.. and so the last Nether Oak Close is done.
Number 21 . home of Carol and Sandy who have a unfinished song …
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The Diwali Lotus
This is not meant in any way as “tokenism” but Number 12 is the home of the Patels a family of Gujerati heritgate, and this is their Diwali story
Paul’s lost words
An Elegy for Civilisation
I am a big fan of WB Yeats , particulalry when he goes into full elegy mode where he shifted from the austere celitc romance to an ambivalent tone blendinhg personal emotion with public despair.
After a period of doomscrolling yesterday I threw on my imaginary donegal tweed waistcoat, grabbed epigrammatic blackthorn walking stick and went looking for words these are the ones I found .. aplogies to WB and my sister Janet who was better with words in verses than me
Sidney and the Time Travelling Toilet
I was, as we all do daily, sat doing my buisness on the toilet when I realised that the toilet is the one place we all visit, “Hopefully” everyday. It is an anchor in the river of time and as such is a perfect thing to become a time machine. .and so I give you “Sidney and the Time Travelling Toilet of Number 19 Nether Oak Close
New Variables
Stick and Stones
The Truth About Elegance
One of my “heros” is Leonardo Da Vinci, and while tiding my man cave I came across a book of my fathers about Leonardo’s life.
One phrase came out of the text
“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication” and it set me thinking on what is elegannce
Birthday memories
Questions need answers
I was wondering what it would be like to be able to answer any question and this Nether Oak Story appeared