Wednesday, December 07, 2011

What price a butt of sack?

When Britain's first female, gay poet laureate took office in 2009 she pledged, "In accepting this Laureateship, I hope to contribute to people's understanding of what poetry can do and where it can be found."
So why can I find only one poem by Carol Ann Duffy online?

Sunday, December 04, 2011

There's no effin' white cabbage at Tesco

The decline in basic standards of literacy and numeracy has been much mourned by employers. This morning I went to my local Tesco to buy the missing ingredient for my Minestrone. "Do you have any hard white cabbage?" I enquired of the young man who was stacking shelves nearby. "No", he muttered, "but we do have savoury cabbage." "Savoury cabbage?" I speculated, "I'll just reduce the seasoning and it ought to do in soup."
Arriving at the produce, this fine young man triumphantly directed me to the Savoy cabbage. "But there is no R in Savoy", I almost began to say, then thought better of it. There is no "R" in "Savoy" and there is no "F" in "white cabbage" at Tesco. I went to Sainsburys instead.