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Yes Max I like a good show anytime -but what was painful (for old bloke like me) was it's use by the Establishment there's always money for this propping up of the old order for a War or two-paying bankers bonuses National Monarchical holiday (they are even trying to get rid of May Day!!!!)-but in the background is the closing of schools libraries hospitals day centres bashing the poor disabled whatever etc etc - Even protest was forbidden!!!!!!! I did pass on this simpering and whimpering pottering around my Republican garden!!!!! But it's a lovely day today and another divorce no doubt to follow with rather less fanfare and kerfuffle :-) Ps I see anew Australian film is coming out 'Our Generation' which seems rather more up my street Bests P -----Original Message----- From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Max Richards Sent: 29 April 2011 21:24 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: pat snap*****************29th april 11 The royal wedding in pictures; Plus: Was Kate's dress a winner? That's the first email I found checking my inbox before bed. Moi, I'd dozed off watching 'live' the late evening telecast of the poshest pageantry in living memory. Simon Schama 'historian' was one commentator, sitting it seemed in a glass box to one side of Buck Palace. Soft spot for Schama I have. Hard put he was to shift us from the engulfing shallowness, and the vox pop interludes... Oh the choirboys were scrumptious, wouldn't have missed them, and not all pallid anglos lifting up their hearts in song - (Blake over by St Paul's. Parry's Blake's Jerusalem, now, wasn't that spine-tingling? Even if its radicalism is done over by the establishment. Hovering over Hyde Park at times we saw the hoi polloi whistling as their 'commoner' Kate became Princess Catherine, pizza bars and fun fair beckoning. Then the cam showed us inside an old Lancaster cockpit! And a Spitfire flew beside it above the millions and the royals. Patrick, Doug, you surely would have thrilled to that. But the horses were what mostly I wanted to see, bestrode by antique uniforms. Quoting Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>: > I guess you have to be there > > (me: I was at a poetry reading last night& went to bed...) > > Doug > On 2011-04-29, at 2:47 AM, David Bircumshaw wrote: > > > For me, Patrick, it's doubly worse: he's an Aston Villa supporter (growl) > > > > (grew up next door to St Andrews and the Stan Cullis Blues me) > > > > :) > > > > > > > > On 29 April 2011 09:25, Patrick McManus > <[log in to unmask]>wrote: > > > >> BBC NEWS HEADLINES > >> (found poem 29 -4-11) > >> > >> The royal wedding > >> Guests arrive at Westminster Abbey > >> Prince William meets well-wishers > >> The route from Westminster Abbey > >> Preparations for the royal wedding > >> Cheers for Kate at Abbey rehearsal > >> Middletons arrive at London hotel > >> 'Sick to death of royal wedding!' > >> 'Royals are benefit scroungers' > >> > >> pmcmanus > >> q822 > >> > >> all the whimpering > >> all the simpering > >> it must be a > >> royal wedding > >> > > > > > > > > -- > > David Joseph Bircumshaw > > Website and A Chide's Alphabet > > http://www.staplednapkin.org.uk > > The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html > > Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/david.bircumshaw > > twitter: http://twitter.com/bucketshave > > blog: http://groggydays.blogspot.com/ > > > > Douglas Barbour > [log in to unmask] > > http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/ > http://eclecticruckus.wordpress.com/ > > Latest books: > Continuations (with Sheila E Murphy) > http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=664 > Wednesdays' > http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2008/03/new-from-aboveground- press_10.html > > Just a late night pilgrim > Looking for redemption in the underground. > Lord, won't you help a late night pilgrim > When the morning comes around. > > Tift Merritt > ------------------------------------------------------------ This email was sent from Netspace Webmail: http://www.netspace.net.au