Monthly Archives: July 2018

Cheap Holiday

Posted on July 30, 2018 by colonialist

The selection of words for this week’s Wordle effort, given my aim of adding fewest words, using the words in order, and creating a rhyme with some sort of sense (although sense is not important), is utterly fiendish. Cruel. Sadistic. … Continue reading →

Posted in Africa, Poems, Really Awful Rhyme, Rhyme, Wordle | Tagged Colonialist, lake holiday, quilt on pine needles, Wordle 362 | 8 Comments

With My Mother, in a Ship, on a Trip, Another!

Posted on July 29, 2018 by colonialist

Originally posted on Leslie Hyla Winton Noble:
The whole family went to see the film last night. We had heard from young R’s godfather in England that when he saw the show shortly after the movie opened the audience clapped…

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Anniversary Waltz with Music

Posted on July 26, 2018 by colonialist

The words I posted on the anniversary of when Much Better Half and I met are far better as a tale of romance when accompanied by the music. As I mentioned, that had been lost in the move, and so … Continue reading →

Posted in Africa, Composition (classical), Excursions, Music, music composition, Personal Journal | Tagged Anniversary waltz by LHW Noble, Anniversary Waltz lyrics and music, Colonialist, YouTube Anniversary Waltz | 17 Comments

No Two Ways About it, even if there are!

Posted on July 25, 2018 by colonialist

Originally posted on Leslie Hyla Winton Noble:
All readers owe it to themselves to grab this one. On Christmas Day last year I announced that Split Decision by Carmen Capuano was now available as a South African print in…

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Better than fourth-coming (I hope) attractions butting into book announcements.

Posted on July 21, 2018 by colonialist

The book editing/publishing scene is busy-to-hectic, and there is much news to impart. It needs some time in which to do it, but attendant flapping around plus the intrusion, tomorrow, of an all-day swimming gala means justice cannot be done … Continue reading →

Posted in Africa, Grandchildren, Personal Journal, Swimming, Theatre | Tagged author news coming, chilly swim, Colonialist, theatre audience press mention. | 2 Comments

Something to Hoot About

Posted on July 19, 2018 by colonialist

That was just for fun and to reintroduce the topic of my writing and that with which I am associated. In which connection (drumroll) you may recall a certain post about a certain Decision that followed one on Christmas Day … Continue reading →

Posted in Africa, Books, Cartoon inventions, Children's Fiction, Current Affairs, Wordplay, Writing, Young Adult Fiction | Tagged Colonialist, Decision, Rufus Owl, Trump a Marxist | 3 Comments

A Monstr-house-ity Grows …

Posted on July 18, 2018 by colonialist

After all the pruning I did, there is an eddy-fuss growing on the edge of the slope designed to block out more of our view including a large chunk of what I cleared. It will probably obliterate another section of … Continue reading →

Posted in Beach, Personal Journal | Tagged blocking seaviews, bribes for bylaw transgressions, Building restrictions ignored, Colonialist | 13 Comments

Macbeth in Toyland

Posted on July 17, 2018 by colonialist

Dub ill, dub ill, Toyland trouble, Buy a fern, and called Ron ‘Bubble’: (When witch had called poor Noddy sick, Sold him a fern to get well quick, But fern belonged to guy called Ron — Frothed at … Continue reading →

Posted in Humorous rhyme, Parody, Rhyme, Wordplay | Tagged Kirsten Morrison, Noddy and Macbeth, Parody on Macbeth song, Witches and Double Double | 3 Comments

Really Awful Rhyme at England Getting the Boot

Posted on July 13, 2018 by colonialist

— I have now deleted the draft and entirely reposted… — — Yesterday I posted the following after posting the night before, but no post seems to have been posted. What, I wonder, is going on? Will this also vanish … Continue reading →