Building Preparing Gearing up to Christmas

Anticipation - foresight - expectation
Planning - organising - finalizing
Shopping - browsing - buying
Bustling - buzzing - teeming
Deciding - Selecting - Ordering 
Preparing - arranging - finalizing
Decorating - adorning - embleshing
Wrapping - gluing - tying

Reflecting - reflection - reflect 

Arriving - arrivals - arrive
Excited - aroused - agog
Begining - start - commence 






A Lighthouse

A lighthouse sat upon a cliff
converted now a "B & B"
sit and take your breakfast perched
where a beacon lit
shone across the sea

what need a lighthouse on a day like this 
with distant views across the bay
this guardian over a dangerous coast
where ships aground
sank in the bay

A fortress sat a witness to
storms where many sailors died
whilst families waiting said a prayer
to a guiding light 
and harbour, safe inside

Signals warning mariners away
its light a shinning beam of hope
Captains knew to heed it's warning
the massive waves 
gave all no hope

Enjoy the luxury provided there
safe from storms, tucked warm inside
imagine the desperate battles fought
on jagged rocks
'gainst winds and tide

...and raise your glasses
to those who died




(haiku)

Adults are just large
kids with half an idea 
on how to do stuff 

Priceless

The Amazon the man who just delivered us 3 toasted sandwich makers works for, 
is a company that was worth over $1.1 trillion in 2022
The Amazon rainforest is the lungs of our world and so its value is priceless.

The Amazon the man works for is a company second only in size to "Apple" leaving Google and Microsoft way behind.
The Amazon rainforest covers 6.7 million square kilometres and spans 8 countries and it's size to us is key and so is priceless 

The Amazon the man works for owns many well-known subsiduaries offering many different services including "Audible", "Amazon Web Servers, and "Ring" Doorbells
The services the Amazon rainforest offers are not just food, water, resources and medicines, but it stabilises our climate so it's value is priceless.

The Amazon the man works for has become the world's largest economic and cultural icon and has changed the world of retail - forever!
The Amazon rainforests store between 150-200 billion tons of carbon, if we reduce it's size further our climate will suffer, therefore it is priceless.

In 2012 the Amazon the man works for acquired "Kiva Systems", 
ar robotics company and mover 200,000 robots now find their homes working in the vast Amazon warehouse network.
The Amazon rainforest is home for over 3 million different species and over 2,500 tree species. That is one third of all tropical trees that exist on earth! It's value is priceless 

The Amazon the man works for has a "paid-for" subscription service with millions of subscribers and it offers many benefits including access to Amazons streaming service and next-day delivery of their products 
The Amazon rainforest is free to useo and is the worlds biggest carbon sink, which makes it priceless 

The Amazon the man works for, latest statistics show, will become the number one company in the world before too long. 
When humans cut down trees from the Amazon rainforest, the biomass releases its stored carbon back into the atmosphere as COwhere it has a warming effect. Us not cutting down the trees, would be priceless 

In 2022, the Amazon the man works for had grown to have over 310 million active users.
We have lost almost 20 Percent of the Amazon rainforest since the 1970's yet we know its value to us is priceless

...the Amazon the man works for had a charitable arm called "AmazonSmile". This was closed down early in 2023, Amazon said to focus their giving in other directions which were estimated at more than £100 million in 2021

The Amazon the man works for co-founded "The Climate Pledge" in 2019 into which they gave $B2.0 and made a commitment to achieve net-zero carbon by 2040. 

The Amazon the man works for, as part of that pledge, also announced a partnership with "Rivian", an American electric vehicle manufacturer to bring 100,000 electric delivery vehicles on stream by 2030

The Amazon the man works for says it will eliminate millions of metric tons of carbon per year in so doing

The Amazon the man works for is a company we trust and so maybe that's the reason Amazons revenue for the twelve months ending September 2023 being over half a trillion dollars! That is more than a 10% increase year-on-year. 

The man who works for Amazon who delivered our 3 toasted sandwich makers in one of the companies electric vans is just one man out of a total worldwide workforce of an estimated 1,500,000+ people.

Is the man who works for Amazon to blame for Amazons huge carbon foot-print? - No! He is just earning a living. Giving us what we want! Giving us what we want, when we want it! Because we want it now!

We are all to blame and we all need to start loving the Amazon rainforest as much as we love, the Amazon the man works for 

...and maybe we need to be thinking about our planet a little bit more



The Weather

Weather really didn't know what to do
he had thought about snow but he hadn't the heart
and to close all the schools just didn't seem right
for chaos occurs when it snows over night!

What about wet snow, weather went on
that's something a little bit different 
with wet snow I can make it a little more warm
and there's less pandemonium than a full-on snow storm!

Ah, but wait - the weather paused
there'll be no snow for snowball fights
nor frozen fingers and dripping noses
they'll miss out on all the wintery thrills
like sledging down those wintery hills!

I've got to do something the weather went on
I have to get rid of this burden I'm carrying 
It's really difficult carrying all this rain
it's backbreaking work - but I shouldn't complain 

But now in a fluster, the weather got cross
he stomped up and down going off in a strop
he really wasn't sure what weather to apply
which made him so angry he felt a tear in his eye!

So he marched to his cupboard where the weather was kept
and flung open the cupboard doors in a huff
he emptied the cupboard and rummage around
then he let mankind have, everything he found!

So...
it rained whilst the sun shone
the clouds were black as night
there were blue skies in places
lightening flashed down from a height
a rainbow appeared high in the sky
so at least the world looked pretty 
as it brightened some of the darkest clouds
above the streets of the city 
The wind with great force blew the snow around
whilst adding some rain to the mix
the warm sun shone and dried up the ground
quite a problem for mankind to fix!

Everything happened all in one day - the moral I guess must be said:
Don't anger the weather and make him cross
for you won't know 
what weather 
you'll be fed!











For You and For Me

we bought a house
for you
and for me
for us - to be

a house of bricks
glass, wood 
as our base
to be - our place

we worked so hard
for us
to acquire
retain -  not tire

we made a home
with love
and with care
for us - to share

our castle, safe
to have
children in
new life - begin

the children grew
up, left
empty place
a happy - space

to call our own
now two
the dog, three
happy - to be

our little house
for you
and for me
for us - to be