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"You see things; and you say "Why?. But I dream things that never were; and I say "Why not?"

George Bernard Shaw


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Channel firing (1914)



Thomas Hardy


That night your great guns, unawares,

Shook all our coffins as we lay,

And broke the chancel window-squares,

We thought it was the Judgement-day

And sat upright. While drearisome

Arose the howl of wakened hounds:

The mouse let fall the altar-crumb,

The worms drew back into the mounds,

The glebe cow drooled. Till God called, ‘No;

It’s gunnery practice out at sea

Just as before you went below;

The world is as it used to be:

‘All nations striving strong to make

Red war yet redder. Mad as hatters

They do no more for Christés sake

Than you who are helpless in such matters.

‘That this is not the judgment-hour

For some of them’s a blessed thing,

For if it were they’d have to scour

Hell’s floor for so much threatening…

‘Ha, ha. It will be warmer when

I blow the trumpet (if indeed
I ever do; for you are men,
And rest eternal sorely need).’


So down we lay again. ‘I wonder,

Will the world ever saner be,’

Said one, ‘than when He sent us under

In our indifferent century!’

And many a skeleton shook his head.

‘Instead of preaching forty year,’

My neighbour Parson Thirdly said,

‘I wish I had stuck to pipes and beer.’

Again the guns disturbed the hour,

Roaring their readiness to avenge,

As far inland as Stourton Tower,

And Camelot, and starlit Stonehenge.













Edited by monarch - 11-November-2017 at 13:35
There is a crack in everything ...... that's how the light gets in
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For my Grove friends. 

"There are wood ships, there are good ships…there are ships that sail the sea. But the best ships are friendships….may they always be."
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HAR ! Pat --The origin of that joke

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Never knew that Pogue.....

I just saw the content of my post on a message to friend of mine who's a John Fogerty fan living in Donegal. 
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Never knew this thread even existed! Some magnificent stuff above - the piece by Hardy that Frank posted up some years ago is a very poignant marker for what's going on in Ukraine... 
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Read this line in a book I just finished.

"Don't open your mouth unless you can improve on the silence"
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An old saying of my mother's popped into my head yesterday.

May have posted this before but anyway.

"If I Don't See You Through The Week I'll See You Through The Window".


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Lol Pat, indeed or my friend Joe's version: "If I dont see you round I'll see you square"! 
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Love it Gerry ❤️
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"Laughter is the shortest distance between two people." -- Victor Borge


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There's a Japanese legend that says,
"If you feel like you're losing everything.
remember that trees lose their leaves every
year and they still stand tall and wait for better days to come."


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Nice one Pat, I like that! Smile
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"When a clown moves into a palace, he doesn't become a king. The palace becomes a circus." --Turkish proverb
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sounds like leinster house Pat.
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Indeed Sean and a lot of other global governments. 
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"I could eat a farmer's arse through a rope chair"

Gerry Daley - when his wife asked him if he's hungry
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