A Blog of Bosh

Records to tumble at Tatton [flower] show
A show newcomer among 18 garden designers is Sarah Lynch, who has created the Owl and the Pussycat garden.Sarah, 36, who lives in Cheshire, is taking part in a flower show for the first time and her entry promises to be one of the most theatrical designs this year.Her [...]

The Real Limerick
Again, a newgroup message discussing my “dry treatise” on the limerick in some detail. Intersting for the limericks by Swinburne it quotes.

“Edward Lear’s Tribute to the Moon”
A humourous exchange providing a deep interpretation of Lear’s limerick on the Old Man of the Hague.Google Groups

Now obsolete

‘Winged Migration’ simply soarsThe movie’s [Winged Migration by Jacques Perrin] poetry, not its mechanics, will galvanize most viewers and cause them to look at birds less complacently, maybe for the rest of their lives. It’s a robust, multifaceted, gloriously accessible poetry, in turn exciting, contemplative and giddy. Moments of this movie made me as unreasonably [...]