Hoorah! Hoorah! It's a happy, wonderful day!

I haven't written a blogpost for years but I'm so utterly ecstatic about what has happened in the USA that I have suddenly found words.

Watching Trump from the UK, aghast at the horrors that man has said and done, it has seemed a long 4 years since he was elected. I honestly thought someone would 'deal' with him and early doors at that. We have our own troubles this side of the pond of course wit Britain Trump, but he has been significantly outshone in his efforts to divide us by the other ridiculously coiffured toddler. 

For about 7 weeks now my husband and I have been glued to CNN, t.o that point that our sitting room is now known as the situation room. It's been amusing to find that we have been joined by hordes of others across the UK this last week till CNN is now popping up in every other sentence. I suppose the fact that we had entered our second lockdown meant that we all had a yearning for drama, a sense of community and a shared experience. Well we got it in spades with a 5 day wait for the results

Anyway, it's fantastic news that Trump is on his way out, even if he has to be dragged out kicking and screaming.

 We have been cheering Biden and Harris on this long time and it’s an unbelievably amazing beacon of hope amidst all the gloom and populism to see the USA choose to overthrow the malign forces of hate and division in favour of unity and working for all, with an internationalist outlook. I’m so happy for you USA xxx

Lines of Love

We met on the line. The online line

The telephone line, the broadband line

All those lineless connections to something divine

 

We met at the station, my suspendered heart pinging

My mind madly racing, my hands all a wringing

But we saw. We hugged.....How my soul started singing......

 

We talked, we laughed, my heart a beat missed

As you took me in arms, and we finally kissed

You tied all my heartstrings right up in a twist

 

We went to a seshun. Time melted away

Accompanying our heartsong, the instruments played

They jigged while we reeled, fell into Love’s sway

 

You stayed many days and together we grew

A heady love poem, intense passion long due

Fore we met at the station, we knew the verse true

 

You watched as I cooked a dinner for two

Laughing, explaining each gesture, each moue

Knowing the why of whatever I do

  

Wrapped up in a sofa, Cafe be-latted,

Inhaling the love drug, we laughed as we chatted

Addicted to love, now we’re each other’s habit

 

So.....

            we met.......

                                   crossed the line, and in no time at all

A place called a-bliss is what cushions the fall

Of the love which is holding us deep in it’s thrall

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Let me be your nursemaid

The pourer of your Lucozade

Don’t want you NHS delayed

Or in a starchy bed, a-frayed

 

I’ll take you back to Betterland

Intravene love thro your dripstand

Have your undesired world banned

Hold your canulated hand

 

I’ll read to you to make you free

Of that which ails your poor body

Make potato cakes for your tea

Together we will sit and be

 

You’ll only have to ring my bell

And at your bedside I shall dwell

I’ll do all this to make you well

But only cos I’m selfish as hell

 

You see............

I long to kiss away your pain.....

Embrace  the youness of you again

 

 

 

 

 

Rumpers Captures a Pixie

I escaped from the city. It had become drear. A grey, dirty, treadmill; an endless cycle of work and unconvincing play. My life trudged on in a disturbing, angular, increasingly familiar and yet less familiar setting. Taking courage and my family, we settled ourselves amid the enchanting Mendip countryside in an old inn with an acre or so attached. But that’s a tale for another day......

 So here I am, lucky enough to be immersed in a beautiful and alluring landscape with an eccentric scattering of historic, fascinating villages and towns. Mells for example, is a medieval village dotted with an array of stunning stone houses, sporting their telltale green front doors, the tale being that the village is organised still in a kind of feudal system under the auspices of Lord Oxford. Two miles away is the village of Nunney with its’ 13^th Century ruined castle with moat intact and gothic village prison and a cast of characters you might find in an Agatha Christie novel. Well, an MC Beaton anyway.

 But most intriguing of all is Glastonbury. I go there regularly for work and I love the drive there. This morning was a typical example of the simple yet heart-soaring pleasure of it. An early frost was followed by a thick mist rising from the land. As I rounded the bend towards Pilton, the fields of Worthy Farm were covered in a beautiful white wispy froth with trees atop the Mendip hills, forming a photo perfect backdrop. As I neared Glastonbury, the beautiful drama of the chapel rising from Glastonbury Tor amidst the haunting mist, gave me a lift that has endured all day.

 Then the town itself is the maddest place. Forget Iceland and W H Smiths. This is the place to find quirky little shops selling broomsticks, gongs, the latest witchy fashions, books on healing the psyche of bees and so on. Ah, but to be honest I don’t really get all that hippy, witchy thing. It’s far removed from my way of being. And well, it’s fair to say that on a trip to Glastonbury I can hardly resist a little mischief, a game with myself, spotting some of the towns’ wizards, witches, goddesses etc, in a “Hooo-ly Fuck, you canNOT be serious” sort of a way. WHAT?! Ah sure, the feckless wastrels claiming love and peace for everyone that they don’t actually seem to give......

 So.

Imagine my delight one morning back in July, when I unwittingly got to hold one of these strange creautures captive while I interrogated him. Hah!

It was raining heavily as I drove into Pilton. I couldn’t hear the wipers squeaking as they hurried back and forth across the windscreen, because Melody Gardot was giving it some on the car stereo. While the rain lashed down in a blur, I noticed a somewhat rain sodden, deceptively normal looking guy, wearing a bomber jacket and green trousers, standing on the side of the road. He was hitching a lift and I felt sorry for him getting drenched so I pulled over. I’ve been told off about giving people lifts, but I worked in the community in Tottenham for 20 years so I can look after myself. And when I see a poor devil getting soaked I sometimes give them a lift. Well into the car pops your man, and 3 seconds later I begin to regret my kindness as there is a smell reminiscent of the hen shed. I realise he’s pretty wasted and he has ceased to function at full throttle from years of "overdoing it". His speech is affected too, so it’s hard to make out what he is saying but the conversation goes like this:
 
Lady R= LR

Green Trousered Eejit = GT

GT: “I look after the earthen people.”

LR: Looking up with a glint in her eye and seizing her opportunity: “Really? How exactly do you go about doing that then?”

.............5 minute pause while he thinks.........
 

GT: “I look after the Goddess and commune with the flowers.”

LR: “Ah-hah, Mh-huh.... Are they the earthen people?”

GT: <Indecipherable>“I have to marry into fairyland.”

LR, getting into her stride now: “Ok Cool. How do you go about marrying a fairy, do you use a fairy dating agency?”

GT: *giggles* “No, it’s the fairies that does it. I'm married to a Goddess.”

LR: “Ah, did you have a lovely fairie wedding?”

GT: “Nah it's not like that. I haven't got a girlfriend”

LR under breath: “Really. Well, if you’re married to a Goddess, does that make you a God?”

GT: “No” (rolls eyes) “I'm a Pixie.”

LR: reeling slightly: “Wow! What defines a Pixie, what's the criteria?”

GT: thinks for 3 minutes : “You wear green.”

 

Dear Reader I'm sorry but I just burst into peals of laughter. To be fair, the Pixie was laughing too.

He asked me my name and I didn't want to tell him but unfortunately the first name that sprang to mind was Titania as I happened to be playing that part in the Nunney Players production of Midsummer Night’s Dream. The pixie knew that Titania was Queen of the fairies. He looked at me somewhat suspiciously......

By now we had arrived in Glastonbury so I bid him farewell. He moved in for the thank you embrace. I shot him my best "GET OUTTA MY PERSONAL SPACE YA DIRTY PIXIE!" look which he registered, so instead he took my hand and kissed it. Awww bless him. He got out. I dived for my industrial sized pump bottle of alcohol gel. Luckily it wasn't on the passenger side or he might have drunk it.

He's probably sitting in a fairie ring somewhere, telling the tale to fairies and godesses who are all laughing at the weirdo who thinks that she is the Queen of the Fairies......