Corona Bingo...

[Just One More]

https://www.simonarmitage.com/wp-content/uploads/Lockdown-by-Simon-Armitage.pdf

 

From the man Miss I once rubbed!

And I couldn’t escape the waking dream
of infected fleas

in the warp and weft of soggy cloth
by the tailor’s hearth

in ye olde Eyam.
Then couldn’t un-see

the Boundary Stone,
that cock-eyed dice with its six dark holes,

thimbles brimming with vinegar wine
purging the plagued coins.

Which brought to mind the sorry story
of Emmott Syddall and Rowland Torre,

star-crossed lovers on either side
of the quarantine line

whose wordless courtship spanned the river
till she came no longer.

But slept again,
and dreamt this time

of the exiled yaksha sending word
to his lost wife on a passing cloud,

a cloud that followed an earthly map
of camel trails and cattle tracks,

streams like necklaces,
fan-tailed peacocks, painted elephants,

embroidered bedspreads
of meadows and hedges,

bamboo forests and snow-hatted peaks,
waterfalls, creeks,

the hieroglyphs of wide-winged cranes
and the glistening lotus flower after rain,

the air
hypnotically see-through,rare,

the journey a ponderousone at times, longand slow
but necessarily so

Feck me, it sounds just like Big Barry from the tip at chucking out time in the Red Lion on Saturday night

[Barman]

Interesting.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(20)30371-6/fulltext

For reasons that aren't clear yet, smokers are significantly under-represented in the coronavirus wards of Europe, America and China.

That great visionary, Bill Hicks was right all along 

I know, I'm taking up the tabs! 

[Barman]

See also, this...

[Nick]

 

[Steve]

Interesting.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(20)30371-6/fulltext

For reasons that aren't clear yet, smokers are significantly under-represented in the coronavirus wards of Europe, America and China.

That great visionary, Bill Hicks was right all along 

Ah but you get old people and smoking people but not too many old smoking people
 

[apc2010]

https://www.simonarmitage.com/wp-content/uploads/Lockdown-by-Simon-Armitage.pdf

 

From the man Miss I once rubbed!

And I couldn’t escape the waking dream
of infected fleas

in the warp and weft of soggy cloth
by the tailor’s hearth

in ye olde Eyam.
Then couldn’t un-see

the Boundary Stone,
that cock-eyed dice with its six dark holes,

thimbles brimming with vinegar wine
purging the plagued coins.

Which brought to mind the sorry story
of Emmott Syddall and Rowland Torre,

star-crossed lovers on either side
of the quarantine line

whose wordless courtship spanned the river
till she came no longer.

But slept again,
and dreamt this time

of the exiled yaksha sending word
to his lost wife on a passing cloud,

a cloud that followed an earthly map
of camel trails and cattle tracks,

streams like necklaces,
fan-tailed peacocks, painted elephants,

embroidered bedspreads
of meadows and hedges,

bamboo forests and snow-hatted peaks,
waterfalls, creeks,

the hieroglyphs of wide-winged cranes
and the glistening lotus flower after rain,

the air
hypnotically see-through,rare,

the journey a ponderousone at times, longand slow
but necessarily so

Feck me, it sounds just like Big Barry from the tip at chucking out time in the Red Lion on Saturday night

  

[apc2010]

Interesting.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(20)30371-6/fulltext

For reasons that aren't clear yet, smokers are significantly under-represented in the coronavirus wards of Europe, America and China.

That great visionary, Bill Hicks was right all along 

Bill.........

"Hitler was just an under-achiever "......

[The Moan Ranger]

Interesting.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(20)30371-6/fulltext

For reasons that aren't clear yet, smokers are significantly under-represented in the coronavirus wards of Europe, America and China.

That great visionary, Bill Hicks was right all along 

Bill.........

"Hitler was just an under-achiever "......

 

[Nick]

https://www.simonarmitage.com/wp-content/uploads/Lockdown-by-Simon-Armitage.pdf

 

From the man Miss I once rubbed!

And I couldn’t escape the waking dream
of infected fleas

in the warp and weft of soggy cloth
by the tailor’s hearth

in ye olde Eyam.
Then couldn’t un-see

the Boundary Stone,
that cock-eyed dice with its six dark holes,

thimbles brimming with vinegar wine
purging the plagued coins.

Which brought to mind the sorry story
of Emmott Syddall and Rowland Torre,

star-crossed lovers on either side
of the quarantine line

whose wordless courtship spanned the river
till she came no longer.

But slept again,
and dreamt this time

of the exiled yaksha sending word
to his lost wife on a passing cloud,

a cloud that followed an earthly map
of camel trails and cattle tracks,

streams like necklaces,
fan-tailed peacocks, painted elephants,

embroidered bedspreads
of meadows and hedges,

bamboo forests and snow-hatted peaks,
waterfalls, creeks,

the hieroglyphs of wide-winged cranes
and the glistening lotus flower after rain,

the air
hypnotically see-through,rare,

the journey a ponderousone at times, longand slow
but necessarily so

Feck me, it sounds just like Big Barry from the tip at chucking out time in the Red Lion on Saturday night

  

Philistines! 

[Grumpmeister]

https://www.simonarmitage.com/wp-content/uploads/Lockdown-by-Simon-Armitage.pdf

 

From the man Miss I once rubbed!

And I couldn’t escape the waking dream
of infected fleas

in the warp and weft of soggy cloth
by the tailor’s hearth

in ye olde Eyam.
Then couldn’t un-see

the Boundary Stone,
that cock-eyed dice with its six dark holes,

thimbles brimming with vinegar wine
purging the plagued coins.

Which brought to mind the sorry story
of Emmott Syddall and Rowland Torre,

star-crossed lovers on either side
of the quarantine line

whose wordless courtship spanned the river
till she came no longer.

But slept again,
and dreamt this time

of the exiled yaksha sending word
to his lost wife on a passing cloud,

a cloud that followed an earthly map
of camel trails and cattle tracks,

streams like necklaces,
fan-tailed peacocks, painted elephants,

embroidered bedspreads
of meadows and hedges,

bamboo forests and snow-hatted peaks,
waterfalls, creeks,

the hieroglyphs of wide-winged cranes
and the glistening lotus flower after rain,

the air
hypnotically see-through,rare,

the journey a ponderousone at times, longand slow
but necessarily so

Feck me, it sounds just like Big Barry from the tip at chucking out time in the Red Lion on Saturday night

  

Philistines! 

Bloody hell that Phyllis Tine seems to write an awful lot of stuff 

[The Moan Ranger]

Interesting.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(20)30371-6/fulltext

For reasons that aren't clear yet, smokers are significantly under-represented in the coronavirus wards of Europe, America and China.

That great visionary, Bill Hicks was right all along 

Bill.........

"Hitler was just an under-achiever "......

Bill was always going to be a smoker with initials B&H 

[Nick]

 

[apc2010]

Interesting.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(20)30371-6/fulltext

For reasons that aren't clear yet, smokers are significantly under-represented in the coronavirus wards of Europe, America and China.

That great visionary, Bill Hicks was right all along 

Bill.........

"Hitler was just an under-achiever "......

Bill was always going to be a smoker with initials B&H 

 

[Barman]

Interesting.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(20)30371-6/fulltext

For reasons that aren't clear yet, smokers are significantly under-represented in the coronavirus wards of Europe, America and China.

That great visionary, Bill Hicks was right all along 

Bill.........

"Hitler was just an under-achiever "......

Bill was always going to be a smoker with initials B&H 

 

 

[Nick]

Woke up to over 80 text messages from SUzi. Nervous breakdown looms