our last summer I still see it all walks along the Seine laughing in the rain our last summer memories that remain I can still recall our last summer I still see it all in the tourist jam ’round the Notre Dame our last summer
*** Read a prompt suggested by Bjorn (https://brudberg.wordpress.com) to take the meaning of your name and weave a poem around it. My name, Kathleen, may be from ancient Greek of the goddess, Hecate. Some of the things associated with Hecate are crossroads, the moon, dogs, two torc...
Firstly I think it is worth mentioning that the IBT tests start at grade 3, meaning that Raven (who should be in grade 2) had to be tested on the year above her chronological age. Here are the results of the first round of tests; Significant increase in the percentile rating over 3 m...
Pictures of ‘Steamies’, tile clad communal laundries, were given extra meaning when we walked across Glasgow Green and saw the metal poles that would once have been connected by lines for people to hang their washing on, after visiting the steamie! The most dramatic building was a huge, o...
We haven’t come up with a family motto. We’ve done the family rules, but I love the idea of a motto. With 3 under 3 I say the phrase “make good choices” all day….but something about Be Awesome Today resonates with me. Looks like my husband and I need to have a late nigh...
Opposition to meat eating is communicated through the sounds of distressed animals and lyrics seeking to effect a rhetorical ‘redescription’, changing the meaning of meat from something harmless (‘the flesh that you so fancifully fry’) to ‘murder’. The Smiths 1763 Wilkes and Liberty (3...
Don't understand the meaning of the song? Highlight lyrics and request an explanation. Click on highlighted lyrics to explain. These break-up songs make sense again And I really wish they didn't. Sinatra's singing summer wind And I'm thinking of the night we met. Just one last tim...
More than 30 separate scientific studies in the last three years have shown adverse effects on insects from neonicotinoids, which are "systemic" insecticides, meaning they enter every part of the target plants – including the pollen and nectar which bees harvest. In January, the European Food Sa...
and drum machines. His lyrics are dense, thought provoking, sometimes political and a feast of narratives. You might be familiar ‘Two Free Hands’ or his Machiavellian take on local government politics in ‘Water Underground’, both from the Taite Music Prize winning album, ‘Leave Love Out ...
This morning the story seems to have new meaning and re-reading it gave me a bit of perspective and a smile. I’d like to share it with you as we begin a new day with gratitude for the moment that Wicca entered our lives and every day that we had with her after that. Fairy ...