they tell me the high streets and shops have all gawn now but some say may be coming back - so confusing I bet Jem would have never let this happen in Dublin and the Liffe!!
down udder here we are havin hurricaanes and floods and still surviving not to mention excessive sunshine?? still good old labor govt in power that’ll show them and the tories are cracking apart as they are in UK heh??
There is just one politic here bret, the group just take it in turns to play good cop, bad cop 
It’s all about what suits any individual, at any given moment in time 
I started reading scribbles the other day from the very beginning - wow I was enthralled and transfixed - it was magic - just the right mix of idiots [goons] come together to make it work and of course Jem at the helm - it was and still is magic!! - but could we ever do it again - I doubt it?
Roll up roll up - a newly spruced up LS 2 and and half to see how far it goes!! - we deal with the living and the partly living and the morosed!! Since we all began as the crazy LS gang back in wow when was that - scribbles the man with the jackhammer you have been the note keeper when Did we start? - or rather when did we just tumble all in together? - we even had the most pleasure of a few dubious ladies and it became all good fun. there is no reason for the fun to stop of course - I recently wrote a poem:
My Daily Throne [well someone has to do it!]
I sit in the middle of my jungle home
surrounded by boabs as thick as a throne!
They stand 20 metres, reach to the heavens
Birds nest in their top boughs
Always freer than I
I sit early morn before sun has arisen
25 C is the high – not yet 40 C prison
Willy wagtails get cheeky
come as close as an arm
do their ‘rock and roll’ swivel
but won’t eat from hand calm!
I watch that old sun rise behind highest branches
and then it breaks through ; its glory enhances
it dazzles, bewitches but burns to the bone
time to rise; bid farewell – leave behind forest throne
The rest of the day is spent avoiding its rays
as it climbs very rapidly to 40 C haze
Aircons full blast all over the place
In the house ; in the car and that shopping mall place?
I wait for the end of that blazing old sun
‘round 6ish just vanishes like a half eaten bun?
Light the coils for the mozzis ; sit and repose
Sometimes dream of past lives; till they get on the nose?
Did I mention our very shy ; skittish young jumpers
Go by the name of ‘wallaby’ thumpers
they’re around early eve for the water left out
but they stand metres away
when they see my strange snout!
They move rather slowly as they forage the ground
they are ‘neat and polite’ eaters and their ears twitch around
I just sit ; dare not move and watch them with joy
but if I cough ; they move like lightning ; you should watch them ‘oh boy’
I sit through the closening haze as it deepens
sometimes see images of past loves I have meeten?
There is that moment between dusken and darkness
the ‘ghosts’ of the forest whisper ‘harken do harken’
Its then that a man can go simply more crazy
so clip the ‘coils’ stagger home just three steps a bit hazy
My artificial sun is now fully ablazen ; with world news
entertainment whatever my heart cravens? circa : anyone ; anyone ; anyone know?? somewhere in 2024 maybe jan or feb?? close heh!!
I watched that some would say great film other not " I’ll be seeing you" with son of curt douglas - Michael and the lovely actress Melanie Griffiths - didn’tt we all gruel over her!! - she lived a short and treacherous life with alcohol and drugs and died youngish. I am no told the film was called “Shining through” - we do they have to keep changing things?
I remember my ma and pa singing that song constantly it was driven into my cortex!! I am singing it now on my forecourt as I type!!
i do agree with the critics that it became a bit messy in parts despite me not see it all yet !! - OMG she exclaims!!! but read the hollywood critics and agree it did weave about too much - but that haunting melody and delicious Melanie has me won over!! - I am sure most of our moribond [elderly ] members would know it very well ; well at least spittie anyway - he knows everything - sshhsh he thinks he does!! - is anyone listening anyway!!
nearly lost it again - this internet moves so swiftly and is ambidextrous!!
Cracking poem, Bret.
R Mar told me about the dry oppressive heat us Brits can only imagine. They had some fella called Orson Cart who fetched water for them from a windmill away from the homestead. I never understood why grandad didn’t build it nearer to water.
I have a photo somewhere of their shade-house: a gazebo like structure made of woven twigs when it was two hot for the family to sleep inside inside the mud-cement house with a galvanised roof.
thank ya young fella -good to hear from ya again - ya what Ya Mar needed was this:
we have a great program you may have come across - Cross Roads - wanders right across OZ visiting the small country towns and villages well worth a watch - sure you can get it on Utube? if I ever got my chances again I would be out living away from the city folk among the bush folk and having a great time!
I think it’s high time I stopped intruding into other real poetic threads in the leisure and pastime section and begin a thread of my own for the less poetically talented where I can dump all me rubbish.
A pastime of mine is to scribble down anything that comes into my head depending on how I feel at the time (All within the rules of course) and it’s not fair to do it on someone else’s doorstep, so fare de well my talented friends and I shall be dropping in every so often to enjoy your poems and writings.
All are very welcome.
Oh to have a little place along the forum road
where I could reside and lay down my casual load
A story here or a silly poem there
bits and pieces going nowhere.
I’m tired of butting in on old RJ’s
despite the kind words he says
T’is not fair nor a nice thing to do
I do apologise to you.
Serious things give me no pleasure
I like to scribble at my leisure
So if you feel the same
please come and join me at my game.
In the past or present tense
doesn’t have to make any sense
be it a poem or just a letter
All are welcome the sillier the better.
Thanks Jem
Ha hahahaha - that made me laugh - the term winker comes to mind!!
wink wink - nod nod - Jem gave me the OK by the way! welcome to the n ew look LS(Pt2) maybe reaching Pt 3??
What the family had was this. It’s a shame there’s only half on it in the piccy, and the Galah is out of focus, but it was all tooked by a farmer, the Grandad I never knew, with nowt better than a box-Brownie.
yes life was simple in those days and hard and black and white includin the galahs!!
Got ta pondering lately why on earth all these female actors in particular at the great gatherings in usa wanna dress in the flimsiest manner - trying to pretend they are standing there naked perhaps? and then shreaks of indignation of some bit of clothing accidentally slips. I do think in many cases it must be glued on - quite happy to see the flesh myself of course - there must be a thin line between being completely naked and ugly? - and almost naked but divine?? not sure myself!
Yer can’t beat a Bird, clad in a duffle coat, nowt else, just a duffle coat (and Wellies maybe)!!
maybe some long black socks
No, they make my calves itch
Oh, now I can hear you all. I have just been fitted with a brace of battery operated ear-trumpets, and I can hear as clear as a … pardon? Who said that?
erhmm fruitcake - that was just the echo of a fart!!
Ok Ok remember this is the “lets keep Jem alive page” - and he was mad abo0ut fillums - I think I flashed the one with that sexy blonde usa actress and wots his name son " I’ll be seeking you in all those old familiar places - that my old heart still embraces all day through???“” that fella douglas -was it michael douglas?? - you know him - never mind - anymore fillums that were really goodies??
I keep watchin over and over and over again "guess who’se coming to dinner with sydney poiter and those two great old actors who were havin off with each other spency tracy and who wos it now - catherine hepburn was it - it was in b/w too and i can watch it over and over again - real life colour see??
and lets not forget " our little sister" my all time favorite japanese film
and then don’t forget "leisurely scribbles stickers for our new diaries all about leisurely scribbles|??
Oh yes, our Jem loved his classic fillums, and his music, and of course his wife of many years. He was such a romantic, and a loving family man.
I really enjoyed his stories of himself and the characters from around his neck of the woods.
I think the word ya searchin for is 'irreplaceable" maybe?? - yup I guess we all feel that one!!
I think Jem would have enjoyed this one and it does star Liam Neeson from Ireland but maybe the wrong end? It also stars another great british actor who doesn’t get enough accolades imo Kenneth Cranham who I have seen in many productions over the years. the adorable ladies were of course adorable but I cannot recall them that well - but I will say without a doubt that this has gotta be the best film I have seen for many months - a mix of humour and sexual encounters and thuggery ?? and a small but powerful cameo part from the guy who plays the stone deaf hubbie of the pharmicist in Doc Martin. Great stuff - watch it for the fun value only!! I know Jem would have!!
