Well, it’s been a thought-provoking day.
It started when I wrenched myself from bed and took Julia to work. The mornings are already significantly darker than they were a month ago. By 6.15 I was taking photographs by the roadside and at 6.30 arrived at the services ready to collect Number Two Son. He was supposed to be off shift at 7.00 but nobody turned up. Eventually he was relieved at 8.15 after ringing round.
I tried to pass my time profitably, by writing haiku and watching people. The people-watching didn’t go well as there was nobody interesting to watch, apart from a hairy middle-aged man wearing only shorts and flip-flops. Even that wasn’t really interesting, just an anthropological footnote.
The haiku? They soon degenerated into my favoured format – the clerihew. I didn’t produce any of note this morning but this one has been hanging round in the drafts for a while. It features a Japanese word so it’s a hybrid form I just invented, the haiklerihew.
Martin van Buren,
was au fait with shitsuren,
and, stressing ideology over personality,
opened an era of boring banality
It’s a niche market and I can’t help feeling I may have written more haiklerihews than the world needs.
Now I just need to use canicular.
Then I did laundry, shopped, snoozed and picked Julia up from work. We had salad for tea. We were going to have roast vegetables and belly pork but I fell asleep in front of the TV and it was a bit late to start cooking.
I can’t help feeling I’m not using Sunday to its full potential.
Strange clouds over the Trent Valley
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I am a distant relative of Rutherford B. Hayes. Be careful what you write about that one. 😉
He seems quite an interesting man, and there are worse ancestors to have. 🙂
shitsuren van Buren A+
Thank you. Combining my love of bad poetry, obscure words and politicians, this was a high point in my life. My readers may. or may not, feel the same. 🙂
My Sunday was seriously underused too.
I will check on that later, but I suspect it was better used than mine… 🙂
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Anyone who gets off out that early on a Sunday deserves a later kip. I like the sunsets
🙂 Thank you Derrick.
Salad is always a good standby!
Hmm. Salad. I am, to say the least, ambivalent about salad.
Oh, I don’t know. Sounds like Sunday was pretty productive.
Very good! You are a poet and I didn’t know it. 🙂
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What a landscape you have. It looks like the prairie. As for clerihews, and shitsuren, I have learned new words today! And goodness, I haven’t thought about Martin Van Buren for some time…Would need to look him up to refresh my memory.
He was president at an interesting time. 🙂
Good photographs.
🙂 Thank you.
You are Welcome. 🙂👍
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