I ONCE KNEW A GIRL CALLED JO # 3

 

I once knew a girl called Jo

I knew as Jo with the flat chest

Who had nothing inside her vest

But I was still blessed

For she had other attributes

A THOUSAND MILE JOURNEY # 2

 

A journey of a thousand miles

Begins with a single step apparently

Well, that’s the philosophical view

It begins with a flat tire in reality

THE BERMUDA TRIANGLE GOT BORED

The Bermuda Triangle got bored

Of warm weather over the years

So, it relocated to Lapland and now

Santa Claus has disappeared 

IF YOU NEED HELP WHEN MOVING HOUSE

 

If you need help when moving house

You can always call on your buddies

It’s to be expected from everyday friends

But great friends help you move bodies

AN AGE OLD ADAGE THAT I KNOW

 

An age old adage that I know

States that friends may come and go

But more worrying to calculate

Is that enemies tend to accumulate

THE MARIJUANA DILEMMA

 

If the long held supposition or dilemma,

That the side effect of smoking marijuana

Can cause short-term memory loss, is true

Then what does smoking marijuana do?

ALL-TIME CLASSIC MOVIE FAVOURITES – NOW, VOYAGER (1942)

 

“Now, Voyager” is a romantic drama, based on the novel by Olive Higgins Prouty and directed by Irving Rapper.

Charlotte Vale (Bette Davis) is a spinster from a wealthy Boston family and following her father’s death she had her life controlled entirely by her domineering mother (Gladys Cooper), as a result her mental health suffered to the point that her sister, Lisa (Ilka Chase), arranges for Dr Jaquith (Claude Rains) to pay a house call on Charlotte.

Feeling despondent, she is convinced that she should spend some time in a sanatorium away from the influence of her mother and very soon Charlotte is transformed into a sophisticated confident woman, and such was the change in her that Lisa and Dr Jaquith arrange for her to go on a cruise to South America.

While on board she meets and begins a torrid affair with Jerry Durrance (Paul Henreid), a married architect.

Six months later, when she returns home to Boston, she forcefully confronts her mother with the terms of her independence, and an uneasy peace prevails between them until the day, after a brief argument, her mother has a heart attack and dies.

Charlotte inherits the vast Vale fortune but feels responsible for her mother's death so she returns to the sanatorium where she befriends a depressed, young adolescent, named Tina (Janis Wilson), a girl rejected by her disturbed mother, but she soon discovers that Tina is the daughter of her former lover Jerry, and the pair soon bond, and in time Charlotte takes Tina home to with her to Boston, but is she destined to become too attached?