I remembered my Write Edit Publish bloghop Caged Bird post from five years ago … into which the new theme could fit with some obvious changes – from closed to open … I need that closed one for another prompt next week … but …
What to post … so many rabbit holes I will be going down … graphic books, submarine canyons, Western Australian indigenous art, Siberian oil field exploration, lighthouses, nettles, blue stockings … and so it goes … and yes, of course, a fish banana recipe …
… then this week I remembered something I could write about for a prompt and a memoir note on an open door incident that happened in the mid 1970s … 'killing three 'birds' at once' …
A rather too posh dormer window mine was definitely plainer |
... this probably happened in the very hot summer of 1976 when I lived in Arundel Gardens –which I wrote about in 2020, link below – when my sitting room balcony doors would have been wide open onto the tiny balcony of my card-house flat – up five storeys …
I lived at the top - where those three bedroom windows appear - the balcony is on the south facing side |
I had no idea what to do – call the police, let him out, send him further along at five storeys up … so for a while we talked – I cannot for the life of me remember what about … I was bemused!
Graphic story about Giorgina Anzulata from the book by Penelope Bagieu - more to follow soon (see link below) |
Anyway in the end after some time I let him downstairs … presumably by then he could evade the police … and I never saw him again – nor did I have another interloper high up in the skies above Notting Hill …
Here endeth this post … to solve one of my problems – another easy one after my fables … which yesterday claimed another thought process – when someone produced a dictionary of proverbs … and wondered about the term 'Belling the Cat' – attributed as a fable to Aesop – but set under Mediaeval attributions outside the Aesopic canon.
'Belling the Cat' - painting by Breugel (1559) |
I'd never heard of it … yet Gustave DorĂ© created an illustration (1868), as too Peter Bruegel in his paintings of Netherlandish Proverbs (1559).
My sortie into May … gosh I waffle on – things might come straight sometime soon – if I'm lucky and all being well …......
Congo submarine canyon, west Africa |
Welcome month of May and in the northern hemisphere some sunnier, warmer weather – well for us in the UK at least … I hoped!
Penelope Bagieu - illustrator and comic designer ... see Wiki ...
My earlier post on Portobello and Ladbroke Gardens estate in west London ...
Caged Bird - Write Edit Publish post ...
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