4x4s and Reliability
I watched BBC’s Breakfast programme this morning… Why do I do this? Is it a form of masochism? Anyway, the item that caught my attention […]
Articles by Longrider
The Old Sea Dog
I’m feeling poetic today. The Old Sea Dog The old sea dog reflects on happier times;As the spume-tipped waves crash to the shore;He recalls far […]
The First Day of September
Summer is no more, deceased, dead, and is gone.Today is the day the summer dies and I mourn as it passes.Freshly scrubbed children gather in […]
The Modern Totalitarian
The muse struck once more. This little ditty is less formal than the sonnet; simply rhyming couplets in a series of quatrains. I’ll admit to […]
Sonnet for the Free
Our democracy is but a century young;In this our supposèd land for the free.Yet now our liberty dies ere it’s begun.Killed by those who launder our diction’ry. Our ID belongs to […]
I’m Honoured
My polemic earlier on has warranted a bloody devil award. Well, I don’t know what to say… Thankyou to my mother who claims responsibility for […]
How to Make a Cat Yawn
I’ve been trying to get a picture like this for a long time. There’s something comical about the way cats split their heads wide open […]