Cake Cake Cake

Royal Mail 'Comics' stamps - Presentation Pack

These stamps cost £6.50 and there is more info here 

 

This is the miniature 'Dandy' reproduction that comes with the stamps (12 pages from the very first copy of 'Dandy'!)

 

The stories are adorable -

a tad blurry as these photos were taken through a closed window

a mouthful of mealy worms!

This little chap and (removable) baby roo is only about 6 cm high

'Harold & Maude'

One of the most interesting films I have ever had the privilege to watch.

(Amazon sell it for about £3 and it is worth so much more just to enjoy the experience of watching it).

I can't say more than that I love this film.

Write in 'Real Galaxies'!

This is so cool - found it via Bizibilder's blog - here is Georgy Buttons written in Real Galaxies!!!

You can write anything you want - the site is My Galaxies! Really fun.

 

 

Dad's Army T-Shirt from Asda - bargain at £7! (Men's Department)

Apricot Tree - Bill Costley

There’s a single apricot tree standing

at the end of my apartment building;

I watch it as it goes from fruitless,

to green to orange, then drops its

ripe fruit onto the bushes below;

I pick them up & happily

eat them out of hand.

now they have had their babies the alpaca have been shorn!

 

lawn leftovers

NO DRAFT, NO WAR, Just Peace - Bill Costley

 

One of my uncles, a submariner,

another, a bomber waist-gunner,

another, an OSS assassin in Poland,

another, a mountain ski-trooper

killed in the Italian alps; his widow,

a WAVE, married to an Army cook,

none of them ever marked me for war

except my father, rejected by the army:
for wearing glasses, for being married,
for having a child (me), incredulous that
I wouldn’t accept the Vietnam War draft:

“You’re a citizen! You have to!” He'd never 
learn I beat the army draft by checking-off
“covert homosexual" (hidden in its long list of
debilities) during my pre-induction physical. 

How can we deflate war's delusions?

No draft. No war. Just Peace.

(USA Memorial Day 2012, Santa Clara CA)v9
appeared on The New Verse News http://www.newversenews.blogspot.com
for Wed. 30 MAY 12