Oh, to be in England Now that April’s there, And whoever wakes in England Sees, some morning, unaware, That the lowest boughs and the brushwood sheaf Round the elm-tree bole are in tiny leaf, While the chaffinch sings on the orchard bough In England–now!! Robert Browning (1812-1889) . . . Tuesday 1st April 2014 […]
The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold; And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea, When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee. Lord George Gordon Byron (1788-1824) . . . Tuesday 4th March 2014 Chromasports & Trophies […]
The steam hissed. Some one cleared his throat. No one left and no one came On the bare platform. What I saw Was Adlestrop — only the name From “Adelstrop” by Edward Thomas (1878-1917) . . . Monday 24th February 2014 Calor Southern League k.o.:- 7.45pm Division 1 Central Beaconsfield SYCOB […]
“Weather” Whether the weather be fine, Or whether the weather be not, Whether the weather be cold, Or whether the weather be hot, We’ll weather the weather Whatever the weather, Whether we like it or not! Author: unknown . . . Tuesday 17th December 2013 FA Carlsberg Trophy k.o.:- 7.45pm 2nd Round Replay Forest Green […]
Now Winter Nights Enlarge by Thomas Campion Now winter nights enlarge This number of their hours; And clouds their storms discharge Upon the airy towers. Let now the chimneys blaze And cups o’erflow with wine, Let well-tuned words amaze With harmony divine. Now yellow waxen lights Shall wait on honey love While youthful revels, masques, […]
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. William Wordsworth . . . Monday 22nd April 2013 Chromasport & Trophies United Counties League k.o.:- 7.45pm […]
Thinking of Holland I see broad rivers slowly chuntering through endless lowlands, rows of implausibly airy poplars standing like tall plumes against the horizon; and sunk in the unbounded vastness of space homesteads and boweries dotted across the land, copses, villages, couchant towers, churches and elm-trees, bound in one great unity. There the sky hangs […]
L’amore fa passare il tempo, il tempo fa passare l’amore. — Anonimo (scheda) Monday 18th February 2013 Evo-Stik Southern League k.o.:- 7.45pm Premier Division Hitchin Town 0 Leamington […]
And both that morning equally lay In leaves no step had trodden black. Oh, I marked the first for another day! Yet knowing how way leads on to way I doubted if I should ever come back. (from ‘The Road Not Taken’ by Robert Frost) Monday 7th January 2013 Baker Joiner Midland Alliance k.o.:- […]
