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What happens in the shadows where no one thinks to go
You know the great thing about tidying my office is the stuff I find. I found a poetry book called I Don’t Want An Avocado for an Uncle. I found some more shower gel, that I didn’t need as much space as I thought and some stuff written way back when we lived in London. I think it was Harris, or maybe Garton. I’m not sure:
There’s nothing there.
In the space between the way we are
and the way we want to be.
Where dreams of tomorrow are crumbling into dust
and we don’t know what happens in the shadows
where no one thinks to go.
There’s nothing there.
In the grey light that shines on a glimpse
of the dream we used to have.
A dream so far from the place we find us in
with the hope of tomorrow fading into the cold
light of today.
And yet you…
You dream of greatness which you don’t
see you have achieved.
The way we want to be reflected in the way you are.
And when we see all that you have been we know:
this is the way.
That’s a good poem, I liked it. I’m intrigued as to the nature of the poems in ‘I don’t want an avocado for an Uncle’ as well though!
Neighbours fans, did you watch Libby’s return last night? Did it seem to anyone else like they just shoved her in the scene without and lines and told her to improvise? Her conversations seemed very random and unscripted. She also had a moment when she was leaving Toadie’s office where her accent descended into Kath and Kim style Australian, really broad just for one sentence!
Don’t ruin Neighbours for me! I dont have a tv in grimsby, so I have to watch the omlibus on a weekend when I go back to Hull! If you must makes comments on it, please only do so a week after the thing you are commenting on happened.
I didn’t tell you anything you didn’t already know cos Sushi ruined it for everyone a few weeks back when she said about Libby coming back, and that other thing that I won’t mention in case you didn’t read that post either!
It took me a while to get used to neighbours on Channel 5, and I still don’t like the adverts, but the fact that it’s on 5 Life at 7pm as well each day in case you miss the 5.30pm one, and the omnibus have swayed me.
Harold dies.
Sorry, I meant diets.
Well, so much for my ‘giving up Neighbours’ - we got a new tv ariel and now we can get 5 again, so I’m totally hooked all over again. I didn’t realise Libby was back for good - she’s back on the credits and everything!
I missed the return of Libby. I’m going to see Ros at the weekend. I don;t want Neighbours to dictate our fun weekend but I think it will have to.
This post has nothing to do with Neighbours or the poem, but I thought it was interesting.
I’m going to the Manchester Museum of Science and Industry today with work. We’re taking a group of Year 9 kids who are in care to see Gunther von Hagens’ Body Worlds: The Original Exhibition of Real Human Bodies.
It’s basically an exhibition of bodies that people have donated “for the qualification of physicians and the instruction of laypersons.” Mr von Hagen uses a process called plastination to preserve the bodies. I think it involves sucking the air out and injecting stuff - as you can see from my description it’s all very scientific and technical!
Here’s a link to the Body World’s site http://www.bodyworlds.com/en/exhibitions/current_exhibitions.html
So I wondered what you all thought about it. I think it’s rather funny that we’re taking kids who have had a hard time in life who may have no parents to see an exhibition of dead bodies (it wasn’t my idea)!
I’m also concerned that we may get rotten veg thrown at us by protesters.
Any views????
I guess that because they are in care, that means that they don’t have any parents who can complain?
I don’t feel perticuarly strongly against it, but it wouldn’t interest me me go and see it.
Also, I am so dissapointed! I slept through the earthqauke last night! I was just a few miles away from the center, and people were feeling it as far away as london, but I slept straight through! Gutted!
THE EARTHQUAKE WAS AWESOME! Granted I was pooing my pants and was like woah woah WOAH! But it was ace. It was like being on a ride but not paying a tenner to get on it, Pete u missed a treat!
I missed it too, I was fast asleep and didn’t believe my friend who told me this morning, cos I normally wake up at the slightest noise or disturbance. I’m annoyed as well, don’t think I’ve ever been in an earthquake. I might move to India, they have good ones. Good’s not the right word really. Bad, that’s the one.
I felt the earthquake. It was scary. I’m sure I’d normally have slept through it but it occurred just at my “oh, time to get up and have a wee” time so I was kind of half awake. It totally freaked me out. Earthquakes in England. Can we blame that on global warming?
Oh, and the person who got injured, Andy, didn’t just get a bit of a scratch - he got a fractured pelvis after the chimney fell through the roof into his bedroom. I think that counts…!
Haha,
It shows how tiny our little country is that there’s one earthquake and everyone feels it (except Mat). If we ever had a big one, I think we’d just collapse and fall into the sea.
I didn’t feel it but all the staff team did. And we live in Brighton. I think I slept through it because the night before I didn’t go to sleep at all so I was a bit tired last night. I wish I’d felt it though. I wish I’d been up north! I felt an earthquake once but it wasn’t on the ’scary’ scale. It just felt like someone was walking up the stairs. Actually that was a bit scary seeing as it was at night and I was on my own in the attic room. But scary for different reasons.
I didn’t feel it down here in Devon - although I know you Northern people always forget about the south-west so I’m not sure you meant me anyway…
(And I was awake at about the right time - nothing shook).
On a similar note - one of the great things about getting a new computer is that I’ve been able to start again with everything. Not downloading much software or anything as I am doing most stuff online now. I have downloaded paint.net (anyone used that?) and Open Office. Also - found a very good plugin for Firefox users - sorry if it’s been mentioned before BUT I have found CTRL Tab Preview. Instead of scrolling through your open tabs one by one this viewer lets you scroll through them visually like the ALT & TAB effect of Windows. Very useful me thinks.
I love the CTRL Tab thing… altho… I don’t ever remember having to download it as a plugin. It just works…
Without any add-ons CTRL Tab just scrolls through the tabs one by one. If you add the above plugin, or indeed Tab Catalog, you can scroll through them visually and you can make your choice… that didn’t make my description from earlier any clearer did it? Sorry. Try either of them - you’ll see what I mean.
Someone write a post. I’ve not got anything to say at the moment but would like to hear if you guys do… Go on… you know you want to.
I’d rather talk about earthquakes than computers. I thought my 2 year old flat had been badly built and was falling down. Once I realised it wasn’t I decided I must have been dreaming and went back to sleep, but for about 5 mins I was very scared.