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  Spring and Fall:     to a Young Child    Margaret, are you grieving    Over Goldengrove unleaving?    Leaves, like the things of man, you    With your fresh thoughts care for, can you?    Ah! as the heart grows older … Continue reading →

   And so as week 30 of the work at the lagoon ends, this saw the departure of the majority of the watercraft. Goldmember, minimember and Gullit. The underwater sand castles have ceased, the sand machine and the giant snake … Continue reading →

“It’s alive!” That fart smells MancThere comes a time in your life when you here a certain phrase and suddenly the meaning of life suddenly clicks into place. Mine was when I read the old Icelandic proverb “EVERY MAN LOVES … Continue reading →

  In Great Bridge, there was only one Fred Perry- and not the former more internationally known Tennis player. As a former Sandwell Councillor for The Great Bridge ward, Fred  was also a founder member of The Friends of Sheepwash Local … Continue reading →

He’s seen it all, watching the caged birds within doing tricks. That 70’s guy- a tribute. Click on the link and then come back to this page following the words and pictures down in time.     Raindrops keep fallin’ … Continue reading →

Musée des Beaux Arts About suffering they were never wrong, The Old Masters: how well they understood Its human position; how it takes place While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully long; How, when … Continue reading →

And so to more “silliness” concerning the covering over with some cloth and filling of sand disguised as “remediation” at the lagoon that has poisoned dozens of wildfowl thanks to a British dumped chemical weapon. I wasn’t aware that Albright and Wilson … Continue reading →

A country is alleged to have released a chemical weapon. People roll around showing clinical signs of a nerve agent in convulsions, and these are captured on shaky video. Local observers report what they see to the media and the … Continue reading →

   Ah the sites of the Rattlechain lagoon. Plenty of seagulls and sand in late Summer. I just need me deck chair and shades and the world could role by around me.          I nearly had a … Continue reading →

   Chaos: When the present determines the future, but the approximate present does not approximately determine the future. Edward Lorenz More chaos at the lagoon over the course of the last week, but not sure about where the theory will … Continue reading →