24-hour photo challenge, with your guest presenter, [livejournal.com profile] easterbunny

Dec. 1st, 2009 07:15 pm
hirez: More graf. Same place as the other one. (psyche-out (ii))
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Or something like that.

I was challenged with '4 x the illustrated Betjeman', which was rather good fun.

We begin with the poem 'Bristol', which contains the verse

Ringers in an oil-lit belfry - Bitton? Kelston? who shall say? -
Smoothly practicing a plain course, caverned out the dying day
As their melancholy music flooded up and ebbed away.




'In a Bath Teashop'. Obviously.



After that, things became a bit random.

'How to get on in society' begins like this:

Phone for the fish knives, Norman
As cook is a little unnerved;
You kiddies have crumpled the serviettes
And I must have things daintily served.


... and carries on in similarly splendid vein. I don't keep fish-knives, a cruet or a bog-cosy, but I know a shop that does. Probably.



Finally, this:



Guess. Go on.
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