February 25, 2005
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Nothing special today… Been writing poems and prose, so the truth doesn’t get much of a look in!
Notes from Lord Pineapple.
LordPineapple =Now. Tiffy Witherington Spotlight.
Monday: Story by Sophie Lucy Morgan, aged ten.
The Three_Headed_Sarahs are away. Their sons just put a blog up, but the Sarahs’ won’t be back yet.
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First snow of the season this week, not much snow here, but the north of England has been hit badly with sport fixures canceled and some terrible deaths.
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Could go out somewhere this weekend, weather permitting, but not sure I have the stamina in me, anyway, I have so much shopping to do it’s unbelievable. But where to go? Bleinheim Palace? It all sounds so naff when there is a world beyond my reach and a passport full of dust.
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About fifty years ago I set myself a list of things to do. I was always writing and collecting lists. The internet alone stopped a lot of my lists like Surnames ending with such “Suffolks” (as I call them) as “-by”, “-field” and so on. I put Some of them on the internet even. At http://3sarahs.homestead.com/surnames.html though a lot of the pages are now missing. Common names of proper stars, horses names, names of roses… Of course the internet have all of these, I have even printed off pages, but it’s not the same.
Anyway, I made a list of 100 things I wanted to do with my life. A lot of the on this list now seem fanciful, the rag-to riches ones, the dying-famous ones. But one thing on the list was visiting America. Will that happen? I have been invited, though heard little since, but I won’t harp on this, for doubts about me not going is not down to lack of trust in the inviters, but the fact that things on that list no longer come true. Since 1996, not one thing on that list has come true, however mundane, and it’s hard to believe for me that any will.
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Other hobbies I had were all childish in a way, and my interest in them vanished after my stroke, which was also the time my kids became to be teenagers and older. Origami is the big one. My son Darren now has my books and he’s the master now, making them for his betroved’s little boy from a failed marriage plus his nieces and nephews. Word-games also, I made up tons of Tom-Swifties and laddergrams, and even added to some internet sites since. Limericks and clerihews too.
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I See People who I am visiting are not visiting back, despite their updating their blogs. The list contains some people I thought were my friends, so to you all from New Zealand to Kent to Iowa…Sorry if I offened you, not that you’ll read this!
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Only bits and pieces today. I have not got this blog of truth worked out yet, so it’s still very self-centured and conceited, but I’ll try in time to be less introverted.
Meanwhile my LORD PINEAPPLE Blog is up with a spotlight on Tiffy Witherington, and on Monday there will be a story by Sophie Lucy Morgan.
I am beginning to realise that I am not all that good at this. There must be out there a page or two on “How to write successful blogs” But if I did that I’ll be inviting you all by subscription only, say 200 dollars per year. That’ll cut the reading of it down to zero!
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Been looking at Google, when I started out as Lord Pineapple, there was only me, now he’s the name of a fruit shop in South America and the name of someone in an on-line game, and characters in two different other on-line games!
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Terry. The Clown From Clowne.
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P.S.
To Becca: ( LittleEgypt )
I have named one of my plastic daffodils
After you.
That might seem an insult
But it is not.
For the daffodils are the last things I see
At night,
And the first things I see
In the morning.
So you will be there
Next to me
All night long.
Terry, Lord Pineapple.
Comments (39)
yes, you should visit america soon before we sell it to the chinese
I hope you can come to America. It is a large country with a lot of diversity. I think Becca will be very pleased as she needs all of our thoughts right now! I am sorry your readers have go astray. Maybe it is just a busy time for them and they will come back like stray kittens. Sending lots of hugs from my part of America…the California Central Coast
Nancy
I hope you do come to America. Where ever you go I will travel there to see you
Never give up hope, hope is all we really have. Lists and plans… those are just wishes and it’s good to wish for things.
You are so sweet. I hope you are doing well and that you have a very nice week-end.
I think that poem for Becca is very nice. Daffodils are hope!
@–>— Rosemary
i heard thru the ))))))))) u werecoming for a visit to America i invited u long ago but noooooooo u were clowin’ around smile* maybe u need to update ur list maybe there are some new things to do i am most sure u will be seeing the buffalo roam lord magi/angel
ps it alwayz hurtz me to see a pineapple cry Lord magi
That is a sweet thought for Becca! I have been thinking about her, too. She was so nice to let me join the blogring a little early, and to “drop in” now and then, too. What were some of your other aspirations on your list? I found a list I had written about 35 years ago, and was a little sad to see I had accomplished NOTHING on it. However, the direction my life has gone has been so different from what I imagined, that it is no wonder! Plus, I have achieved other things that were not on that list.
What is Blenheim Palace?
Where would you go, if you came to the U.S.?
I’m sorry if I do not get back to you as often as I should.
Good evening Sir LP, thanks for stopping by my site. America?? No time to read Monk’s coming on LOL. Later I will catch up on you!!
Praying for Little Egypt
I should think a blog of truth would be a very difficult thing to produce. Not from the honesty aspect, but merely because our truths can change daily as our memories change, no ?
Lord List Maker?! Items on lists don’t all get done, but can be things we aspire to do, yearn to do, or screw it. I am a list crazy person. Started when I was young–had to make a list of what to bring to my friend’s house for a sleepover. (back when there were record albums and acoustic guitars). Lists hold our hopes also. I have posted ‘truths’, but there is a part of me that is afraid if I completely bare myself, I will become too vulnerable. I may earn ‘enemies’ that tire of me. But Truth is honorable.
Love the poem for Becca–think of her a lot. Looking forward to Tiffy and Sophie, as well as more Terry.
Hugs to you…
“blog of truth”… I like that. I could never do it though because I’m never really sure which truth is the one I believe that day. Don’t worry about being self centered. People love to get glimpses into other peoples heads. Hoping for that one little slip… the one that shows them that they are better than you. I don’t think you’ll ever make that kind of slip though. You haven’t a negative bone in your body. Even when you are giving somebody bloody hell, you are sweet as little Sophie or Rev. Trontby. Thanks for the praise of my poems. Whenever you don’t comment, I know that was a crappy one.
{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{Terry}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}} ryc:I like the rhythm of that last line, yes grammatically you are correct but it just feels better to me the way it is. Does that make any sense?…I tend to write by feel. Been working on one of my computers to get it up and running again so my reading has been sporadic over the last few days. Hopefully I can improve that with a weekend off.(First full weekend in 2 months)
Truth is not truth if it changes daily. How can people live under these conditions. Wrong today, right tomorrow??? I am so confused by the way ones ‘believe’ truth to be. Like Ricky on the Lucy Show would say years ago, I wish someone would ‘splain’!! how they arrive logically at this point??
I’m no good at blogging. I used to leave my junk open, but now days can’t seem to leave anything open to public review for more than a day or so. At least you have something worth saying. Maybe someday you will make it to the states. It’s a big country!
RYN: It does seem like lots of people are having a hard time at it recently, doesn’t it? I was part of the club until recently. It’s all about perspective – and sometimes it’s just about meeting commitments – that gets you through the day. I’m happy that I provide a little chuckle to you. Thanks for stopping by!
I am glad you are back on this site. I enjoy learning about your life, but I am sorry your health limits you. I would be happy for you to visit me in America, too…I am about an hour and a half outside Chicago. Your tribute to Becca is wonderful. She is quite a remarkable woman, as remarkable in person as in her blog. Your blog is just fine as it is.
Enjoyed stopping by again and thanks for commenting on my site. I’m usually pretty boring so glad you liked my post.
Ah, Terry, it is five in the morning here and reading your blog makes drinking that first cup of coffee unimportant until I write this. I would like you to stay here if you come to America as I am in the middle (literally) of America and half-way down the state. I still dream of coming to see you and together we can put our injured selves down in a pub somewhere near and discuss the problems of the world.
Lists….I made lists in my head and they never all came to pass. Now I let my days flow and without making plans I do whatever my body and mind allows. For the remaining days of my life are too precious to be mangled by plans.
Oragami is one of the things I have all the equipment for and have not started. The other is calligraphy and this is the one I will start with for as my fingers become less mobile that would be impossible. Oragami fascinates me. My FIL told me once that his mother could make a bird as tiny as his little finger by using origami. He made things for me as well. When he was a boy, doing such things were a major entertainment for there was no tv, radio nor electric lights.
When you think about your lists, it might soothe you if you think of the ones that came to nothing as an exercise in imagination, that important ingredient that makes authors great.
So Good Morning, dear friend! I hope your day is going well.
Not everyone has the time to constantly visit all of you who subscribe to their blogs. So you need to stop and think about the fact that other people have lives too, and they aren’t going to stop and devote their every second awake to cater to your ego. If I were you, I would apologize to those whom you have wronged by posting the message you did. That would be a mature thing to do. I wish you the best of intentions, and hope that everything goes well. Blessed Be!
The things on my list of things to do or have come true haven’t happened in so many years it’s pathetic. I doubt anything I dreamed of will ever come to pass.
This is a busy time for a lot of people, and many I enjoyed comments from don’t stop by either. It makes me sad but there’s not much I can do about it.
lord if my memory were as “feeble” as urs i would be a happy woman in all of my knowledge & i hafta scroll many times to read ur words in several different places * l */? )))))))))))))) magi
I’ve never tried making a list like that, and I’m nearly 53. Sigh. All the things that might not have happened in my life and now I don’t even know about them! Suckers!! Seriously, it might be fun to publish that list with your own commentary…
And I don’t see any reason for you not to come to America besides lack of money… and money is a strange thing and it will probably come to you for this trip…
But I’m in Canada, so I don’t expect to see you, unless you make it way over to the West Coast and to Vancouver.
I think you ought to go on tour, actually! A poetry tour – Wouldn’t that be marvelous! Oh, I shall hope and wish and pray on that one for you.
xo
Ah … you should not lose faith. Though you don’t hear much from many does not mean things are lost. And as for blog visiting. Things happen that are sometimes beyond one’s control and one doesn’t have time to go make rounds.
Thankfully for me things at work have cooled down quite a bit … so I’ll be coming by more often.
Terry, post the list! Maybe your readers could help think of ways to make those things happen.
Thanks for your comment. You’ve had quite a glimpse at life yourself!
I enjoy reading writers from other parts of the world! Naff and all!
lists for what? shopping list, I usually leave on the kitchen table anyway,so I stopped, lists of things to do.? don’t want to be reminded, list of aims in life? don’t need a list for that, holiday list? too far off, anyhow don’t know if I really want a holiday, since living in Italy 25 years I feel I’m on an extended holiday every day of the year. No , no list for me. that’s the truth, well that could be interesting, what’s the truth? The truth of what? here I go again….RITA
Thanks for your Xangies nominations! I’ll add the three top designations to my list.
I still have your votes recorded. You can see the complete list of recommendations and nominations here – 2005 Xangies
Clowne–I will always be here. Your blog is important to me. You are a great writer-your abilities are not limited, as your mind is so freeing and full. Loved your dedication to Becca.
Hugs
I too would love to see the list.
Also – thanks for the nom. When I woke up and booted up the old ‘puter, I saw it – and it really made my day!
Also, also – If you do come to the US, and make it to NJ (NooJoiseeeeee? I cannot imagine why you’d wanna come heeya! – haha!) do drop by for a fine meal here! (I’m actually half way between Philly and NYC so either are – y’know – doable, too. Especially as Spamalot is opening on Broadway soon.
And keep posting. I’d nominating you – but it’s already been done! Ah.
I’d nominating??? Sheeesh – you wouldn’t know that my degree is in English! (Yikes!)
What I meant to say is that I WOULD HAVE NOMINATED YOU…
Glad I got that out of the way.
Like all of us, the time it takes to get back with EVERYONE, it can be overwhelming.
I don’t always hear from you but when I do, I smile. Your comments always come through as genuine. And I’d rather get infrequent genuine than daily ingenuine any day!
lisa
hello Lord Pineapple. It’s been a while since I’ve commented on your site… I’ve been rather depressed and self contained… I’ve read much of the stuff on your site, but not commented… As always, I love to read about your life.
My son loves origami. He is forever making new things and I have no clue how he learned it.
Thank you for your comment. We don’t speak Spanish in the Philippines though. Though some words are the same.
{{{{{{{{{{{{{{Terry}}}}}}}}}} Thank you very much
I love your blogs here! I love the day to day shmutz that goes through all our brains. It may seem uniteresting to some, to me it’s comforting that everyone everywhere basically does the same mundane things.
I too have noticed a large drop off in visitations on my site. It may just be a busy time of year for most of us, but I try to stop in at everyones site about once a week. I just don’t always make it ….but I try.
Yes yes! Come to America! It is not the greatest country on earth by any means, but I am proud of my country (regardless of politics) and I think you would enjoy the diversity here.
While the rest of the world mostly gets to interact with the rich bougois Americans that can afford travel outside the U.S., really the rest of us are just average people like the rest of the world, struggling to get by. Come see us!
I am up for another game of chess…
IM me if you have time this weekend Me’ lord
I’m sorry – with taking care of the baby, I can’t get around even my short sub list as often as I’d like anymore — I barely manage to get time to write poetry for my own site, but I try to get around when I do – or some time close thereto. I’m not always good at commenting or knowing what to say if I do drop by, but please know that it doesn’t mean I don’t care.