This is just one man’s effort; one man’s ego.
It seems to be worthwhile.
John Lentell
16th December 1968
Month: July 2010
Friday’s Piece
“There lives more faith in honest doubt,
Believe me, than in half the creeds.”
(Alfred, Lord Tennyson, 1809 – 1892)
John Lentell
December 15th, 1968
Thursday’s Piece
Barnstaple (Barum), North Devon, England. My place of birth. Population in 1953 – 14,693. Early closing Wednesday. Market days Tuesday and Thursday. Lovely memories. Now zoned to be a satellite city with a population of 100,000!
Oh! My God! What is happening to poor old England?
John Lentell
December 14th, 1963
Wednesday’s Piece
“I sit on a man’s back choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means – except for getting off his back.”
(From What Then Must We Do by Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910)
John Lentell
December 13th, 1968
Tuesday’s Piece
That’s the way to start the day!
John Lentell
December 12th, 1968
Monday’s Piece
Unusual to walk in to your bank and find a piano and two barrels of refrigerated draught beer! “Christmas party tonight” says the girl – with an appropriate smile. “I hope the Manager is going says poor, uninvited me. “The bigger his draught, the bigger my overdraft!”.
John Lentell
December 11th, 1968
Sunday’s Piece
‘BASIC ENGLISH’
If “gh” stands for “p” as in” hiccough”, “ough” for “o” and in “dough”, “phth” for “t” as in “phthisis”, “eigh” for “a” as in “neighbour”, “tte” for “t” as in “gazette”, “eau” for “o” as in “beau”, the right way to spell “potato” must be: “ghoughphtheightteeau”.
John Lentell
December 10th, 1968
