'gland part 3

I need a back transplant. But they are pretty hard to come by. I probably have a pill dependency now. The pain without them is all-embracing, debilitating, frustrating and impinges upon one's mood remorselessly. The pills are pretty good though.

Sunnyhurst wood

Can't remember how to spell it. What's a hurst/hearst anyway?

Stunningly beautiful. Some of the things we take for granted every day, that's what they are. Stunningly beautiful. The light filtering through the canopy of trees, the ecstatic proliferation of green, the Italianate bridges. Those parks are delicious.

With Carlo in Boldventure park

Owlish

It's amazing what we take for granted sometimes. Living in a foreign country makes you reassess what you believe to have been assimilated and subsequently forgotten. If it weren't for the parks Darwen would be a place to drive through as quickly as possible on the way to somewhere else.

Looking miserable after last orders

Generational leap

There is birth and death. And a bit in the middle. The bit in the middle might be long or short, different shades of grey. It might contain a greater or a lesser quantity of beer.

To the world

View from Darwen Tower

Meeting of two mines

Stairstruck

Deep Thought

Today´s poem:

I saw a little elephant standing in my garden,
I said 'You don't belong in here', he said 'I beg you pardon?',
I said 'This place is England, what are you doing here?',
He said 'Ah, then I must be lost' and then 'Oh dear, oh dear'.

'I should be back in Africa, on Saranghetti's Plain',
'Pray, where is the nearest station where I can catch a train?'.
He caught the bus to Finchley and then to Mincing lane,
And over the Embankment, where he got lost, again.

The police they put him in a cell, but it was far too small,
So they tied him to a lampost and he slept against the wall.
But as the policemen lay sleeping by the twinkling light of dawn,
The lampost and the wall were there, but the elephant was gone!

So if you see an elephant, in a Jumbo Jet,
You can be sure that Africa's the place he's trying to get!