Simon Says

Beginnings Come, join us on a journey as we travel with old friends: despite the various twists and turns we know how this one ends. But, haste not to the ending; our tale's not yet begun. We'll start at a beginning and end when story done. Our tale is not quite history (nor is it make believe) There's some poetic licence yet truth you can perceive. So, for our  storytelling we travel back in time to a point in history when Rome was at her prime. It's not that ancient city on which we now converge but a town, remote and distant, on an eastern desert verge: Darkness: the blackest blackness! Fragmented sparks of light illuminating  dwellings into the deepest night. Aside the town, a rocky place and here we find, stargazing magi, watching the heavens, portents and signs appraising. A great excitement permeates the astrological air as seasoned watchmen of the night stand opened-mouth and stare. Their charts abandoned, gaze transfixed, euphoria increased. Before their eyes h

Veterans honoured Dead remembered Nation pauses People stop True remembrance learns its lessons Abhors conflict None forgot Peace in living not just speaking Among peoples barriers fall Resolution of world problems first begins within us all SCW November 2015

 

 

  'We're very lucky!" I tell the boys, "Not many can afford a LUXURY  Platinum Caravan! (Much cheaper than abroad) "It's very spacious!" I tell the boys as they squeeze into their "room": "A luxury PLATINUM  Caravan!" (I hope it stops raining soon) "It's not for us!" I tell the boys as we sit around, plain bored. "A luxury platinum CARAVAN! " (Next year we go abroad) 14/08/2019 Simon Wright

  "Luxuries! Luxuries! We must have responsibility!" cries the MP from the comfort of his salary and lunch subsidy. "Avoid nationalisation! Let's have rationalisation for the joy of privatisation is the freedom to choose. Heat or food? Clothes or light? It's about liberation in the ongoing fight to unshackle the people and allow them to decide! Emergency dinners is fiscal suicide. We need every penny to keep our bombs primed and ready to use if we are inclined. We must honour our contracts and look after our friends We must keep in their favour (Our retirement depends on the offer of seats on a top business board Earning more money as we head to the Lords). So, let us be honest - we're in this together And the decisions ahead are a question of whether we avoid the tough actions fiscal prudence demands. Free dinners are wasteful - you must understand. And now the debate and the vote has been won, we're off for a meal Subsidy anyone?" Luxuries! Luxurie