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Ducks love sonnets

30/11/2020

“And as imagination bodies forth
The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen
Turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing
A local habitation and a name.” - William Shakespeare
QUACK!

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Hard to use a pen with webbed feet

29/11/2020

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Jack Kerouac wrote “One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.”. Will ‘Quack’ do?!

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Take the lid off.

28/11/2020

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F Scott Fitzgerald said ‘All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath’: I’d like to try, but seem to have run into a problem......

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Just read a silly rhyme: Jack and Jill went up the hill, to fetch a pail of water. Jack fell down, and broke his crown, and Jill came tumbling after. Hmmm... perhaps that’s why they put water in bottles today?????

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Be careful...

26/11/2020

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Raymond Aron said ‘What passes for optimism is most often the effect of an intellectual error.’ Huh! I have matches; I have webbed feet; I have a beak: what could possibly go wrong......?

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Realist Duck.

25/11/2020

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James Branch Cabell said ‘The optimist proclaims we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.’ I’m a duck in a slow-cooker: so who’s the optimist and who’s the pessimist then???? (And try quacking that with a beak...)

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I heard it through the tomato vine

24/11/2020

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Robert Lindner said ‘Conformity, humility, acceptance – with these coins we pay our fares to paradise.’ That’s why I like orange tomatoes...are they last of the great individualists?????

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Christmas (cacti) come early.

23/11/2020

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SERIOUSLY????? They’re all mad.....! RD Laing once observed: ‘Insanity – a perfectly rational adjustment to the insane world.’ I’d say ‘hmmmmm’ – except I’m a duck and my bill wont’ let me...

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There are no rules in 2020

22/11/2020

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I’m told this is a Christmas Cactus. I’m told it should flower FOR Christmas. It’s November. A seriously confused Cactus, me thinks.....

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Going bobbing Waddles?

21/11/2020

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I’ve heard it said: an apple a day keeps the quack away! Thomas Carlyle said “Mirth resting on earnestness and sadness, as the rainbow on black tempest: only a right valiant hearth is capable of that.” So I’m resting in a bowl of apples.....or is it ‘on’??????

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