“My hopes no more must change their name,
I long for a repose that ever is the same.”
(William Wordsworth, 1770 – 1850)
John Lentell
25 November 1971
Month: May 2020
Monday’s Piece
“Alex in Wonderland”
(Title of film appropriately showing in Salisbury at present time.)
John Lentell
24 November 1971
I presume my father was referring to Alex Douglas-Home who might have been at the forefront of discussions regarding the future of Rhodesia.
Sunday’s Piece
“And statesmen at her council met
Who knew the seasons when to take
Occassion by the hand, and make
The bounds of freedom wider yet.”
(Alfred Tennyson, 1809 – 1892)
John Lentell
22 November 1971
Thursday’s Piece
Tender-handed stroke a nettle,
And it stings you for your pains;
Grasp it like a man of mettle,
And it soft as silk remains.
(Aaron Hill, 1685 – 1750)
John Lentell
21 November 1971
Wednesday’s Piece
“Fate tried to conceal him by naming him Smith.”
(Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1841 – 1935)
John Lentell
20 November 1971
Tuesday’s Piece
Home Rule for Rhodesia?
John Lentell
19 November 1971
Monday’s Piece
“I must warn people that there is a challenge from communism on an unparalleled scale, which will be pursued quite relentlessly.”
(Alec Douglas-Home, 1962)
John Lentell
18 November 1971
Sunday’s Piece
“…and the papers had to explain that it rhymed with fume and not with foam”.
(Anthony Sampson on Alec Douglas-Home)
John Lentell
17 November 1971
Lentell Soup 