“Can we go on bowing and curtseying to people who are just like ourselves?
We begin to wish that the Zoo should be abolished; that the royal animals should be given the run of some wider pasturage – a royal Whipsnade.
Will the British Empire survive? Will Buckingham Palace look as solid in 2034 as it does now?
Words are dangerous things remember. A Republic might be brought into being by a poem”
- Virginia Woolf in Time and Tide,1st December 1934 (emphasis added)
The video presentation of Heathcote Williams' chillingly eye-opening poem Royal Babylon, and its preface by the above quotation, are from http://www.royalbabylon.com/Site/Royal_Babylon.html
I am feeling extremely virtuous having put phase 1 of The Return in place by going to a 1-hour Zumba class.
I managed to keep up with the class for the entire hour!
The teacher commented that she saw me smiling so she knew I was having fun .... little did she know that as I wiped the sweat out of my eyes and my sight returned I was able to read the sign in multicoloured letters out the front of the hall.... it said
JESUS!
I couldn't have put it better myself.
This is one of the numbers we do and this is what I look like .... not (but watch this space!)
She has fought bravely back, through rain (leaking roof) and shine (skin cancer), dog attacks and domestic insanity, with all its attendant insomnia and penury, not to mention the compensatory consumption of kilos of The Shingle Inn's excellent White Christmas.
