are and could be its best assets: its countryside and wildlife.

Ironically, the Green Party have an open doors immigration policy. The party seems to have a ‘be nice and hope for the best’ attitude, but there’s a thin line (like the central Y of greenYgrey) between nice and dim, reminiscent of the ‘Tim dim but nice’ Harry Enfield character.

Surely controls on immigration will benefit the environment. Millions more people will undoubtedly use up more energy, land and consume more; straining natural resources as they are straining social services.

Moreover, yesterday’s debate was on the same day as Al-Shabab Islamic militants murdered 147 Christian students in Kenya, after crossing a long porous border. This year has also seen Islamist incidents across northern Europe (France, Belgium and Denmark in particular), and ISIS beheading Egyptian Coptic Christians in Libya facing the Mediterranean, while threatening to invade!

And the social services are still trying to control a mainly Islamic child-grooming-abuse epidemic that should be a main talking issue, rather than hushed up and brushed under the carpet.

So Greens, is this really a good time to open up our borders? I know and you know that you and UKIP are single issue parties punching above your weight, and you’re not going to win the election, but having dim policies stops me supporting you.

Britain Should be a Reservoir not Stormy Seas

If most of the non-EU immigrants were Christian it might be something, but most are Muslims fleeing wars in Islamic countries. Most are families, and will probably just want to settle and live a peaceful life. Many have risked their lives travelling to Europe, and as a world-traveller I relate to their dilemma. The pictures of children holding toys are particularly poignant and heart-wrenching.

When I see those images I hope that they all find what they want, even if it’s filling up our already overpopulated continent.

But then when I hear about Britain’s nice, lonely, unloved and vulnerable children (who might have been weakened by the political class’s multicultural brainwashing and anti-racism obsession: I don’t like racism, but I think physical rape is worse than spoken racism) being groomed by promises of love and hope for a better future on an industrial scale by either new or second generation immigrants it makes me think we need stronger border controls rather than none at all.

Disclaimer: I don’t have any children, many material possessions, and despite becoming a doctor am still probably thought of as scum by many in the British upper classes, so I don’t write the above out of any big personal or national reasons: are our upper classes much better than the Islamic? Just a little I think. But most Muslims want to live nice peaceful lives.

Political Inspiration Mirror Poem Reflection

Anyway, here’s the mirror poem reflection, which mirrored Basket Case, which I think was the last of the 121 Folding Mirror poems in the book to be written.

It’s why I prefer Cameron to Thatcher, and not because of their genders. My favourite politician of the moment is a Conservative woman, and it’s not because her surname rhymes with greenYgrey!

Reflection 41:

Is not saying sorry

when you feel it

showing strength,

or spinning

against oneself.

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Weros to Tick or Tweet Horror: Just Great Writing

Greetings great greenYgreyliens. We don’t want to be your heroes or zeroes, just somewhere in-between, like maybe in alphabetically in line with our werewolfism: weros.

greenYgrey Life

Were (sic) committed to providing quality writing, while trying to preserve life while we are on Earth. We won’t be around for ever, so don’t want you to rely on us, or grieve when we leave.

We try to explain ourselves as much as possible, while retaining a certain degree of mystery. Our writing does not explain everything about us, but it tells you more than a social media like or post.

Random Research

I can imagine Negatives looking for negatives in all our blog posts or social media likes, but coming from a trained research background I (have also noticed changing into the singular) know that it is very hard to distinguish whether anything is positive or negative, or what writers and poets really mean.

Is my social media like because of the topic, it’s exposure or the writing. I may not like the topic, but like the fact that it’s being exposed. Or I may not agree with a writer, but like the fact that they are talking about the topic.

That’s particularly true for satires and parodies, unless the reader or viewer knows the genres. I can remember a couple of generally intelligent and relatively successful city workers not getting the satire of Borat at all: taking him at face value, thinking him homophobic, racist and sexist, rather than viewing Sacha Baron Cohen’s Borat as a satirical character (and liking Cohen’s work doesn’t mean I’m Jewish!)

I’ve seen people who look like model modern multiculturalists on quiz shows, who think Africa is a country, or can’t name a country in the continent!

But there are many topics where my knowledge is small or non-existent. I acknowledge that though, whereas many people seem to think they know media, politics, current and international affairs just because they watch headline news, or read some tweets!

X Files Parody Episode

Anyway, if you’re still with us you are probably a great greenYgreylien, and here’s another quality episode of our classic epic comedy with great drama X Files parody, which continues through Ukraine, with the intrepid travel questers back on the move.

Because our writing (returning to the plural although there is still only one of me!) is central to our place in the human world, although we prefer beautiful images, we’ve got bogged down at the end of Chapter 5 trying to make sure we create a fitting end, as we have done with most chapter endings, creating little books out of each chapter.

We think we’ve got it sorted now though, and will get on with getting out of Chapter 5 soon after posting this, although I just noticed we’ve spent nearly all the battery time writing this!

XaW Files Chapter 3 Episode 13

Thirteen episodes into the third chapter and we’d hardly got anywhere in only the second of five planned countries in this chapter; and Ukraine just happens to be the biggest wholly European one. Moreover, I’d originally intended travelling west to Poland from Belarus, and heading south instead had taken us to the heart of Chernobyl country, which seemed to have made Love blind.

Blind Leading the Blind

‘What would you like to do Love,’ I repeated from the end of the last episode; mainly to link them for your recall.

‘I remember the water sure looked nice,’ Love replied, ‘and it sounds even more refreshing now. I think I can even smell its cleanliness.’

I couldn’t begin to understand Love’s mind at this moment, or pretend to sense the water’s aroma, but I did agree the water looked lovely and refreshing, and it’s natural flow sounded inviting.

Love is a Battlefield

‘I agree with you Love,’ I said, ‘and cross-referencing the Google map with Wikipedia I think we can swim all the way down to Ukraine’s capital Kiev from here, about 100 miles south. Moreover, Kiev escaped the fallout from the 1986 disaster because the wind was blowing north, so we’ll definitely be beyond the radiation that seems to have affected you.’

‘I agree the water looks nice,’ Jack said, ‘but I think we should stick On The Road. It’ll be easier to guide Love On The Road, and keep it on the right track.’

‘I hear what you’re saying Jack,’ I replied, ‘but I think we should let Love decide our path, as although it has lost one of its senses, it still has its wits about it, and its first instinct was to use the waterways.’

‘I’ll go along with the majority view,’ Jack diplomatically replied, ‘that’s not saying I agree with you though, but I’ll do my best to get us to Kiev all in one travelling group piece.’

Finding Love in the Ukraine Waterways

We tied a rope around us to keep us together, and shook hands and paws wishing each other a safe and enjoyable journey. Then we packed up our troubles in our old kit-bags and smiled, smiled, smiled (that’s one smile each) before jumping as high as we could into the Ukraine water, and making the biggest splash possible when we landed on the water.

The water was indeed refreshing, and I was delighted to see that Love’s smile returned to its face as we rushed through Ukraine on the dynamics of the Dneiper (Dnipro).

We did have one mishap when we lost Love after the knot around its midriff came loose, and it disappeared from sight for a few frantic moments, but Jack dove down under the Dneiper’s surface, and soon found Love with the accuracy of a crackshot sniper.

References

“Pack Up Your Troubles in Your Old Kit-Bag, and Smile, Smile, Smile” is the full name of a British World War I marching song, published in 1915. It was written by George Henry Powell under the pseudonym of “George Asaf”, and set to music by his brother Felix Powell.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pack_Up_Your_Troubles_in_Your_Old_Kit-Bag

Love is a Battlefield was a Pat Benatar song.

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