“What’s a Hanny?” asked Daisy as she checked out this blog. “Actually Fairyhanny is a Spoonerism,” I explained. “Like a toast to the Queer Dean instead of the Dear Queen.” “I don’t get it?” So I tried again. “Would you like to show me your toolkits?” “Are you a smart fella?” I even got herContinue reading “What is a Hanny?”
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Playing Poetry Games
Today I played a game with a girl in China. We wrote four words and then made poems. They are generally awful…. but included here for your entertainment. Poems today I like the colour of rose my friend says she also does so when we meet a rose colour dog we bring him back toContinue reading “Playing Poetry Games”
Who wants to be a writer – it’s tough!!!
10 Authors who dealt with Rejection. You and I love to write. It’s a special gift and a privilege we have creating story’s, sometimes just for ourselves, for our families and friends. But we all reach the point when we believe in what we write and we want to see it published – and we’dContinue reading “Who wants to be a writer – it’s tough!!!”
Physicist proves watched kettles do boil!
They say a watched kettle never boils, but Irish Physicist Eamon Glasscock has set out to disprove this theory and made some other remarkable discoveries on the way. Glasscock, 26, a post-doctoral Research Fellow at the University of Wollongong in Dubai, has spent a lifetime fascinated by things that get hot. “As a child IContinue reading “Physicist proves watched kettles do boil!”
Afghans delighted to be counting their goats after the decline of the Taliban.
The people of Afghanistan have been celebrating in the streets as they regain a more liberal freedom. Counting is back on the menu after more than twenty years of the Taliban tally ban. “I deeply love my goats but until this week I didn’t know how many I had,” explained Mahmud Ghazi, 48, a goatherdContinue reading “Afghans delighted to be counting their goats after the decline of the Taliban.”
Radio Suffolk Interview
This is the link. It will be available until 22nd August 2013 http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01d0cm9
Bedlam Boys – the story behind ‘Trans Uranic Elements; The Dark Side of Uranus’
Bedlam Boys For to see my Tom of Bedlam, 10,000 miles I’d travel Mad Maudlin goes on dirty toes, to save her shoes from gravel. Still I sing bonnie boys, bonnie mad boys, Bedlam boys are bonnie For they all go bare and they live by the air, And they want no drink nor money.Continue reading “Bedlam Boys – the story behind ‘Trans Uranic Elements; The Dark Side of Uranus’”
Fairy Hanny 