Don't pay for sub-editors, get garbage.
@deluxday.bsky.social
"A comma, a semicolon; my kingdom for appropriate punctuation ..."
30/3
Was just walking past
With this trifle and good cheer
Could see you need help
#17thOctober #haiku365 #haiku
@paddy-roberts.bsky.social
29.03
Sunday Club at The Thirsty Giraffe this week saw the inaugral 'Pudding Club', and boy-oh-boy did everyone deliver!!
We mixed, stirred and baked,
To make the first Pudding Club
Such a sweet success.
#17thOctober #haiku365
Bastard packaging ...
@deluxday.bsky.social
All this to do, and an hour less in which to do it. Start with the basics ...
29/3
Eternal struggle:
Open the crumpet packet
Without a sharp knife
#17thOctober #haiku365 #haiku
@paddy-roberts.bsky.social
28 03
The Cocktail Menu:
We feel cosmopolitan,
High class & stylish..
#17thOctober #haiku365
@paddy-roberts.bsky.social
27.03
Counterpoint to your calm..
Listening to the sounds of Ulster, 1979..
Stiff Little Fingers;
Punk throuh the Ulster filter,
Celtic Energy.
#17thOctober #haiku365
@deluxday.bsky.social
I think i diD someTHing like 150 hRs in the pAst 10 daysSSSZzZ...
But they cannae tek ma' W-E-E-EE-E-K-E-NNN-D!
27/3
Stopped finally; calm,
Quiet, peace reigns in my head:
The weeks' jangle passed.
#17thOctober #haiku365 #haiku
Purchased whilst staying with you in Hay-on-Wye Patrick, started then neglected for unknown reasons..
@paddy-roberts.bsky.social
26.03
Got the Director's call last night to offer me the part of Charrington in production of 1984. Time to finish this off as essential, supplementary reading..
The 'safe' room conceals,
Surveillance and betrayal —
Beware Charrington!
#17thOctober #haiku365
Revenge is a dish best served cold ... Image: collider.com
@deluxday.bsky.social
Sometimes, not knowing is better than knowing. Ignorance is bliss, Orwell didn't write.
26/3
I learnt the Welsh words
For 'microwave oven', and
They're not 'popty ping'.
But 'meicrodon' makes
Me think of little Brandos
Doing food favours.
#17thOctober #haiku365 #haiku
Not my strongest area but enjoyable nonetheless!
@paddy-roberts.bsky.social
25.03
Bitterly cold here today too..
Another Maths lesson, SOh CAh TOa!
On a slight Tangent,
Sometimes at an Opposite:
The Hypotenuse!
#17thOctober #haiku365 #trigonometry
Pen y Fan, this morning, complete with spring snow
@deluxday.bsky.social
An early one, today, after being struck by this morning's view on the way to work. Weird weather ...
25/3
A dump of Spring snow
(Not enough, sadly, to ski)
Down the mountain side
#17thOctober #haiku365 #haiku
The reflected light from the classroom in the photo looks like a window to another world!
@paddy-roberts.bsky.social
24.03
Haiku from the I.T classroom, the highest point of Stamford College..
My fifth floor vantage.
I peer at the lead-grey skies,
And hear the wind howl...
#17thOctober #haiku365
Image: usesignboard.com with my pen
@deluxday.bsky.social
Hectic, yet productive. Uncrossed a few wires; made a few connections.
24/3
NVQ workshop
Mic gave up ghost halfway through
That was a result
#17thOctober #haiku365 #haiku
Rather lovely to be served by your own son when buying some bird food tonight! 😎
@paddy-roberts.bsky.social
23.03
Hope you get a good nights sleep..
Dexter's first day of work experience at the Vine House Farm Shop & Cafè...and he loved it!
Welcome to our World,
Where work dictates and shapes the
Industry of life...
#17thOctober #haiku365
Rodin's The Thinker. I imagine the thought was " ... how much longer ... "
@deluxday.bsky.social
I'm really tired today, it all keeps coming from every direction.
23/3
Some days I will sit
And try to think and others
I find I just sit...
#17thOctober #haiku365 #haiku
@paddy-roberts.bsky.social
22.03
I caught the late Alistair Cooke being interviwed on Parky last night, which begged the question how his letters from America today would have sounded..
Dear Alistair Cooke,
I can only wonder what,
Your letter might say..
#17thOctober #haiku365
@deluxday.bsky.social
He was very good, and I can say that even as a parent...
Anyway, I'm on the week's second 50+hour shift, not quite sure how, but that's how it crumbles.
22/3
News comes from left-field;
Not sure how best to react:
Must give this some thought.
#17thOctober #haiku365 #haiku
So proud ...
@deluxday.bsky.social
The Sixth Thread
Bruce Willis will be playing us in the big screen version. Or, more likely, Bob Willis ...
21/3
At the village hall
To see my child on the stage
Mrs Worthington
#17thOctober #haiku365 #haiku
@paddy-roberts.bsky.social
20.03
Oh yes, completely missed our monthly thread regeneration, whoops!
First audition in a good while tonight, loved it!
Nineteen Eighty Four:
Orwell's dystopian landscape,
Feels so prescient...
#17thOctober #haiku365
@deluxday.bsky.social
Oh! Look at the date! I would have started a new thread, but then this haiku wouldn't have made sense ...
Happy Verbal Equinox!
20/3
Miss Understanding:
Ah. The lawn's not mine
But the jungle needs taming
And I've got the time
#17thOctober #haiku365 #haiku
@paddy-roberts.bsky.social
I didn't realise you had a lawn at The Chapel!
Made by my fair hand, a lentil lasagna - adapting what seems to be a recipe that has roots in Greece and Rome:
Humble lasagna,
With roots in antiquity -
A supper staple.
#17thOctober #haiku365
Chained to the mower until autumn ...
@deluxday.bsky.social
Finally, the rain stays away long enough to break out the mower. Bad decision.
19/3
Bit of a head rush
Winter's unfitness rears up
When mowing the lawn
#17thOctober #haiku365 #haiku
@deluxday.bsky.social
In to my 13th month in the job, starting to use more and more of the information dumped on me in training. Starting to see the wood from the trees.
18/3
I wrote a poem
As a form of therapy
A pressure release
#17thOctober #haiku365 #haiku
This is ours, obviously..
@paddy-roberts.bsky.social
18.03
An indictment of how things have changed in modern education; I asked for one only to be told there wasn't one as the students used their phones instead:
The Digital Creep —
An English classroom without
A dictionary!
#17thOctober #haiku365
@paddy-roberts.bsky.social
17.03
Another new bin arrived today (the orange one!), for food waste. We have quite a 'collection' now, if you'll excuse the pun..
The compost caddy,
Tips us to over to five bins,
But I can't refuse..
(Apologies for all the awful puns!)
#17thOctober #haiku365
Noting Hill. Why not, Flopsy?
@deluxday.bsky.social
Need to wind down a bit, lots going on, perfect telly viewing.
17/3
It's love actually
I turn on the TV, there,
Somewhere north London
#17thOctober #haiku365 #haiku
Bastet, divine since time immemorial. Image: worldhistory.org
@deluxday.bsky.social
Hectic day, but time to think in tangents ...
16/3
Cats: Reporting back
To feline mothership since
Three thousand BC
#17thOctober #haiku365 #haiku
@paddy-roberts.bsky.social
16.03
Double-haiku today as time invigilating this morning allowed for furtive poetry..
i)
I sit adjacent
To the student. My thoughts are
Quietly contained.
ii)
Time passes. The clock-
Hands oblige, turning in time,
Never questioning.
#17thOctober #haiku365
Image: lovecheese.co.uk I didn't have the presence of mind to photograph the actual cheese last night ...
@deluxday.bsky.social
Dinner at a friend's house yesterday, suffering today ...
15/3
Nice cheese hangover:
Particularly runny
Camembert too far ...
#17thOctober #haiku365 #haiku
@paddy-roberts.bsky.social
15.03
Mothering Sunday brings another rugby fixture; today, we return to Ely, Cathedral City. Last time we were here it was snowing!!
St Etheldreda
Lies beneath the Octagon,
Seen here from afar.
#17thOctober #haiku365
Got some work ahead of me ...
@deluxday.bsky.social
Sun shines; air temp up
Thoughts turning toward new growth
Hibernating done
14/3
Warming in the sun
Planters ready for action
Seedlings strengthening
#17thOctober #haiku365 #haiku
