It's warm enough here on the west coast, Bill! I do love the line Doug
quoted very much.
Andrew
On Thu, 20 Feb 2020 at 17:06, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Thanks, Patrick and Doug. I have been outside in the environment at Lorne
> today where it rained on the beach which is OK by me in February, usually a
> stinkpot weatherwise, as in stinking hot.
>
> Bill
>
> On Thu, 20 Feb 2020 at 3:43 am, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
> > A nice bit of light verse comedy remembering Bill, with a bit of a charge
> > in that line, 'Before environment, there was outside.’
> >
> > Doug
> >
> > > On Feb 18, 2020, at 2:31 PM, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > i
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Why don’t you go and play outside
> > >
> > > less a question than a Mum instruction
> > >
> > > to Jungle Jim-on-TV-watching me
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Before environment, there was outside
> > >
> > > Land of apricot trees, grass, concrete, sky
> > >
> > > Monochromed eyes adjust blinkingly to colour
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Pick up a footy from under the clothesline
> > >
> > > Bounce it a few times. What would Bomba do?
> > >
> > > Where are the swinging vines?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > ii
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Tarzan lived outside, even slept in trees
> > >
> > > I felt more outside watching him and safari-suited men
> > >
> > > with pith helmets than in the backyard
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Ah-woo, ah wooh woo wooh
> > >
> > > mysterious deep African jungle sound
> > >
> > > I was later told was a kookaburra
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > But ex-Olympian Johnny Weissmuller
> > >
> > > did all his own swimming stunts
> > >
> > > and patented his yell for all Tarzans to come
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > iii
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Backyard cluttered with excess from inside
> > >
> > > What’s this cracked tabletop doing out here?
> > >
> > > Best deal with it with this old hammer
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Now what? Bit junglier down the side
> > >
> > > Ah, fuchsias. Tear off a branchlet
> > >
> > > Fold it near the flower, aim and shoot!
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > In between the tool shed and the garage
> > >
> > > squelch through solid Wandering Jew
> > >
> > > to the fence - end of my outside
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > iv
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > How did that marble top get smashed?
> > >
> > > Dad demanded, after work
> > >
> > > Just going outside to play, Mum
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > bw
> > >
> > >
> >
> > Douglas Barbour
> > [log in to unmask]
> > https://eclecticruckus.wordpress.com/
> >
> > Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations & Continuations
> > 2 (UofAPress).
> > Recording Dates (Rubicon Press).
> > Listen. If (UofAPress):
> >
> >
> > Done in by creation itself.
> >
> > I mean the gods. Not us. Well us too.
> > The gods moved into books. Who wrote the books?
> > We wrote the books. In whose dream, then are we dreaming?
> >
> > Robert Kroetsch
> >
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