at no time


she lives in onslow gardens her name is adeline each sunday she goes rollerblading down by the serpentine


monday nights at café rouge she has a gin and angostura sometimes a virginia slim as well she smokes it with bravura


tuesdays and wednesdays at the gym a sauna and a longs slow steaming thursdays she studies modern song tries glottal stops and screaming


on fridays she’s all chains and zips in earl’s court with the leathermen but saturday sees her back at work she wears a different uniform then


o adeline how cold your eye how black your heart your skin so fair i saw and recognised you when you clamped my car in nevern square


Io vr C Teyrb


Yet true to his Victorian principles, He is best remembered For the invention of a machine That would cane boys automatically.


Mcal Nwma ihe e n Famous People


To be related to WG, Even by marriage, Is something rather special. How I envy my friend Robin Gilbert, Whose wife’s great-great grandmother Was second cousin to WG’s mother.


But it was WG’s father-in-law I’m most interested in – A certain Mr Pocock, A teacher in Bristol. His passion was kites – Not the feathered variety. He designed kites, you understand, That would lift a carriage, minus horse, Across the Downs; And unbelievably, a ship Right above the Docks.


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