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POEMS

November Passion
Father's Day
Frog Blog
Summer Psalm
The Garden Party
Autumn Genesis


PICTURES
Teddy goes to Oxford
Birthday Dip
Class of 75
The Morning After

EVENTS
Sailing Class
England Expects

Some Poetry Sites I've been enjoying recently

The Funeral of Scyld Scefing
From the Old English Aloud site- click on an illuminated capital letter to hear each verse read aloud

The BBC site is so vast - it never fails to turn up something new. I came across these while browsing:

Interactive poetry
Fascinating blend of poetry and pictures.

Poets reading aloud
From ancient (Tennyson reading The Light Brigade on a wax cylinder in 1890) to modern (Benjamin Zephaniah reading 'Turkeys'on video) an amzing collection of poets reading their own works

Autumn in Ilford

All the pictures were taken in the last week of November in Valentines Park. They were much better in real life! It was an interesting task wandering around trying to find colours in the park but I was frustrated not to find some sloe berries to finish with especially as I was sure they were there somewhere. I'll keep looking...