A Poem for January
Posted: Wednesday, 17 January 2007 |
Happy New Year everyone! Here's a little poem for January...
Dogger, Fisher, German Bight
Once again the weather's s****
Howling wind, cold rain and hail
Calmac's boats will never sail
Today
Lundy, Fastnet, Irish Sea
Looks about Force Ten to me
The bin's away; blown down the croft
It's ragged contents swirl aloft
Again
Rockall, Malin, Hebrides
I'm fed up with days like these
It's still dark at half past ten
When will we see the sun again?
Ever?
Fair Isle, Faroes, South East Iceland
Sorry kids, the veg is still canned
I'm cooking tea by naked flame
Oh Lord, don't send us more the same
Tomorrow
Dogger, Fisher, German Bight
Once again the weather's s****
Howling wind, cold rain and hail
Calmac's boats will never sail
Today
Lundy, Fastnet, Irish Sea
Looks about Force Ten to me
The bin's away; blown down the croft
It's ragged contents swirl aloft
Again
Rockall, Malin, Hebrides
I'm fed up with days like these
It's still dark at half past ten
When will we see the sun again?
Ever?
Fair Isle, Faroes, South East Iceland
Sorry kids, the veg is still canned
I'm cooking tea by naked flame
Oh Lord, don't send us more the same
Tomorrow
Comments
Blimey, what a pic - and I thought it was windy here! What a lovely poem. It should be set to music or become a standard Island Nursery Rhyme!
Freerange from Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire
Now that is what I call seas of biblical proportions. I'm glad I work ashore.
Hyper-Borean from South of Fair Isle
Oh Bill Bailey won't you please come home/Please come home Forthwith/That Fitzroy's givin' me grief and pain/He's Tyne to wandrin' on the Spanish Main/I got Rockall in the bank you see/Not gettin' any younger in my late Forties/No-one wants to know in the Hebrides/Oh Bill Bailey won't you please come home.
Flying Cat from under an old folkie
Just promise me it only applies to January
Nic from Coll
FC, under an old folkie! Who is this person?I think we should be told.
Hyper-Borean from A revivalist position
Phew! Deo Gravitas!
Flying Cat from crawling-out-from-under
What a picture, is it real or tampered with? Cannot imagine being on that ferry, poor people!
Ragnhild from Iceland
Ragnhild, it is real, it's actually the Suilven, which used to be the Calmac boat that did the Stornoway - Ullapool crossing, and then went over to New Zealand, ending up in Fiji. This is a still from a video clip, taken while she was still in New Zealand. You can watch it at http://youtube.com/watch?v=G10KuLTQWzU but it's not for the fainthearted! How's the wee guy by the way?!
BoB from Lewis
hey, the wee guy is fine, just tanked him up with milk and put him to bed, snooore snooore, he fell asleep immediately. haha :D I Loooove being a mum! Are you going to the Sound of Rum festival this year, apparently it is going to be the last one! we are going!
Ragnhild from Iceland
jeezo - i did seabird surveys from the monkey island on the Suilven but not in weather like that - we were also nearly run down by it somewhere in de minch doing another seabird survey when it was on its way to NZ - happy days!
col from galley
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