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easterbunnyOr 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.
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.
