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I would be sorry if you did not return after a break, Paul. I have always found your contributions a breath of pragmatic professionalism to any discussion,
Go well,
David

I have had Parkinson's for the past 13 years.

It is a progressive disease and as part of keeping it controlled I've just been issued with one of these: ...

thanks guys,
there's plenty of information for me to assimilate.
D.

I am thinking of buying an internet radio
Candidates so far seem to be the VQ Susie Q or the Roberts iStream 2.
The cons for the Susie Q seem to be that it is mains only (although when I first...

Hi Zephyr,
May I join the party? (see my post above)
David

after all, when you think about it, life is an STI.
D.

I came across this thread a couple of weeks ago when I had just received my first consignment of CBD high strength capsules from Healthspan so I thought it sensible to wait a couple of weeks before...

hilly?
yes, which ever of the 2 ways in or out.
But fantastic place to stay.
David

We recently had a decorator paint a couple of rooms. I was intrigued by his watch, which he tells me cost him £20 in an unclaimed lost property auction several years ago. He says that at the end...

Ii like that - and dealing with real life issues,
David

I like this.
David

THE WATCHMAKER

Hour upon hour he labours, hunched before his bench,
To transform the humble ébauche into a calibre worthy of his name,
Adjusting and regulating with each added complication
To...

Just because you're paranoid it doesn't mean they're not out to get you.

D.

"Never attribute to malice that which may equally be explained by incompetence."

David

from the archive:

BREATH

It always used to thrill me when I heard my mother say

That something so delighted her it took her breath away.

She used the saying rarely and so everybody knew

and a sonnet:

COMMITMENT


Think well of us in times of joy or sorrow

And of our lives and of our love be proud.

We’ll live as though there will be no tomorrow,

Anyone watching "Troy"?

TAVERN SONG OF THE SPARTAN HOPLITES

Earth from earth to earth returning
From its sojourn in the light!
Fire and air of life now spurning,
Framed on either side by...

Just to prove I don't take it all too seriously:


Poetry

Poetry is easy; it always works out fine:

You just choose words that sound the same at the end of every line

And if the...

I like this, Tony.
You clearly have your own dark lady of the sonnets.
David

Is this a bit too intense?

Eheu Fugaces*

In the dark reaches of reluctant dawn,
half-waked by pain and dreams of what has been,
I stretch my hand and touch your sleeping form
to banish those...

A moment of whimsy:


Quantum mechanics for a childhood sweetheart

When we met again – thirty years after we failed to get it together -
You remarked that it was (in your words) a regret that...

ATTRACTION

The limpid look that leaves the words unspoken,

The lingering touch that speaks of things unsaid,

The secrets shared, their confidence a token

Of messages acknowledged but...

A little cynical - or perhaps not?

The Charity Administrator

He rises early as the day begins,
Salutes his God, acknowledges his sins
And sets about his allocated task
With purpose, that...

Well done, Tony, for starting this thread. I really like your introspective style, particularly in "The girl at the station" and "The Window". Is the love in "A chink of light" intended to be...

A different genre entirely: my first concert was the Chris Barber band with Ottilie Patterson at the Colston Hall in Bristol sometime in 1958 followed by meeting the band in the pub after the...