Don't you just hate those blogs that start up for a month or so and then filter out? You know - the ones where there are only five posts and then nothing. All it does is clog up the online world with un-needed stuff. In the time while Everyday Eavesdropper has been 'away' a family relation has uploaded 75 or so posts - and interesting they are too! In fact, the Americanisation of Emily even carries a lovely record of a visit to Cambridge and London in the summer to celebrate a birthday. Everyday Eavesdropper can be spotted trying to eavesdrop in Westminster and in a London taxi.
So many lovely conversations ...
Okay, so Everyday Eavesdropper got distracted by work. Not much of an excuse I know, but new ventures into self-employed-dom carried EE to South Africa, the Netherlands, Edinburgh and Luton.
And combining two of those places in one thought; it was in Edinburgh when Everyday Easedropper was sitting in The Pleasance Courtyard waiting for the play to start when an eccentric man in spectacles handed a little leaflet to EE called 'Elevenses' and said
"Would you like one of these?"
"...erm, yes ..."
"Are you sure?"
"Yes, thank you very much."
It was the great John Hegley, with one of the best pieces of promotional print I've ever seen (whoops - going in to work mode). The leaflet itself was actually a tiny book of poetry, advertising his eleven o'clock show.
Here's one from the leaflet:
Zanzibar (in part)
Here we are alfresco
underneath the mango
nearer to the Congo
than we are to Tesco,
playing with the combo
I am on my bongo
but I am no Ringo
Starr
Interesting that both John Hegley and Lily Allen (another great blogger of course) rhymed Tesco and Al Fresco. Now surely, there is a thesis to be written about that!
There was a little old lady who was walking down the road
She was struggling with bags from Tesco
There were people from the city having lunch in the park
I believe that it's called al fresco
By the way, John Hegley is from Luton (meanwhile Lily Allen's father is the Sheriff of Nottingham ...)
So, the point I was trying to make is about it being a busy year. Sorry. Rubbish isn't it? EE did collect a few conversations along the way though, so normal service will be resumed soon!
