THIRSTY SWAN

Not the loveliest weather today, rather grey the thin clouds and only after lunch Piet Hein and I walked downhill, for buying one or two things and finding our photo.
We walked to the Weser through the camping field and we marvelled at the ducks to came flying from the other side. The swan pair who had eating grass came walking and swimming too.
I had given Mischa the little book by Jerome K. Jerome, Three men in a boat, for reading in the train and she was so enthusiast about it, she kept laughing she told me when we phoned. I liked that a lot. I had done the same when I read the book for the first time too,
I looked upon wiki to freshen up my memory of the life of this author and I found a filmed version of a play Jerome had written: The passing of the third floor back, written in 1908 and filmed in 1918 and 1935.
I watched the first half of the second version on you tube.
I'll ask Piet Hein to find the memories of Jerome written in My Life and Times, as a present for my birthday. Another gift I would like to receive is a collection of the haikus of Billy Collins, sometime ago mentioned by a fellow-friend on blip.

My haiku:

Grass and grass again
The swans eat in each other's
Company quietly

And the proverb:

He/she knows not a B from a bull's foot.

(= entirely illiterate)

1401  in Polit. Poems (Wright)



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