JOYS OF THE OPEN ROAD

 

I used to love to drive but not anymore

I used to look forward to it

Any excuse but not these days

Driving is so joyless

Road rage abounds

Aggressive gestures are commonplace

Hand signals not found in the Highway Code

Two fingered gesticulations

Or one fingered like the Americans do

Called flipping the bird I believe

Or the one that looks like they’re shaking coffee beans

Then there’s tail gating or undertaking

A complete lack of lane discipline

You get blinded by flashing lights

Or deafened by sounding horns

Or you’re subjected to a tirade of verbal abuse

Language to make a fish wife blush

And the men are just as bad

CREATURES OF GREEK MYTHOLOGY – THE NEMEAN LION

There was a dreadful union between the giant immortal Typhon

And the black fearful eyed Echidne, Half serpent, half woman

The terrifying result of this unnatural union was a huge Lion

No ordinary Lion but a supernatural monster called the Nemean

Its skin was impenetrable to the arrows or spear of Heracles

Who had been sent to kill it so he then adopted other strategies

Finally strangling it with his bare hands and then skinning it

Ever after wearing the hide as a cloak and its jaws as a helmet 

WHATS IN A NAME (9)

 

Does anyone know is Alan Green?

Does anyone know is Robbie Keane?

Does anyone think did Dan Dare?

Has anyone else seen Dani Behr?

ARE YOU WEARING SPACE PANTS?

 

Are you wearing space pants?

Well, your virtue may be imperilled

Because wearing those pants

Your arse is out of this world

MUSIC IN SPACE

 

Round the world they go

In nineteen sixty-five

Orbiting the earth

So high up in the sky

 

Dashing round the world

Above the earth they race

Jingle Bells the song, was

The first one played in space

 

O Jingle bells, jingle bells

Jingle all the way.

Oh! What fun it is to ride

In a spaceship far away hey

 

Sung to the tune of Jingle Bells

ALL-TIME CLASSIC MOVIE FAVOURITES – THE VIRGIN QUEEN (1955)

 

“The Virgin Queen” is a Historic drama directed by Henry Koster and written by Harry Brown and Mindret Lord.

Sir Walter Raleigh (Richard Todd) overcomes court intrigue to gain an audience with Queen Elizabeth I (Bette Davis) and through charm soon wins her favour, his motive is to get financing for a proposed voyage to the New World and make a name for England.

But it’s a stormy relationship between the aging Queen and Raleigh, so when he becomes attracted to a young ward of the court, Beth Throgmorton (Dame Joan Collins), and she strongly returns the attraction, he must tread carefully as Elizabeth soon shows her desire for him and he must bend in order to achieve his goal, even though he loves Beth, but it’s a dangerous game to play with the stubborn Queen’s affections, so will jealousy of Raleigh’s youthful love lead to his downfall.

AI DI

Would you call a blonde

Who for instance

Has died her hair brunette

Artificial intelligence