National Poetry Day

William Wordsworth's Poem "I wandered lonely as a cloud..." will always be one of my favourite poems...

Penny Davies Image shot on Lubitel 120mm camera using Agfa film. 

I wandered lonely as a cloud

That floats on high o'er vales and hills,

When all at once I saw a crowd,

A host, of golden daffodils;

Beside the lake, beneath the trees,

Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

Continuous as the stars that shine

And twinkle on the milky way,

They stretched in never-ending line

Along the margin of a bay:

Ten thousand saw I at a glance,

Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.

The waves beside them danced; but they

Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:

A poet could not but be gay,

In such a jocund company:

I gazed—and gazed—but little thought

What wealth the show to me had brought:

For oft, when on my couch I lie

In vacant or in pensive mood,

They flash upon that inward eye

Which is the bliss of solitude;

And then my heart with pleasure fills,

And dances with the daffodils.

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The Field Project that didn't happen ....

The Escape by David Baldacci

The First and Second in the John Puller Series are ZERO DAY and THE FORGOTTEN 

I've just finished reading The Escape and it didn't disappoint. I was a little worried that I felt it was a slow starter; I began to wonder if I was going to be let down by the third in the series of the John Puller Investigations. But a sigh of relief when about 50 pages in, I began to be drawn into the story and from then I was absorbed and entertained.

If you haven't yet read any of the John Puller Thriller Series, they are well worth picking up. The last in the series sees the older brother Robert, the most wanted man in America, escape from military prison, and his brother John leading the investigation into his re-capture.

Its quite a fast paced read, plenty of thrills, corruption, secret intelligence, a bit of flirting... and of course a dilemma for John, where does his loyalty lie, with his brother, or with his duty to his country.