"How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being"

Oscar Wilde

As virtuous men pass mildly away ( Read more... )

Cut grass lies frail:
Brief is the breath
Mown stalks exhale.
Long, long the death

It dies in the white hours
Of young-leafed June
With chestnut flowers,
With hedges snow-like strewn,

White lilac bowed,
Lost lanes of Queen Anne's Lace
And that high-builded cloud
Moving at summer's pace.

Philip Larkin

Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea ( Read more... )

Cream cracker noun, Brit: A dry, unsweetened biscuit, typically eaten with cheese or other savoury toppings.

Cream crackered- Rhyming slang for 'knackered'

Knacker noun 1 A person whose business is the disposal of dead or unwanted animals, especially those whose flesh is not fit for human consumption. 2vulgar slang, Brit: testicles

To knacker ( Read more... )

Here is Peter. Here is Jane.They like fun ( Read more... )