What a week! Before I explain lets here from Errol:
“I have a genius for living, but I turn many things into crap.”
From My Wicked Wicked Ways, by Errol Flynn 1959.
What embarrassment! What shame! Is there nowhere to hide? Defeated by technology! Friday’s post Rolls-Royce by TARQUIN O’FLAHERTY (here) included the most distressing typos. Where I had sought to correct and standardise RollsRoyce, Rolls Royce, RR and Rools Ryste, and with all but RR successfully changed them to the correct Rolls-Royce, with RR in multiple places I singularly failed. Carriage became CaRolls-Royceiage. I acknowledge with all humility that this obscured meaning, causing confusion among readers and angst in the author. For that I humbly apologize. Still the piece remains uncorrected as a reminder to the publisher to take more care in future. AND it is still a remarkable work.
Monday’s posting Fermentations (here) by Ira Maine. “We apologise for this posting, we had asked for something of substance, yet are left, at the last moment with only this. Trite and inaccurate as it is.”
Tuesday saw an agricultural piece by Quentin Cockburn on days, shearing and governors. I have no idea what it really meant. Perhaps you’ll work it out and let me know by reading here.
Wednesday brought us to Monet, a subject we had some fun with. In fact our embittered illustrator, Sir Bertram Postule, penned a rather lovely poem to accompany it. REad about art here
From art we moved to architecture, with Quentin’s great illustrated article on a strange
“house within the Butresses” of a fifteenth century French church. Read the story here
In this weeks Musical Dispatch from the Front we hear mention of Hunter S Thompson, Edmund Muskie and George McGovern. It is interesting to see how these names relate to the ongoing subjugation of indigenous Australians – here.
And Poetry Sunday this week brought the exceptional work of Lionel Fogarty (whose use of language reminds me of Anthony Burgess’ A Clockwork Orange) with Saints are Homeless Here
Thanks for reading, hopefully next week’s wrap will be more timely
Regards
Cecil and Quentin
Royal Norfolk and Suffolk Yacht Club, Lowestoft, UK.