Comments on: “Welcome!”

By: Lydia

Lydia — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

How lovely! You must remember some poems – what about the Spike Milligan one where the cows go bong, or this little one which I guess you know – it’s funny how beetles and creatures like that, can walk upside down as well as walk flat, while I have been trying for a year maybe more and still I can’t stand with my head on the floor – perhaps that’s a bit short – or the Highwayman – or – I’ll shut up now! Enjoy!

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I can remember Ozymandias, and Poe's El Dorado, and most of Spike Milligan's one about a Baboon trying to fly to the sun.

What does it say about us that the poems we remember best are by Spike Milligan?

By: Cad

Cad — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Mark,

I really did enjoy reading that entry.
Your Blog reminds me so much of "My Family And Other Animals" by Gerald Durrel, not the content, but the intimate way you describe your experiences and the richness of description.

I do miss dear old Spike, bless him.
It is rumoured that he wished for the following words to appear on his headstone:

"See! I told you I was ill!"

By: Thaths

Thaths — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Brilliant!

This is goose-bumpingly (in a nice way) beautiful.

Thaths

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Aha!

"Silly Verse for Kids" (collection of Spike's poems) was one of my favourite books when I was a kid. I can probably still remember half a dozen of them.

My other favourite, probably more influential, was the Ladybird book
"Magnets, Bulbs and Batteries"

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Thaths, you're probably the only person who can really appreciate why I wrote "spine tinglingly" in this. Until you've been here and heard them/met them....

C'mon guys, who's going to be my first visitor?

Magnets Bulbs and Batteries! I had that too.
I hand-wound an armiture for an electric motor with cotton-insulated wire on a cork mounted on a needle with two crossed nails at each end to support it. It rant too, though my big horseshoe magnet was rather feeble. I had to have 8 D-cells in series (also nailed to a piece of wood). Ah them were the days.. the days before diodes.