Monthly Archives: January 2014

COLONIALIST CAPTION COMPETITION NO 5

Posted on January 31, 2014 by colonialist

  Does one compete avoiding hats? No, such would be no fun; A better competition, that’s, Which gets one to caps shun.  I solemnly undertake to try and run this one a bit more slickly, and not get side-tracked for … Continue reading →

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Reviewer Sued Rued Review Viewed As Rude

Posted on January 30, 2014 by colonialist

For cunning tries to publicise A novel writ by me, I need reviews to damn my eyes In style defamat’ry – Imagine if the fellow who Had thus condemned my book, I managed to proceed to sue And to the … Continue reading →

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Forgotten Caption Competition Winners

Posted on January 29, 2014 by colonialist

Taken from the days of pre-history and legend, there was a theory that Colonialist had run a Caption Competition based on the above piggy portrait. Documents from a dig in Durban have now been unearthed which confirm this as a … Continue reading →

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Our Adenium ended up doing a multiflora.

Posted on January 28, 2014 by colonialist

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Brief Book Review – Remarkable Creatures – Tracy Chevalier

Posted on January 27, 2014 by colonialist

  I have, within a few days, completely read a book which I would never have believed might grip my imagination in the least.  It deals with two spinsters in the early nineteenth century.  Mary Anning is ‘working class’.  Elizabeth … Continue reading →

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Really Awful Missed Takes Would Be Wrong

Posted on January 26, 2014 by colonialist

   So many posts, so little time, As SidevieW‘s theme was set, Should form the subject of this rhyme – But I’ve not got there, yet!   🙂 For all the deathless prose I’ve missed While internet was out, I must … Continue reading →

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Juxtaposition – Black and White, Frog and Dog, Street Renaming

Posted on January 25, 2014 by colonialist

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CUT TO THE SLOW …

Posted on January 24, 2014 by colonialist

    Power cuts are now to be Seen here intermittently; After parts of every tree Were removed, the lines to free, Lightning fried a vital part Inside a substation heart, Blasting the whole thing apart, Not allowing a re-start; … Continue reading →

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REALLY UTTERLY REVOLTING RHYME

Posted on January 23, 2014 by colonialist

Had netlessness for most of day: Our power was curtailed; The cutting-off of trees away From lines, was why it failed.  The opportunity was took Defrosting fridge to do, And also, then, to take a look At D I Ys, … Continue reading →

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MINNIE-NOT-A-MOUSE

Posted on January 21, 2014 by colonialist

Meet Minnie.  She is currently a houseguest after flying up from the Cape with Son-in-Law’s mother for the recent sad events. Of course, as you can imagine, it is a tremendous inconvenience having such a massive animal blundering about the … Continue reading →

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