Waterloo Bridge...

[Aperitif]

Well, I have walked it, cycled it and know it well. Yesterday I had cause to use the Northern Line tube train and saw a poem in the advertising space.
AFTER THE LUNCH

On Waterloo Bridge where we said our goodbyes,
the weather conditions bring tears to my eyes.
I wipe them away with a black woolly glove
And try not to notice I've fallen in love

On Waterloo Bridge I am trying to think:
This is nothing. you're high on the charm and the drink.
But the juke-box inside me is playing a song
That says something different. And when was it wrong?

On Waterloo Bridge with the wind in my hair
I am tempted to skip. You're a fool. I don't care.
the head does its best but the heart is the boss-
I admit it before I am halfway across

Wendy Cope

So, I looked it up and found this.

Ain't life nice?

 

[Corvette chic]

I opened this thread with trepidation..... thinking it was an accident

what a fabulous poem/song and a great singer performing it

 

[Arch]

I heard a gret little poem the other day, recited by comedian Shappi Khorsandi, written by her father who was a satirist in Iran, and had to flee the country. It works in English and Pharsi, because of the rhymes... (in Pharsi, clocks go 'tick, tick', not 'tick tock', and birds don't go 'tweet', they go 'chick')

It went something like this:

The clock on the mantlepiece, tick, tick, tick.
The bird in the tree, chick, chick, chick.
I am a writer and you cannot stop me.
Pass me my biro, Bic, Bic, Bic....

 

[Blackandblue]

I heard a gret little poem the other day, recited by comedian Shappi Khorsandi, written by her father who was a satirist in Iran, and had to flee the country. It works in English and Pharsi, because of the rhymes... (in Pharsi, clocks go 'tick, tick', not 'tick tock', and birds don't go 'tweet', they go 'chick')

It went something like this:

The clock on the mantlepiece, tick, tick, tick.
The bird in the tree, chick, chick, chick.
I am a writer and you cannot stop me.
Pass me my biro, Bic, Bic, Bic....

That's great.

I think Shappi is a very funny person.

 

[Arch]

That's great.

I think Shappi is a very funny person.

She is - at first she irritated me a bit because she sounds like she's laughing at her own jokes, but I think that's just her having a very 'laughy' sort of voice, so she sounds happy all the time.

 

[Blackandblue]

She is - at first she irritated me a bit because she sounds like she's laughing at her own jokes, but I think that's just her having a very 'laughy' sort of voice, so she sounds happy all the time.

Quite so. I quite like that in a person. A bit like having a face that always seems to be smiling (but not in a rigor mortis sort of way).