Joan Lennon's Blog
Monday, October 28, 2024
Saturday, October 12, 2024
Collective Noun
I've had the company of a seal or two on almost every walk I've taken here in Fair Isle, but there is one place, just near the South Lighthouse, where I can count on seeing 6, 7, 8 seals, all hanging out together. I stand and watch them, and they mess about in the waves and watch me.
Which raises the question - what is the collective noun for a bunch of seals? There are enough candidates to need a collective noun of their own: from different parts of the world we have a herd, a pod, a harem, a plump, a spring, a crash, a colony, a rookery...
But my lot? They're clearly and utterly a bob.
Saturday, October 05, 2024
Green Verse from Saraband
I'm very pleased to have a poem in this anthology from Saraband - appropriately in the 'Long Live the Weeds!' section of the Autumn season! Edited by Rosie Storey Hilton, Green Verse is available here.
Saturday, September 28, 2024
Saturday, September 21, 2024
Fair Isle Ambition
This week I'm back on Fair Isle and over on An Awfully Big Blog Adventure talking about ridiculous ambition.
Saturday, September 14, 2024
As the Students Return ...
In honour of all the students starting out a new academic year, join the lads here - and keep on dancing!
Saturday, September 07, 2024
Foggy
It's been foggy here in Edinburgh again, so here's a fog photo from Fair Isle last year and a fog poem by Carl Sandburg from The Poem Hunter.
The fog comeson little cat feet.
It sits looking