New Year's Day, Jan 1^st 2024

Well, hello to a brand new year:

2024

let's adore

yet more days

& wonderful ways

wake up

see what we'll make of it

 

on umpteenth day of the umpteenth year
lost count
no big deal
addiction to fiction

 

Opening a new Diary

Nearly said Dairy but I'm vegan

Here we are! How lucky.

Happy not to have hangover! So sunny...  gloriously sunny. Then, progressively more cloudy. Changing always.

Nonsense couplet cos I like the word, moxie.

being foxy
with more moxie

& again:

bonanza
another stanza
 

Jan 2^nd 2024

no winoweh
not a lion
except symbolically
as I am also
like a tiger
burning bright
yes bloody
tryin'

no ninja
tho I like
Japanese culture

(Drawing of the archetypical ninja

from a series of sketches of Hokusai.)

rains
pointless to complain
it will wane before I go insane
so hardly germane

but cut the crap
keep your trap shut

let there be

some jazzy 

 snazzy shenanigans

Jan 3^rd  more nonsense encore, just like the words:

we had a spat
& that is that
peeved
more than you'd have believed

when a kid
used to go to jumble sales
whereas now I rummage for things

Britain or  America

keep track
if people sass back
take it as an attack

Jan 4^th -  Eleventh day Of Xmas: 11 pipers piping!

New page, assiduity

if I'm poetic
it's just noetic

Jan 5^th -  Sky overcast grey maybe rain again later. Lowering sky. In the gloom before the gloaming. Nontheless lucid.

Brightening up now. Kind-hearted thoughts towards all.

Many lacunae in this. Avoiding effrontery about weather. Culminating in calumniation?

Meanwhile on a cosmic scale, astronomically, it has been speculated by renowned astrophysicist, Brian Cox, that stellar behemoth Betelgeuse, a Red Giant. in Orion will become a Supernova? Only a guess The video I'm watching is narrated by annoying A.I. that wrongly pronounces words.

Thought:

Doofus the stupid

reindeer was late

Jan 6^th - created nonsense

May bake a cake as they do en France.

Christmas Decorations to come down too.

Made William Blake page.

Jan 7^th - 

am a scrivener
in various senses of the word
it can be magic
tragic & all

(As well as writing, I can also tell the future by shapes revealed

in smoke, water or crystal ball)

vent it
ventilate
do what you will

Jan 8^th - Realized that Dollar & Dolour are homophones. Interesting!

dollars make me feel dolour
may be a scholar
but live in comparative squalor
a little off colour
as it were

           Created /scouts.

feeling so low
in a solo
tip to toe
will I grow

 he's a veritable halfwit
truly a twit
a bit into lit
like a nitwit
by another name
same difference
if you know what I mean
keen

Jan 9^th -  Created Mrs Blake

Re-watched the film 'Psycho':

don't worry
won't be staying
at the Bates motel
in a hurry

Created: Funambulist

Jan 10^th - 

ate then
eructated
belched
burped
 absurd words

Jan 11^th - Another, Samuel Beckett.

Jan 13^th - 

                                                             Balance...

Ada
Adores
Ardor

BLUE sky, cold...

New page, Awen.

Jan 15^th - Ditto: BLUE sky, cold...

Jan 16^th - Sunny but cold. Getting old. Aren't we all? How appalling.

New page, cluck

Jan 17^th -

not one for swank
or swagger
 tend to stagger

 bit of Rorschach blot
rascal
naughty not haughty

Warm, sitting in sunshine behind window pane. Brain melting.

ho hum
some dumb glum scum
succumb to numbness
in a nearby slum's 'lum'
fo fum

Jan 18^th -

so it's really not too late
to make affirmations
feel great elation
have all sorts of sensations
or make oblations to god

white doves
grey doves
same old young loves

Tried tricycle! I like the trike!

Jan 19^th - 

ITY HISTORY...
in Medici massacres
much bloodshed
many bled
***
**
*

Odalisque, new page.

Jan 20^th -  Red sky in morning, a warning to us.

Jan 21^st - 

don't be a twat
say where you're at
prat

Apophatic, Sacerdotal, Cataphatic? Am a bit discombobulated! Aren't you?

Went for jaunt on powered mobility scooter in icy wind. Collecting toilet rolls. Refreshing.

Jan 22^nd - Madness! My charming wife has thrown a shelf of books across the living room. Son has kicked me in the balls & sworn at me. I stay calm.

stay calm
amid the harm
thrown books
look
angry words
swears
as if they don't care
beware

Jan 23^rd - Could we chop weblog with axiom?

Cold wet.

New page, /franciscan

Just remembered:

Dad taught Lolly our budgie to say 'bugger the cat' cos it once took him in his mouth. I named the budgerigar, when I said 'I want,

want a lolly'

Jan 25^th - Another day.

Jan 26^th - Wind stopped eventually. Sunny. Warm behind window panes indoors.

Working online. New page, /Munch.

Jan 28^th - Technical probs. Grr.

New page, on Samuel Palmer.

Jan 29 ^th -

Gioconda

smile

Gautama

expression

777 pages in my website.

Jan 30 ^th - new page, Hopper.

Jan 31^st - new page, Ernst.

Feb 1^st - Imbolc, cross-quarter day.

Feb 2^nd - hope am having Cataract seen to today. Must pray to Saint Lucy. Old age, sickness. heading for death.

Made it passed 69 anyway.

Feb 3^rd -

Buddy Holly
not so jolly
died in plane crash
at 22 years old
that's not long
wrote & played
some wonderful songs
changed the face of rock & roll
still sounds good today
hurray

Feb 4^th - Need to be a patient patient!

Feb 5^th - Blue sky, few clouds, cold. Must see Doctor. Ho hum. Waited over 5 hours to be seen in hospital. Frustrated. Gave up & left.

Feb 6^th - Anniversary of father's birth in 1915. More uncertainty about my health

Feb 7^th - Hospital. Stayed overnight. Medication to keep high Blood Pressure under control.

Feb 8^th -  Heavy snow. Brrr!

Feb 9^th - New moon.

Feb 10^th - Year of Wood Dragon

Feb 13^th - Hospital Eye Centre.

Feb 14^th -  Valentine's Day.

New page, Charley.

Feb 15^th -  Encouraging if someone would TIP Yours Truly^TM, say, the cost of a coffee/tea...This vast website is offered FREE!

Feb 16^th -  New page, foggiest.

Feb 17^th - Finally, new page on sister.

Feb 18^th - Twinges of pain. Mustn't whinge about it.

Feb 19^th -  Einstein, new page.

Feb 20^th - my son, Osker's Birthday. He is now a teenager. We went to Odeon Lux cinema & watched "Migration''. Had meal.

Feb 21^st - Thought:

Amity

better than

 Enmity

 don't you agree

Feb 22^nd - Kay & I are going to see 'Bob Marley: One Love' film this evening...

Saw him perform many years ago. He did Redemption Song before it was officially released.

Praise JAH!

Wonderful film!

Feb 23^rd - Sunny day. Warm behind windowpane in my room.

Feb 24^th - Preparing to extradite Assange to USA. Wrote this long ago.

Full Moon today.

once when I was a a boy
had a stamp collection
suitable for inspection
I was proud of it
enjoyed
including a victorian stamp
gone now lost
o well
so it goes
impermanent
 

Feb 25^th - sunny & cold out. Warm indoors.
Feb 26^th - Kay, my kind consort, & I going to cinema today. Excited.

Enjoyed. Excellent films.

Feb 28^th - Dentist & Cinema to see Hamlet. Action-packed & lack of action day.

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The film was wonderful, acting& editing. We, Kay & I, watched it yesterday evening.

New page, /hockney

Feb 29^th - Leap Day, 2024 being a Leap Year. I intend to leap a little. It's good exercise!

March 1^st - Saint David's day. Hey hey. Daffodils.

March 2^nd - Finally got hold of a copy of Hamlet by its real author. De Vere.

Delighted De Vere is finally being recognised as the real author of the works of Shake-spear.

March 4^th, (Monday)

Don't forget: Gaza:

"eyeless in Gaza"

we don't want to see

assassinations

inhumanity

humiliations

daily misery

George Galloway recently won a victory in Rochdale, reminding voters of Israeli war crimes against the Palestinians.

so
nakba
intifada
in Gaza
insallah

Israelis lied

about occupied

Palestine

it's a war crime

won't we learn

from the March of Return

people are clearly

under seige

Zionism is wrong!

where you at
twat
why do that
doormat
not cool
cat

dot com

where you from

tom tom

March 5^th, (Tuesday)

in news

Israelis murder

Palestinians
starving

desperate for food

so-called flour massacre

nothing to do with flowers

Remember Tolkein

St.Patrick's Day today! Once had a 4-leaved clover. Gave it to someone who I thought needed good luck.

March 20^th

New page, /tara

take a puff
of that stuff
have a laugh
if you can
show you're a man
that's how I became an addict

March 21^st -

was in a noisy fracas
quite drastic alas
long ago in the past

March 22^nd -

buck up
good luck
if you're stage-struck
 

March 23^rd -

Watched animations etc by Suzanne Pitt. Wasn't aware of her work before.  Colourful. Fun.
Feeling surprisingly relaxed.

Bloody Genocide in Gaza continues...

Kate Middleton also has cancer! Like King Charles 3!

Famine in Sudan.

What  a jolly world!

Feeling surprisingly relaxed.

March 24^th - Sunday - day of rest? We shall see.

Nah! Seems like any other day.

Watched Nocturnal (Gianfranco Rosi, 2020) 'Shot over the course of three years between Syria, Iraq, Kurdistan, and Lebanon, Notturno follows different people from areas near war zones in the Middle East who are trying to start over again with their everyday lives...' (Wikipedia)

Warfare again. What an ecological cost!

Britain ADMITS Israel Is deliberately staving Palestinians in Gaza!

March 25^th (Mon) - monday dynamo anagram!

Rockstar philosopher and revolutionary Slavoj Žižek was 75 on 25 March.

Holi Festival.

Saw  film of Songs for Drella (John Cale & Lou Reed of Velvet Underground) about Andy Warhol.

Listened to the Mike Oldfield's famous Tubular Bells. Remember when it came out,1973.

(Iconic artwork)

March 26^th -

UK Court to deliver decision Assange's Extradition

March 27^th - New page, /elated

Recently remembered dad used to call me Dai Bach, Little Davy.

March 28^th - Maundy  Thursday.  Won't cheat. Will wash my feet.

March 29^th - Had some homemade Hot Cross Buns. Delicious!

March 30^th - Film wonderful yesterday. Sunny today. Warm like a plant in a greenhouse. Out of icy outside temperature

March 31^st - HOP HAPPY EASTER! Easter?  Lamb? Have been critically crucified but will rise again. Dust to dust. Ashes to Ashes.

'in the sure & certain hope

of the resurrection

into eternal life.''

(from Book of Common Prayer)

British Summer Time. Clocks went Forward.

Vegan, Sugar-free eggs for us.

April 1^{st  -} We are all April Fools!

April 3^{rd  -} Waiting for Spring.

April 4^{th  -} Watched The Pillow Book, a 1996 erotic drama film, directed by Peter Greenaway, Music by Brian Eno.

I type onto www, rather than use ink on human flesh.

April 5^th - Been listening to Steven Wilson, Insurgentes, The Harmony Codex etc

April 6^th -

forages

for ages

 heir's hair

waving in  air

Wordplay takes my mind off Zionist Genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.

April 7^th - New page, /species

April 8^th - New Moon today!

April 9^th - In  Gaza, Israeli genocide against Palestinians continues.

April 11^th - Wife & son away in York till this evening.

Watching Mubi movie, Journey to Italy by Rossellini 1954, considered a masterpiece:

My life is dolce far niente in a way.

Listened to a recording of Basil Bunting perform Walt Whitman's 'Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking'...

April 12^th - Re-watching Wim Wenders' latest film Perfect Days. Good music soundtrack. Inspired by Ozu? Saw it a while back, in cinema.

"A co-production between Japan and Germany, the film stars Kōji Yakusho in the role of a cleaner of public toilets in Tokyo."  ''The 4:3 aspect ratio of the film are all nods to Ozu''

Wikipedia)

April 13^th -

THRENODY

FOR  PALESTINIANS

grief
without relief

genocide
no pride
one side
lied
tries to get away with it

painting
ballet
words on page

same  difference

tho we age

April 14^th - Live-streaming Genocide  continues...

April 15^th - Windy... cold. Sunny outside. April showers

April 16^th - Watched Of Human Bondage (1934). Made Bette Davis a star.

April 17^th - Sat in sunshine of front garden this morning & admired Cherry Blossom.

April 18^th - Watched Man With a Movie  Camera, a wonderful 1929 experimental  Soviet Documentary film by Dziga Vertov:

April 19^th - Sat in morning sunshine of front garden for a while. Refreshing.

April 20^th - Sat out again: Sunny but felt quite cold. Watching movies on mubi...

April 21^st - Israeli genocide against Palestinians in Gaza continues.Yesterday's Iran attack on Zionist Israel was dangerous

April 22^nd - Watched Deception (Tromperie), 2021 film, based on Philip Roth novel

Weather wet & not warm yet. Kay  'n' son out till about 5pm.

April 23^rd -  St. George's Day. Shakespeare's Birthday but the man from Stratford didn't write the plays & poems, it was Ed. De Vere.
New page, Sherlock.

April 24^th - Israeli genocide against Palestinians in Gaza continues. Assange still facing extradition

Went to Dentist. Photo of me waiting.

April 25^th - 116^th Day of the Year. Going to cinema with my wife & Osker

Here's a little nonsense verse:

hark hush
Sherlock shark
to make a mark
goes for the kill
as he always will
mush mush
you lush
don't rush to blush

We saw Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire. Osker laughed in right places. Mildly entertaining.

April 26^th - Watching documentary re John Guilliano. Interesting. Man with a passion for fashion. Haut couture galore. One time alcoholic. Took cocaine. Lots of pills.

April 27^th - Bit lacklustre this morning. Kay & OAK gone to Blackpool for the day. Hope weather holds.

Listening to Van Morrison online. Videos of live performances.

April 28^th - New page, flap.

at my wit's end
I can't defend
any piquant page
full of rage

April 29^th -

Remembered how I first learnt about Buddhism from Christmas Humphreys. Christmas is a good name. Funny that he became associated with Buddhism!

Did new page, statue.

And christie

 

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