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When IS Caturday?
2008.08.08
Purr. Squawk. Sneeze. A limited vocabulary, but mine own.
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Purr. Squawk. Sneeze. A limited vocabulary, but mine own.
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Horses, waiting to pounce once the little ones' backs are turned.
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Horses, waiting to pounce once the little ones' backs are turned.
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Don't jump! There's only three inches of water! (That's a Global Warning.)
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Don't jump! There's only three inches of water! (That's a Global Warning.)
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So few fine days this year; enough to make a cat cross. As you see. But horses evidently like children, and my missus and youngest offspring clearly like the Dudwell stream that runs through, and annually floods, Rudyard Kipling's Lower River Field at his gorgeous house Bateman's in East Sussex. The field features in the poet's 'The Land':
When Julius Fabricius, Sub-Prefect of the Weald,
In the days of Diocletian owned our Lower River-field,
He called to him Hobdenius - a Briton of the Clay,
Saying: "What about that River-piece for layin' in to hay?"
The rest is, IMHO, worth spending a few moments reading for the sheer English history of it, even though it's by Kipling. Do you like Kipling? I don't know, I've never kippled. The old ones are the old ones eh what?
Not up to RoberttheBob, mind you.
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Comments
Thanks - this is such a lovely blog! and a fantastic poem old thing!
Well, I have read the blog, it is quite arty! Well as in, I don't understand it??? Too English! En francais s'il vous plait! Mais pas de poesie car autrement je vais vous redemander de traduire en anglais, puis en francais again... Ah ces francais, il faut les renvoyer chez eux, n'est-ce pas Robin!
