DEC 14, around and about: Port Sunlight, UK

a) Review of material posted on December 14 in previous years ...

2020: Toronto oases, upbeat art (photo)  
2021: funny bones, alignment (poem)

2022: classic palindrome, Go hang a salami. (illustrated poem) 
2023: fabric art, abstract (illustrated poem)

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b) Today's Offering (Dec 14, 2024): 

Port Sunlight is the model industrial village founded by 'Soap King' William Hesketh Lever (subsequently Viscount Leverhulme) in 1888. The village was built to house Lever's 'Sunlight Soap' factory workers, but today is home to a fascinating art gallery/museum, unique Tudor revival architecture, and an active community. Between 1899 and 1914, 800 houses were built to house a population of 3,500. The houses were built in blocks, each designed by a different architect, influenced by William Morris and the Arts and Crafts movement. Each block was surrounded by green space, and each family was provided with an allotment for growing their own food.

Port Sunlight Museum, (web-photo)

Lady Lever Art Gallery (web-photo)

sculpture at the Gallery

Antinous (lover of Emperor Hadrian),
circa 138,
restored as Ganymede, 1795

DEC 13, around and about: visit to the National Gallery, London, UK

 a) Review of material posted on December 13 in previous years ...

2020: anagrams, Republicans-in-Canada (wordplay maps) 
2021: poetry of healthcare, Canadian healthcare (illustrated poem)

2022: duplication, harum-scarum (poem)
2023: commercial product: male-turkey prosthesis (illustrated poem)

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b) Today's Offering (Dec 13, 2024): 

Trafalgar Square

Time Orders Old Age to Destroy Beauty,
Pompeo Battoni, 1746

Sun Rising Through Vapour, JMW Turner, 1807

The Execution of Maximilian, Edouard Manet, 1868

Eva Gonzales, Edouard Manet, 1870

Bathers at La Grenouillere, Claude Monet, 1869

The Skiff, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1875

Bathers at Asniere, Georges Seurat, 1884

Late Afternoon in Our Meadow, Camille Pissarro, 1887

Two Crabs, Vincent van Gogh, 1889

DEC 12, portraits of couples: mounted police

 a) Review of material posted on December 12 in previous years ...

2020: origin of bloggerel, poetry (didactic outpouring)  
2021: portraits of couples, Adam and Eve (photo folio)

2022: origin of bloggerel, photography (didactic outpouring) 
2023: portraits of couples, wood ducks (photo folio)

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b) Today's Offering (Dec 12, 2024):

You can view all of our folio-photos from the collection of 'Couples' portraits in a wider context on our full-service blog "Edifying Nonsense". Click HERE.

DEC 11, around and about: signs of Britain

 a) Review of material posted on December 11 in previous years ...

2020: American satire, government shutdown (poem)  
2021: neologism, personal, dyscoprotaxis (poem)

2022: dental feelings, gnashing, bruxism (illustrated poem) 
2023: American satire, archival (poem)

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b) Today's Offering (Dec 11, 2024):

  

watch out for grifters and ne'er-do-wells!

near the border of Wales, (town of Chester)
a bilingual Welsh-English defibrillator

a "rollaway bed", not a "cot";
that's what we should have asked for at the hotel desk
 for our 40 year-old daughter

or, as we might say, "Exit"

formal, unmatched sailorsocks

Readers might also enjoy returning to our series of sign-photos capture in our exprience in North America. You might want to follow along this road by clicking HERE! 

DEC 10, singable satire: "SATURDAY"

a) Review of material posted on December 10 in previous years ...

2020: holidays and celebrations, Chanukah (OEDILFian limericks)  
2021: birdlore, avian digestion (poem - 'brief saga')

2022: braincheck, hemianopsia (poem - 'brief saga')
2023: singable satire, Avitaminoses (parody lyrics)

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b) Today's Offering (Dec 10, 2024): 

The Beatles' "SATURDAY NIGHT", with Thanks to Elton John and a Nod to Oscar Wilde

ORIGINAL SONG#1:  "Yesterday", Beatles song written for the album Help!, Paul McCartney, 1965. 

ORIGINAL SONG#2: "Saturday Night's Alright (For Fighting)" Elton John, lyrics by Bernie Taupin, 1973. 

PARODY COMPOSED: Giorgio Coniglio, August 2015.

Note on the Parody lyrics: Among Oscar Wilde's most famous sayings, “Work is the curse of the drinking classes”

SATURDAY NIGHT as sung by the "Beatles" 

(to the Beatles' tune, "Yesterday")

Getting late

Wanna little action on my plate

Ma, your discipline just aggravates

I wanna rock; where are my mates?

Sis looks cute

Hair all greased up, in her dancing-boots

Seven bells, my old man’s really juiced,

That monkey; Ma don’t give a hoot.

Saturday

It’s alright for fightin’; play that game!

I’ll be oiled as a diesel train

A beer-filled belly; why refrain?

Set this dance alight

It’s alright; we’re gonna fight.

I’ll do something wrong,

Then be strong to set things right!

Stubbornly

I’ll use muscle to get what I need

Find some dolly hanging over me,

From shadows shout out, “She’s with me!”

Party night

It’s a night whose sounds I really like 

Like a switchblade and a motorbike

Wilde’s ‘drinking class’ – I’m just its tyke.

Saturday’s the night I like!

Mm mm, mm mm, mm mm-mm.

 

(to the Elton John tune)

Saturday, Saturday, Saturday

Saturday, Saturday, Saturday

Saturday, Saturday, Saturday night’s alright.

(back to the Beatles' tune)

Saturday's the night I like.

DEC 9, American satire: cabinet confirmation, another verse, or two

 a) Review of material posted on December 9 in previous years ...

2020: anagram swarm, very-stable-genius, lawsuits (wordplay)  
2021: invertebrates, California mussels (illustrated poem)

2022: inspired by O. Nash, ultimate tribute (illustrated poem) 
2023: toxic vignette, chelation (poem)

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b) Today's Offering (Dec 9, 2024): 

This verse is a followup to concerns expressed in the blogpost of November 22, and if you stay tuned, you will find another in the upcoming posting for December 16. 

Authors' Note: "Government Gangsters" is a 2023 book by Kash Patel about the perceived deep state in US politics; the same author produced a children's picture book entitled "The Plot Against the King" (the protagonist is King Donald).

Bill Barr (Republican) and Merrick Garland (Democrat) were Attorneys General in the 2017 and 2021 administrations respectively. 

We hope that you enjoyed these verses. You can find dozens more on this topic in 6 collections on our full-service blog 'Edifying Nonsense'. Click HERE to start! 

DEC 8, OEDILFian limericks: "every Adventuality 2"

 

a) Review of material posted on December 8 in previous years ...

2020: origin of 'bloggerel',  song-lyrics (didactic outpouring)  
2021: American satire, corruption (poem)

2022: doctors and practices, Doctors Without Borders 

(poem)
2023: at heart, Holter monitor (illustrated poem)

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DEC 7, palinku (poetic novelty): 45th prez, 7/7

a) Review of material posted on December 7 in previous years ...

2020: Ontario wildlife,  unusual sightings (photo-collage)  
2021: waterfowl, great auks (illustrated poem)

2022: urban concerns, break of day (illustrated poem) 
2023: birdlore, common grackle (live-action photo)

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b) Today's Offering (Dec 7, 2024):

 You can readily view all our verses of this type if you proceed with a single click to our more encyclopedic blog "Edifying Nonsense". Click HERE. (Or if you prefer, you can stay on this particular blogsite and look for the offerings for the 17th day of each month -- there are now more than 60 of these.)