Monthly Archives: February 2018

‘PROGRESSIVE’ MODERN MUSIC

Posted on February 25, 2018 by colonialist

  Wordle 340 No honey theme; crescendo follows gravity; Blood-shattering blues set teeth on edges; Bare discords rattle with depravity, And birds electrify so they fall off ledges. © February 2018 Colonialist.

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Owls of Terror and Stuff

Posted on February 24, 2018 by colonialist

I have been without telephone or internet for a few days, and catching up with stuff and stuff will now stuff my hours with the stuff of nightmares. Including the fact that I now have a new tablet, switching from … Continue reading →

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Treatment of wounds from fights with cockroaches.

Posted on February 22, 2018 by colonialist

Lately I do seem to be injured rather a lot.  I fall over things, or walk into sharp things, or use dangerous tools with insufficient caution. I have been so careful not to fall off things, like my ever-expanding jungle … Continue reading →

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This Simply Sucks!

Posted on February 19, 2018 by colonialist

 Our vacuum cleaners were destroyed By maids with regularity They too much weight on them deployed — A matter of great gravity; Industrial machine we bought, They can’t destroy this one, we thought, But soon a lesson we were taught: … Continue reading →

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The Call of the Sea

Posted on February 18, 2018 by colonialist

Wordle 339 From sand, follow wind with urge memory saves To shout ‘Outward bound!’ You miss the power and hunger of the waves — Madness of boundless sound. © February 2018 Colonialist

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No Change of Address

Posted on February 16, 2018 by colonialist

Un-presidented goings-on In SA with J Zuma gone, Last week the State of Nation thing Was scheduled for JZ to sing But Ram a Pozer has, instead, Now been the one to get it read; His laughter had become quite … Continue reading →

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Lateral Thinking with a Beam to make one Beam.

Posted on February 15, 2018 by colonialist

I recently boasted in a comment that I was good at Heath Robinson solutions to problems. (In fact, I should show the one I was referring to, some time soon.) I thought I would regale you with my latest. In … Continue reading →

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The Winning Card

Posted on February 15, 2018 by colonialist

In days of yore, a Valentine Was, incognito, sent. And this was then all good and fine, But who knew what it meant? When girl who would receive a stack, With face like back of bus, Sincerity, perhaps, they’d lack … Continue reading →

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For you, Senorita, I weel …

Posted on February 14, 2018 by colonialist

keel  … rescue … a-da bull … Bulbul! We keep (too many) rescue cats. We feed and encourage birds. There is a conflict, there, and inevitably the cats will nab one. Particularly with chicks, where the warning systems we have fitted … Continue reading →

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Monk or Monkey?

Posted on February 12, 2018 by colonialist

Wordle 338 Frozen; rope-tied robes; ‘saint’ rasping sermons hazy; Not of Earth; hands folded in gusts of piety; Holy? — No home; poverty — Wholly crazy! © February 12 2018 Colonialist

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