Author: Anthony Irving
Those Nursery Rhymes that we heard in our youth
Those Nursery Rhymes that we heard in our youth, were not as innocent as we like to remember them. Some examples………….being, Humpty Dumpty sat on the wall, but in truth he did not have a great fall, because all the…
Politics
Have you ever though about the nonsense they talk about in the Senate. Shouting like angry school children, before being admonished by the head teacher. Do our elected senators adhere to the wishes of their constituents……….! With apologies to old…
Feet
Some people just can’t stop talking, whenever or, wherever they are. It is as if they have verbal diarrhea. I know a lady tall and sweet, who opens her mouth, just to change feet. She annoys people in every way,…
Hero : A Legend Of The West
My favourite film genre was the Western. Now sadly, the Western has had to make way for, invaders from another galaxy and superheroes that will defend us from an ideology seeking to destroy mankind. So, in reality, nothing has changed. Perhaps…
Film Titles
Have you ever wondered how a writer comes up with a title, for a theatrical production or, screenplay. Here’s a famous example. It was a great movie, so they say. Adapted from a play. Garson Kanin wrote it to…
Cultural Pleasures
Those great symphonies, operas, and classical melodies, that spin around in our brain or, those great works of art. What inspired them…………? Often people will say play us, something by Wolfgang Amadeus or, agree there was none more prolific than,…
To Let
Be warned. Be careful, before you sign a lease or, agreement to buy He entered through the door, to check what he had bought, but once inside, he knew he’d been caught. It was a large, shiny marble latrine, although,…
The Party
Imagine arranging a party and being able to invite legendary stars of the silver screen. Cagney would arrive saying, “You dirty rat”, Karloff could come, because his real name was Pratt. Tracy and Hepburn, could come as a pair, then,…
Authors
Have you ever wondered how the great writers form their ideas for a story. Here is the answer……………………. Truman had many epiphany’s, one of which was, Breakfast at Tiffany’s. Steinbeck walked a different path, that led him to, The Grapes…
Day dreaming, can be dangerous………..
Three Ships In my seaside home of cobbled stone whilst, passing time on my own, three ships came sailing past, with stately form and billowing mast. Were they on their way to The Spanish Main, I thought…………. as I pulled…