I remembered my Write Edit Publish bloghop Caged Fowl submit from 5 years in the past … into which the brand new theme may match with some apparent modifications – from closed to open … I want that closed one for an additional immediate subsequent week … however …
What to submit … so many rabbit holes I might be happening … graphic books, submarine canyons, Western Australian indigenous artwork, Siberian oil area exploration, lighthouses, nettles, blue stockings … and so it goes … and sure, after all, a fish banana recipe …
… then this week I remembered one thing I may write about for a immediate and a memoir observe on an open door incident that occurred within the mid Seventies … ‘killing three ‘birds’ directly’ …
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| A fairly too posh dormer window mine was undoubtedly plainer |
… this in all probability occurred within the extremely popular summer time of 1976 after I lived in Arundel Gardens –which I wrote about in 2020, hyperlink under – when my sitting room balcony doorways would have been large open onto the tiny balcony of my card-house flat – up 5 storeys …
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| I lived on the prime – the place these three bed room home windows seem – the balcony is on the south dealing with aspect |
All of a sudden on the doorways there appeared a person – unusual however true – 5 flooring up – the place from, and why … and what do I do … fortunately he was clearly not ‘a thug’ … however getting away from a drug bust in one of many homes additional down the road – and had managed ‘to flee’ alongside the roof tops and balconies – thus avoiding the police.
I had no concept what to do – name the police, let him out, ship him additional alongside at 5 storeys up … so for some time we talked – I can’t for the lifetime of me bear in mind what about … I used to be bemused!
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| Graphic story about Giorgina Anzulata from the ebook by Penelope Bagieu – extra to observe quickly (see hyperlink under) |
Anyway in the long run after a while I let him downstairs … presumably by then he may evade the police … and I by no means noticed him once more – nor did I’ve one other interloper excessive up within the skies above Notting Hill …
Right here endeth this submit … to resolve considered one of my issues – one other straightforward one after my fables … which yesterday claimed one other thought course of – when somebody produced a dictionary of proverbs … and questioned in regards to the time period ‘Belling the Cat‘ – attributed as a fable to Aesop – however set underneath Mediaeval attributions outdoors the Aesopic canon.
I would by no means heard of it … but Gustave Doré created an illustration (1868), as too Peter Bruegel in his work of Netherlandish Proverbs (1559).
My sortie into Could … gosh I waffle on – issues would possibly come straight someday quickly – if I am fortunate and all being effectively ………
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| Congo submarine canyon, west Africa |
Welcome month of Could and within the northern hemisphere some sunnier, hotter climate – effectively for us within the UK at the very least … I hoped!
Penelope Bagieu – illustrator and comedian designer … see Wiki …
My earlier submit on Portobello and Ladbroke Gardens property in west London …
Caged Fowl – Write Edit Publish submit …
Hilary Melton-Butcher
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