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Andrew Marr and ‘Timothy Winters’
OK OK so it was mostly “ears like bombs” that made me think of this “rhyme”! And, at the risk of arguing myself out of it that’s definitely where the similarity ends – I’m not seriously suggesting that Andrew Marr “sleeps in a sack on the kitchen floor”, or that he was regularly dosed with […]
Apple Martin and ‘The Orange’
November 7, 2011
It is ironic, given the famously macrobiotic, alfalfa-sprouting life-style of her famous parents (Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin), that Apple Martin’s name reminds me of nothing so much as an Apple Martini. And, maybe I’ve had too many Appletinis in my time but I had immense trouble thinking of poems featuring apples (suggestions welcome in […]
Pippa Middleton and ‘A Subaltern’s Love Song’
September 19, 2011
Don’t give me “P-Middy” – Pippa Middleton is always going to be more Tally-Ho than Ghetto; more “damn fine filly, what” than “keepin’ it real in Philly, word”; more fifty thou than fiddy cents (but on that note, hey Mr 50 Cent why don’t you release a perfume called Fifty Scent then give me fiddy perCent of the […]
Victoria Beckham and ‘Sailing to Byzantium’
August 8, 2011
Harper Seven? It seems Posh ‘erself has gone all literary, naming her new daughter after Harper Lee. Unfortunately the addition of hubby David’s football number makes the kid sound more like something out of Star Trek than the author of a beloved children’s classic (I would have said specifically Deep Space Nine but the words “deep” […]
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