General Chat

I came across a poem by Gwen Harwood yesterday, containing two verses which I think covers the book nicely, even though the poem was published in 1996.

These verses are from the poem 'The All-Purpose Festival Poem'

'Or perhaps it's the feathered creature
who slept when the night was done-
Unlucky the owl, poor witless fowl
to be shot with my father's gun

But fiction glitters on fiction
and truth was a clerical grey.
I really was not a remarkable shot
and the real bird got away'

She was in fact admitting that her earlier poem 'Barn Owl' in which she describes wounding, then having to kill, a barn owl was based on fiction, not fact.

The wording of the opening two lines in second verse above is very apt.

I agree! :-D

Those two lines are very apt.

I don’t think there is anything that the family could say that would actually resolve the problem. Keeping quiet and letting the child scream it out is often the best option.

I am heartily sick of the pair of them and Harry’s latest attempt to goad William and Kate into action by mentioning Charlotte and Louis is, to my mind, despicable.

I watched the film and thought that H has been trying to goad his brother all along.

H is lucky that he was only grabbed by the shirt collar and thrown to the ground as many other siblings would have taken a good swing and really knocked him flying.

All power to W for ignoring the constant goading and standing firm. I really admire the fact that William, Kate (and Charles) have retained their equilibrium and refused ‘to bite’.

I wonder what little gems we’ll hear from Netflix, H and M next. It’s as if there is an attempt to bring down the monarchy - beware, we could end up with President Boris Trump!

Charles not flying out to see Harry does not look good either! Some father eh? Especially as Harry has had vile comments directed at him re paternity from the media and public since he was no more than a child.

If the 'king' was my father I'd disown him and the rest of his awful family.

:-S

Sorry Island, Charles not flying out to where?

Is H in hospital or has he been in an accident, Island?

This is really just a story of the dynamics of inheritance in a family business coupled with devastating loss in childhood.

Also of where in the line of children you are found.

The same story could be told by many families either in part or whole.

Names (3rd child of 4)

That's so true, Names.
Just thinking about my childhood - I'm the youngest of 4 - the others are 5, 6 and 7 years older..
Without knowing it, my brothers taught me the basics of physics.
They'd build a go-cart. I was always the first to have a go - always down a steep slope. I thought I was lucky!
No. I realised, as I got older, that they were checking the brakes.
Lightest first, then my sister, and if the brakes worked, and the go-cart stopped, we never got another go on it.

I could say they were rising my life!!!

:-D :-D

Isn’t that what sisters are for ;-)

Names ( only girl)

So now all apologies have to go to both parties individually ( even if you are a couple)and you must atone for everything that has gone wrong in the world.

( OK, over the top but then so was that awful article)

Will there ever be a big enough apology for them? Granted Clarkson comments were awful, but as for everyone else even if they should apologize will it be enough?