When the pen takes control.

Thomas Chippendale we often remember

as the most wonderful cabinet maker

by using mahogany, walnut or oak

he made furniture for the richest folk

often chosen for the homes of the upper crust

to see it, you should join the National Trust

A little known fact from history, the reason why Nelson claimed not to see, the signal from the hierarchy was because he didn’t have either a 20 or a 50 p.

Venus rises from the sea

her classic beauty, quite divine

captured by the painters eye

intriguing viewers over time

coquettish though her stately pose

suggests that though she may be shy

carefully placed pale arms and hands

and one arm resting carefully

leaves one milk white breast exposed

and flowing locks so modestly

preserving her virgin dignity

How sad, Cheddar Gorge is just a shell of its former self.

From high up in the hawthorn tree

a beautiful song drifted down to me

I couldn’t see the melodic bird

but instantly knew what I had heard

not a skylark or even nightingale tweet

but a songthrush with its song so sweet.

During the early to late Middle Ages the general population well, mainly the breadwinner, enjoyed only one holiday each year, invariably a pilgrimage spent visiting a religious shrine. At the numerous pilgrim way service stations or inns catering for the travellers, drinks were served on trays of either wood or metal which were often stolen as souvenirs of the journey, hence the term, gone astray, the  owners would thus feel betrayed and hired blonde, ample-breasted, tartan mini-skirted, stocking clad serving wenches in white blouses carrying nine tankards in each hand to serve tables.

Prospero, Alonso, Ariel and Gonzalo

Caliban, Adrian, even Francisco

if you are wandering from where came these names

then reading,”The Tempest,” should surely be your aim.