English Classic Story Time

10/10/2022

Eulogy
I guess ya'll call it fate
He was curious as a cat
We we both never late
Before the drinking, smoking and experimenting

We would stick along the road
I was a pen, you were a sword
We were a flawless accord
Before the drinking, smoking and experimenting

I was always good in class
You were the tough of us
Never swept one under the bus
Before the drinking, smoking and experimenting

The taste of wild mushroom
Swept delicacy as a broom
Laughter showered the room
Before the drinking, smoking and experimenting

Then I went off to college
You opened a dark page
You went under siege
Before the drinking, smoking and experimenting

The economy got swollen
You were stormed trodden
Those words never spoken
The eve of drinking, smoking and experimenting

First took a few sips
To get you on tips
Ma*****na on your lips
Got into drinking, smoking and experimenting

Your girl eloped
When I got engaged
Yeah, I know you heard
You started drinking, smoking and experimenting

Your girl was strong head
Your life then turned sad
Of the traumas I heard
More drinking, smoking and experimenting

Nights out on tips
To life's unleash of whips
You took more sips
Dogged to more drinking, smoking and experimenting

I heard I was shaken
That you were broken
Your health they'd stolen
In the drinking, smoking and experimenting

I heard you lived in rage
A drunk life on the edge
Drugs had you in a cage
In the drinking, smoking and experimenting

Heard you've faced doom
Saw it on the TV in my room
Drankard headlines would fume
In the drinking, smoking and experimenting

Rain pours as I aboard the bus
You have shuttered like glass
But I will pick whats left of us
To seal your drinking, smoking and experimenting

Grab my coat, hit the road
Coming to right tales of the old
I get to our old country road
To face your drinking, smoking and experimenting

To my surprise, we are both late
You're clean, at peace, in a casket
Well, I guess we could call it fate...

15/09/2022

We have pivoted and are now called Stories for Wellbeing https://www.facebook.com/Storiesforwellbeing. This is because we wanted to include all great books of literature and not just English. So please head over there and like the page to keep up with these incredible stories that have provided great resources for hundreds of years. See you there!

18/07/2022

Looking for 5 volunteers to beta test Stories for Wellbeing - an online membership platform based on bibliotherapy to help support your wellbeing though reading of literature and sharing of your story. All we ask in response is feedback and testimonials. If you would like to be part of this exiting project - please contact me at [email protected]

06/06/2022

Hey - doing a radio interview with Radio Solent 96.1 and 103.8 FM today at 3pm!

01/06/2022

In London this week? Head down to the V&A to see the original drawings of the delightful Peter Rabbit and friends

The V&A is a major resource for the study of Beatrix Potter, holding the world's largest collection of her drawings, manuscripts, correspondence and photographs

31/05/2022

Come and listen to Lucy Harrow reading Pride and Prejudice and read the book along side her. If you don't understand what is in the text - don't worry we have explanations and a dictionary. Come join the conversation.

“Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.”

― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

30/05/2022

"To My Mother"
BY EDGAR ALLAN POE
Because I feel that, in the Heavens above,
The angels, whispering to one another,
Can find, among their burning terms of love,
None so devotional as that of “Mother,”
Therefore by that dear name I long have called you—
You who are more than mother unto me,
And fill my heart of hearts, where Death installed you
In setting my Virginia's spirit free.
My mother—my own mother, who died early,
Was but the mother of myself; but you
Are mother to the one I loved so dearly,
And thus are dearer than the mother I knew
By that infinity with which my wife
Was dearer to my soul than its soul-life.

30/05/2022

- I think your 3rd graders need our books!

26/05/2022

"Alice opened the door and found that it led into a small passage, not much larger than a rat-hole: she knelt down and looked along the passage into the loveliest garden you ever saw. How she longed to get out of that dark hall, and wander about among those beds of bright flowers and those cool fountains, but she could not even get her head through the doorway; “and even if my head would go through,” thought poor Alice, “it would be of very little use without my shoulders. Oh, how I wish I could shut up like a telescope! I think I could, if I only knew how to begin.” For, you see, so many out-of-the-way things had happened lately, that Alice had begun to think that very few things indeed were really impossible."

Join us this evening for our Book Club where we will be talking about Alice in Wonderland. Contact me [email protected] to join.

19/05/2022

Coming soon....

18/05/2022

This is what reading is all about...