New Year's Day, Jan 1^st 2024

Well, hello to a brand new year:

2024

let's adore

yet more days

& wonderful ways

wake up

see what we'll make of it

 

on umpteenth day of the umpteenth year
lost count
no big deal
addiction to fiction

 

Opening a new Diary

Nearly said Dairy but I'm vegan

Here we are! How lucky.

Happy not to have hangover! So sunny...  gloriously sunny. Then, progressively more cloudy. Changing always.

Nonsense couplet cos I like the word, moxie.

being foxy
with more moxie

& again:

bonanza
another stanza
 

Jan 2^nd 2024

no winoweh
not a lion
except symbolically
as I am also
like a tiger
burning bright
yes bloody
tryin'

no ninja
tho I like
Japanese culture

(Drawing of the archetypical ninja

from a series of sketches of Hokusai.)

rains
pointless to complain
it will wane before I go insane
so hardly germane

but cut the crap
keep your trap shut

let there be

some jazzy 

 snazzy shenanigans

Jan 3^rd  more nonsense encore, just like the words:

we had a spat
& that is that
peeved
more than you'd have believed

when a kid
used to go to jumble sales
whereas now I rummage for things

Britain or  America

keep track
if people sass back
take it as an attack

Jan 4^th -  Eleventh day Of Xmas: 11 pipers piping!

New page, assiduity

if I'm poetic
it's just noetic

Jan 5^th -  Sky overcast grey maybe rain again later. Lowering sky. In the gloom before the gloaming. Nontheless lucid.

Brightening up now. Kind-hearted thoughts towards all.

Many lacunae in this. Avoiding effrontery about weather. Culminating in calumniation?

Meanwhile on a cosmic scale, astronomically, it has been speculated by renowned astrophysicist, Brian Cox, that stellar behemoth Betelgeuse, a Red Giant. in Orion will become a Supernova? Only a guess The video I'm watching is narrated by annoying A.I. that wrongly pronounces words.

Thought:

Doofus the stupid

reindeer was late

Jan 6^th - created nonsense

May bake a cake as they do en France.

Christmas Decorations to come down too.

Made William Blake page.

Jan 7^th - 

am a scrivener
in various senses of the word
it can be magic
tragic & all

(As well as writing, I can also tell the future by shapes revealed

in smoke, water or crystal ball)

vent it
ventilate
do what you will

Jan 8^th - Realized that Dollar & Dolour are homophones. Interesting!

dollars make me feel dolour
may be a scholar
but live in comparative squalor
a little off colour
as it were

           Created /scouts.

feeling so low
in a solo
tip to toe
will I grow

 he's a veritable halfwit
truly a twit
a bit into lit
like a nitwit
by another name
same difference
if you know what I mean
keen

Jan 9^th -  Created Mrs Blake

Re-watched the film 'Psycho':

don't worry
won't be staying
at the Bates motel
in a hurry

Created: Funambulist

Jan 10^th - 

ate then
eructated
belched
burped
 absurd words

Jan 11^th - Another, Samuel Beckett.

Jan 13^th - 

                                                             Balance...

Ada
Adores
Ardor

BLUE sky, cold...

New page, Awen.

Jan 15^th - Ditto: BLUE sky, cold...

Jan 16^th - Sunny but cold. Getting old. Aren't we all? How appalling.

New page, cluck

Jan 17^th -

not one for swank
or swagger
 tend to stagger

 bit of Rorschach blot
rascal
naughty not haughty

Warm, sitting in sunshine behind window pane. Brain melting.

ho hum
some dumb glum scum
succumb to numbness
in a nearby slum's 'lum'
fo fum

Jan 18^th -

so it's really not too late
to make affirmations
feel great elation
have all sorts of sensations
or make oblations to god

white doves
grey doves
same old young loves

Tried tricycle! I like the trike!

Jan 19^th - 

ITY HISTORY...
in Medici massacres
much bloodshed
many bled
***
**
*

Odalisque, new page.

Jan 20^th -  Red sky in morning, a warning to us.

Jan 21^st - 

don't be a twat
say where you're at
prat

Apophatic, Sacerdotal, Cataphatic? Am a bit discombobulated! Aren't you?

Went for jaunt on powered mobility scooter in icy wind. Collecting toilet rolls. Refreshing.

Jan 22^nd - Madness! My charming wife has thrown a shelf of books across the living room. Son has kicked me in the balls & sworn at me. I stay calm.

stay calm
amid the harm
thrown books
look
angry words
swears
as if they don't care
beware

Jan 23^rd - Could we chop weblog with axiom?

Cold wet.

New page, /franciscan

Just remembered:

Dad taught Lolly our budgie to say 'bugger the cat' cos it once took him in his mouth. I named the budgerigar, when I said 'I want,

want a lolly'

Jan 25^th - Another day.

Jan 26^th - Wind stopped eventually. Sunny. Warm behind window panes indoors.

Working online. New page, /Munch.

Jan 28^th - Technical probs. Grr.

New page, on Samuel Palmer.

Jan 29 ^th -

Gioconda

smile

Gautama

expression

777 pages in my website.

Jan 30 ^th - new page, Hopper.

Jan 31^st - new page, Ernst.

Feb 1^st - Imbolc, cross-quarter day.

Feb 2^nd - hope am having Cataract seen to today. Must pray to Saint Lucy. Old age, sickness. heading for death.

Made it passed 69 anyway.

Feb 3^rd -

Buddy Holly
not so jolly
died in plane crash
at 22 years old
that's not long
wrote & played
some wonderful songs
changed the face of rock & roll
still sounds good today
hurray

Feb 4^th - Need to be a patient patient!

Feb 5^th - Blue sky, few clouds, cold. Must see Doctor. Ho hum. Waited over 5 hours to be seen in hospital. Frustrated. Gave up & left.

Feb 6^th - Anniversary of father's birth in 1915. More uncertainty about my health

Feb 7^th - Hospital. Stayed overnight. Medication to keep high Blood Pressure under control.

Feb 8^th -  Heavy snow. Brrr!

Feb 9^th - New moon.

Feb 10^th - Year of Wood Dragon

Feb 13^th - Hospital Eye Centre.

Feb 14^th -  Valentine's Day.

New page, Charley.

Feb 15^th -  Encouraging if someone would TIP Yours Truly^TM, say, the cost of a coffee/tea...This vast website is offered FREE!

Feb 16^th -  New page, foggiest.

Feb 17^th - Finally, new page on sister.

Feb 18^th - Twinges of pain. Mustn't whinge about it.

Feb 19^th -  Einstein, new page.

Feb 20^th - my son, Osker's Birthday. He is now a teenager. We went to Odeon Lux cinema & watched "Migration''. Had meal.

Feb 21^st - Thought:

Amity

better than

 Enmity

 don't you agree

Feb 22^nd - Kay & I are going to see 'Bob Marley: One Love' film this evening...

Saw him perform many years ago. He did Redemption Song before it was officially released.

Praise JAH!

Wonderful film!

Feb 23^rd - Sunny day. Warm behind windowpane in my room.

Feb 24^th - Preparing to extradite Assange to USA. Wrote this long ago.

Full Moon today.

once when I was a a boy
had a stamp collection
suitable for inspection
I was proud of it
enjoyed
including a victorian stamp
gone now lost
o well
so it goes
impermanent
 

Feb 25^th - sunny & cold out. Warm indoors.
Feb 26^th - Kay, my kind consort, & I going to cinema today. Excited.

Enjoyed. Excellent films.

Feb 28^th - Dentist & Cinema to see Hamlet. Action-packed & lack of action day.

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The film was wonderful, acting& editing. We, Kay & I, watched it yesterday evening.

New page, /hockney

Feb 29^th - Leap Day, 2024 being a Leap Year. I intend to leap a little. It's good exercise!

March 1^st - Saint David's day. Hey hey. Daffodils.

March 2^nd - Finally got hold of a copy of Hamlet by its real author. De Vere.

Delighted De Vere is finally being recognised as the real author of the works of Shake-spear.

March 4^th, (Monday)

Don't forget: Gaza:

"eyeless in Gaza"

we don't want to see

assassinations

inhumanity

humiliations

daily misery

George Galloway recently won a victory in Rochdale, reminding voters of Israeli war crimes against the Palestinians.

so
nakba
intifada
in Gaza
insallah

Israelis lied

about occupied

Palestine

it's a war crime

won't we learn

from the March of Return

people are clearly

under seige

Zionism is wrong!

where you at
twat
why do that
doormat
not cool
cat

dot com

where you from

tom tom

March 5^th, (Tuesday)

in news

Israelis murder

Palestinians
starving

desperate for food

so-called flour massacre

nothing to do with flowers

Remember Tolkein

St.Patrick's Day today! Once had a 4-leaved clover. Gave it to someone who I thought needed good luck.

March 20^th

New page, /tara

take a puff
of that stuff
have a laugh
if you can
show you're a man
that's how I became an addict

March 21^st -

was in a noisy fracas
quite drastic alas
long ago in the past

March 22^nd -

buck up
good luck
if you're stage-struck
 

March 23^rd -

Watched animations etc by Suzanne Pitt. Wasn't aware of her work before.  Colourful. Fun.
Feeling surprisingly relaxed.

Bloody Genocide in Gaza continues...

Kate Middleton also has cancer! Like King Charles 3!

Famine in Sudan.

What  a jolly world!

Feeling surprisingly relaxed.

March 24^th - Sunday - day of rest? We shall see.

Nah! Seems like any other day.

Watched Nocturnal (Gianfranco Rosi, 2020) 'Shot over the course of three years between Syria, Iraq, Kurdistan, and Lebanon, Notturno follows different people from areas near war zones in the Middle East who are trying to start over again with their everyday lives...' (Wikipedia)

Warfare again. What an ecological cost!

Britain ADMITS Israel Is deliberately staving Palestinians in Gaza!

March 25^th (Mon) - monday dynamo anagram!

Rockstar philosopher and revolutionary Slavoj Žižek was 75 on 25 March.

Holi Festival.

Saw  film of Songs for Drella (John Cale & Lou Reed of Velvet Underground) about Andy Warhol.

Listened to the Mike Oldfield's famous Tubular Bells. Remember when it came out,1973.

(Iconic artwork)

March 26^th -

UK Court to deliver decision Assange's Extradition

March 27^th - New page, /elated

Recently remembered dad used to call me Dai Bach, Little Davy.

March 28^th - Maundy  Thursday.  Won't cheat. Will wash my feet.

March 29^th - Had some homemade Hot Cross Buns. Delicious!

March 30^th - Film wonderful yesterday. Sunny today. Warm like a plant in a greenhouse. Out of icy outside temperature

March 31^st - HOP HAPPY EASTER! Easter?  Lamb? Have been critically crucified but will rise again. Dust to dust. Ashes to Ashes.

'in the sure & certain hope

of the resurrection

into eternal life.''

(from Book of Common Prayer)

British Summer Time. Clocks went Forward.

Vegan, Sugar-free eggs for us.

April 1^{st  -} We are all April Fools!

April 3^{rd  -} Waiting for Spring.

April 4^{th  -} Watched The Pillow Book, a 1996 erotic drama film, directed by Peter Greenaway, Music by Brian Eno.

I type onto www, rather than use ink on human flesh.

April 5^th - Been listening to Steven Wilson, Insurgentes, The Harmony Codex etc

April 6^th -

forages

for ages

 heir's hair

waving in  air

Wordplay takes my mind off Zionist Genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.

April 7^th - New page, /species

April 8^th - New Moon today!

April 9^th - In  Gaza, Israeli genocide against Palestinians continues.

April 11^th - Wife & son away in York till this evening.

Watching Mubi movie, Journey to Italy by Rossellini 1954, considered a masterpiece:

My life is dolce far niente in a way.

Listened to a recording of Basil Bunting perform Walt Whitman's 'Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking'...

April 12^th - Re-watching Wim Wenders' latest film Perfect Days. Good music soundtrack. Inspired by Ozu? Saw it a while back, in cinema.

"A co-production between Japan and Germany, the film stars Kōji Yakusho in the role of a cleaner of public toilets in Tokyo."  ''The 4:3 aspect ratio of the film are all nods to Ozu''

Wikipedia)

April 13^th -

THRENODY

FOR  PALESTINIANS

grief
without relief

genocide
no pride
one side
lied
tries to get away with it

painting
ballet
words on page

same  difference

tho we age

April 14^th - Live-streaming Genocide  continues...

April 15^th - Windy... cold. Sunny outside. April showers

April 16^th - Watched Of Human Bondage (1934). Made Bette Davis a star.

April 17^th - Sat in sunshine of front garden this morning & admired Cherry Blossom.

April 18^th - Watched Man With a Movie  Camera, a wonderful 1929 experimental  Soviet Documentary film by Dziga Vertov:

April 19^th - Sat in morning sunshine of front garden for a while. Refreshing.

April 20^th - Sat out again: Sunny but felt quite cold. Watching movies on mubi...

April 21^st - Israeli genocide against Palestinians in Gaza continues.Yesterday's Iran attack on Zionist Israel was dangerous

April 22^nd - Watched Deception (Tromperie), 2021 film, based on Philip Roth novel

Weather wet & not warm yet. Kay  'n' son out till about 5pm.

April 23^rd -  St. George's Day. Shakespeare's Birthday but the man from Stratford didn't write the plays & poems, it was Ed. De Vere.
New page, Sherlock.

April 24^th - Israeli genocide against Palestinians in Gaza continues. Assange still facing extradition

April 25^th - 116^th Day of the Year. Going to cinema with my wife & Osker

Here's a little nonsense verse:

hark hush
Sherlock shark
to make a mark
goes for the kill
as he always will
mush mush
you lush
don't rush to blush

We saw Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire. Osker laughed in right places. Mildly entertaining.

April 26^th - Watching documentary re John Guilliano. Interesting. Man with a passion for fashion. Haut couture galore. One time alcoholic. Took cocaine. Lots of pills.

April 27^th - Bit lacklustre this morning. Kay & OAK gone to Blackpool for the day. Hope weather holds.

Listening to Van Morrison online. Videos of live performances.

April 28^th - New page, flap.

at my wit's end
I can't defend
any piquant page
full of rage

April 29^th -

Remembered how I first learnt about Buddhism from Christmas Humphreys. Christmas is a good name. Funny that he became associated with Buddhism!

Did new page, statue.

And christie

May 1^st - MAYDAY. Time for Revolution! International Workers Day. Beltane. (/celtic)

where was the green man
did we jump thru fire
& aspire

?

Went to dentist. Recollect.

May 3^rd - Watched some wonderful old Noam Chomsky videos on anarchism & so on.

May 4^th - What will happen today? La même chose?

Recall I used to have a girlfriend named Ingeborg. German.

New page, /scram

May 5^th - Sunday, the 126th day of the year so far.

Israeli genocide against Palestinians is unremitting.

May 6^th -

Working on new page, cosmos

don't speak with asperity
don't be
astringent
no

May 8^th - New Moon.

Just watched original version of Let It Be on Disney +. Don't forget Beatles...

See Beatlesmix.

Went to cinema in evening. Film about Assange. The Trust Fall: Julian Assange. Poor guy. Imprisoned for telling the truth.

May 9^th - New page, /rien.

May 11^th - We were going to see movie of Macbeth, starring Ralph Fiennes. But Kay  got angry & has cancelled it. I won't be able to go on my own! Frustrating.

May 12^th -

sometimes I feel
godforsaken
but All-ah is always here
to cheer me

Watched Night Moves (2013)

An Eco thriller.

All I want for xmas is my 2 front teeth or a denture!

May 13^th - Saw 1917 film, directed by Sam Mendes.

May 14^th -

(nonsense verse:)

tried not to lie
sang in no choir
used to light fires
mired in the dire

May 15^th - Nakba Day'.

May 18^th - bought edition of Macbeth rightfully ascribed to De Vere. (See folio)

May 19^th - new page, wowed.

May 20^th - watched Japanese movie Antiporno:

New page, lush

May 20^th - Watched Greenaway Film 1980 The Falls, a mock documentary.

Hola? Ciao? So it goes in this bloody world.

May 26^th - Trinity Sunday!

New page, Palimpsest.

May 28^th -

Saw Midwich Cuckoos in Netflix series plus old B&W film version & pdf of John Wyndham's book - getting my fill of  this creepy sci-fi

May 29^th - Zionist Israelis continue with genocide in Gaza. Livestreamed...

May 30^th -

Kay took this yesterday evening.

May 31^st - Breezy.

June 1^st - Pinch Punch...

New page, /eureka

June 2^nd - Sunny Sunday. Sat in front garden for  while, warm/quite hot.

Photo  by Kay

June 3^rd -

got a bee in my bonnet

honey on hand

I could write a sonnet

can you understand
?

June 4^th -

June 5^th - Watching John Ford's film "How Green Was My Valley" in Black & White.

June 6^th - New Moon.

Watching 'Where the Olive Trees Weep'. Moving, powerful documentary film. Zionist Israelis robbing Palestinians of their land. Terrible what they are doing to Gaza.

 June 7^th - I like to loaf around, to lounge.

 June 8^th -

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I see
kanji
in front of me
look
forget the book
you forsook
 

 June 9^th - Watching Suncoast film, featuringWoody Harrelson, who is vegan & anarchist.

June 11^th - New Page, ConanDoyle.

Watching videos on Charles Bukowski. Watching film, Barfly, for which he wrote the script.

Watched "Bright Young Things is a 2003 British drama film written and directed by Stephen Fry. The screenplay, based on the 1930 novel  Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh, provides satirical social commentary about the Bright Young People - young and carefree London aristocrats and bohemians - as well as society in general, in the interwar era'' (Wikipedia)

June 14^th - New page, /jiggered

Watched The Dreamers, 2003 film by Bernado Bertolucci about 1968 Student Riots in Paris.

June 16^th - Bloomsday!

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(James-Joyce caricature sketch of Leopold-Bloom)

I have been rather distrait. Am watching lots of videos about Turiya, the ultimate state of consciousness, pure consciousness. OM.

Watched video, Tune In - The Formative Years of The Beatles - Historian Mark Lewisohn.

June 17^th - To celebrate M.C, Escher's birthday, have watched lots of videos about him.

Watched Escher: Journey into Infinity film, narrated by Stephen Fry.

Recollect I liked Escher's work as a student

Nearly forgot, Eid.

coffee
in a coffin
clearly I'm no boffin
but both think
as well as drink
is there a link

Here I sit, in my eyesome atelier (studio/workshop).

June 20^th - Videos about Walt Whitman.

June 21^st - Summer Solstice.

14^th Wedding Anniversary.

As you know, I like a good pun.

Healthy mature trees, home to birds & squirrels, being chopped down. Next door neighbour. This is happening at a time of climate change. So sad. Tragic.

Sat in sunshine, hot. Need shade of a tree in this weather.

"Progress?''

Feel so sad & frustrated.

Not sated. Heart-broken.

June 23^rd - new page, absurd

It was Full Moon on 22^nd.

June 24^th - Monday.

To coin a phrase!

Wa ʿalaykumu s-salam?

June 25^th - Assange finally freed. Hurray!

June 26^th - Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is back in Australia. He was severely punished for speaking truth to power.

Rediscovered this old photo,  taken in 2019 near end of back garden:

We all  die.

Meanwhile we bushwhack our way thru this difficult world...

June 29^th -

D'accord.

June 30^th -  Sunday. Last day of month. Better make the most of it.

glean
what you can
know what I mean

July - Pinch punch et cet...

Where do we go from here?

July 2^nd -  the first becomes the second.

July 3^rd - Dental Appointment today. Had filling. Thrilling. I was willing. Not wailing.

July 4^th - General Election today. Labour predicted to win. Compare & contrast way Corbyn was treated.

July 5^th - New page, /dip.

Starmer won't help situation in Gaza

New Moon.

July 6 ^th -
 

 going  nowhere
like a blue-arsed fly
don't try

am a bit slow

don't ya know

July 7^th - Watched interesting video, re-acquanting myself with the Mandelbrot Set:

My page on Mandelbrot.

https://davyking.com/2010.html#mandelbrot

Look at Chaos...

July 8^th - More nonsense:

I gloat

like a goat

& float

in the moat

I'm that kind of guy

don't ask why

Yearning with mes yeux...

July 9^th - New page, freaking.

Listening to Douglas Adams' The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy on Audible & watching the movie version.

July 10^th - New page, pleasure.

July 11^th - New page, enough.

July 12^th - Watched Ken Russell's wonderful - Delius Song Of Summer (1968

July 14^th - Euro2024 Final this evening, England versus Spain. NB Spain won. Suits me as I have Welsh & Spanish blood in me.

New page: banjaxed.

Trump was nearly assassinated but it produced an iconic photo...

Triumph for trump?

July 15^th - Watched the Rocky Road to Dublin film documentary by Peter Lennon.

July 16^th - Anniversary of First Atomic Bomb explosion (1945)

July 18^th - watched Netflix version of Hillbilly Enigma by Vanne, the man appointed by Trump to be VP, when he comes to power again for a second time.

Vanne
the man
appointed by Trump
to be
VP
vain
no hillbilly
enigmatic
maybe

Watched Los Angeles Plays Itself film documentary. Fascinating.

July 19^th - Hot sunny day. A scorcher! Listening to some cool of music.

July20^th -  Recent assassination attempt against Trump still raising some relevant tricky questions' & the role of Israeli Lobby in UK election...

July21^st - Fool Moon today. New page: know

July22^nd -

2024
what's it for
another war
or
is there more
we can ignore

From Fool Moon to Pink Moon?

Nick Drake
was no fake
for goodness sake
he couldn't take it any more

July23^rd - New page, madrigal

July24^th - Photo by my wife, Kay:

July 25^th -  New page,  quirk

July 27^th -
 

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