3575 - Vote with your feet (second thoughts, use your hands)

A warm sunny morning, cool afternoon
Changeable, and very stormy down south
Long day at work - one left and then I'm gone
To Iceland! Be still, my excited mouth!
Got home, made bed, ironed, played guitar, truth
Is I'm getting good, faster and faster
I don't want to appear very uncouth
So enough about that. The media
Is full of the referendum once more
Referenda are fun. It went well doon
In Bonnie Scotland last year, with a growth
In popular politics way up there
Now the whole UK's voting in one soon
In or out's the choice in the voting booth

3574 - Hear ye, hear ye!

Not done much, but cleaned my bedroom (part two)
The Matterhorn of dust under the bed
Has been growing ages, and not a few
The thought of it was doing in my head
But now the grey pile's been outside tipp-ed
While Lou made a phone call, I wandered round
The shops, spending on Shakespeare, as film-ed
In The Hollow Crown (first series), the crown
Being Dick 2, Harry 4 and 5, sound
Dramatizations of the Bard, look you
(As the Welsh soldier, Fluellen, had said)
Also a Spirit 4 CD set - drowned
In the obscure 60s Yank band, but you
Know I want to hear them afore I'm dead!

3573 - Here Comes The Sun (No, The Guardian)

Sunday at home, rose at quarter to nine
Watched TV while reading the Guardian
Good articles about Civil War Spain
Eighty years ago now since it began
And also about where I'm going - Iceland
Then I cleaned my bedroom, well, half of it
Now there's less dust and more space, but a mound
Of dust still under my bed I must shift
To shift that I must give the bed a lift
I'll do that tomorrow, I have the time
This long weekend where the sun's so far shone
I also did some shopping - a new coat
For outdoors use, and sleeping bag. A fine
Guitar practice, and reading Wooster's done

3572 - Bigmouth tries to strike again

A pleasant day, and good to see how Jo
Is getting better, tonsilectomy
Gradually healing, talk a little slow
At times, but spirits reviving nicely
She rang me when I was back home to see
What had happened to me in Turkey back
In '09, bullied into a big spree
On unwanted carpets that hurt my bank
Account badly. While I type, in the back-
ground is the Champions League final. It's two
Spanish teams again, Atletico v
Real Madrid, the whites mounting attacks
An eleventh trophy win likely, though
Who knows? The second half is yet to be

3571 - Ice cream for Jo

A fun day at work, though I felt quite tired
Fire marshals' meeting, and some other things
Some jokey chat, chicken soup I devoured
And flurries of late Friday emailing
I messaged Jo, asked how she was doing
Not too bad, eating ice cream, which helps to
Cool down and reduce the pain and swelling
Of her ex-tonsils, of which she had two
Til yesterday! I'll see her tomorrow
Briefly at home. She deserves a reward
Wonder what to get her? Maybe mooching
Round the Manchester shops before I go
To the station, then I can jump on board
With a treat for her to leave her smiling!

3570 - Two much two soon

A close shave. Went for a drink with colleagues
After work - an Italian visitor
Was the excuse, and as I drank the dregs
Of the second pint, I then made plans for
Buying some bottles of beer and get more
Drunk at home, don't ease off, step on the gas
Maybe buy cigs and smoke them all, no law
Against it, Louis' in London, I guess
There's no harm in it, just this once, the mess
It'll make of my lungs if I smoke cigs -
Lungs that are now clean - will soon disappear
As long as it's just this once ... but success!
I resisted, I saw sense. Two pints makes
You waver, but eat, don't drink three or four

3569 - Atlantic records

A busy but fun day, got up to date
With everything, got holiday money
All set to go to Iceland, got to wait
Less than a week now, then it's a journey
Further north than ever before, up the
Atlantic towards the Arctic Circle
After work, played guitar quite handsomely
Rocking along to Sabbath and Purple
For the first time (and it's not difficult!!)
Yesterday at comedy, sort of played
The ukulele - it's not that easy
Tomorrow I'll learn how to play, tackle
It properly, learn chord shapes, cos I( just hate
Carrying heavy guitars publicly