Shame, shame.  No weekly wrap for 22 July, However as Errol said a fortnight ago “I have a genius for living, but I turn many things into crap.”
(From My Wicked Wicked Ways, by Errol Flynn 1959), and that is so true.
Well, lets look back and see what we’ve done, and might I say, we have yet to miss a daily post!

That week we missed included a piece on dogs by Ira Maine “As legend has it”, another titled “Plonque“, by our resident sage Tarquin O’Flaherty, thence to the noted Orcadian writer George Mackay Brown on the origin of stories, who really owns them – “Whose art is it”.  (PC will re-visit this theme at a later date in terms of Intellectual Property, very much from the sense that “no man is an island”.)

Quentin contributed a Gallic piece on Cigarettes, followed by a disturbing story on weather, “The Shipping News” by Ira Maine.  Our Musical Dispatch for the week contrasted Kerala with the situation of indigenous Australians.  Our poem for the week was The Windhover by Gerard Manley Hopkins, “an extraordinarily  accomplished poem.”

This was Monday’s post.  You have to ask “are they getting lazy?”

However Quentin made up for this (in part) with correspondence regarding the privileged birth of a child into inherited privilege titled NBT.

Major Trauma at Endette Hall was reported on by Ira Maine, a most disturbing story.  From there Cecil reported on Boats, with a rejoinder from Tarquin.

On Choosing a Wife was the title of Friday’s post, an extract from John Stewart Collis’ “The Worm Forgives The Plough”, and we ask what relevance this has today.

Our Musical Dispatch takes an ‘Irish’ look at the implementation of the Governments farcical and racist approach to Indigenous Affairs.  

“Winter” is the title of our Poem this week, written by Orcadian poet Robert Rendall.

Thanks for reading, hopefully our Weekly Wrap will be … Weekly.

Regards
Cecil and Quentin
Burnham on Crouch, Essex.