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Hello, Elle!
Pine Cone was great!
The waitresses are all sun tanned.
They often go to work in the Chrismas tree plantation when not so busy!
So, fresh air, exercise, and sunshine, and getting paid for it, not too bad!
Yes, have a wee look at "my" poem!
Lots on YouTube about it.
When I get more time I am going to explore more of his stuff!
Not seen tennis today, I have been out and about, mostly.
But hope to see a bit of the football later.

Fire and Ice

Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I've tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if I had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice

Robert Frost

Lodged

The rain to the wind said
"You push and I'll pelt".
They so smote the garden bed
That the flowers actually knelt,
And lay lodged- but not dead.
I know how the flowers felt

Robert Frost

Both these come from my commonplace book, this one entered 1972, the other 1986

Hi, Rusty!
I have been playing catch up with the tennis results.
It sounds as though I missed some very good matches this afternoon.
Angie Kerber beat Simona Halep.....
Bertens beat Sabalenka...…
Karolina Pliskova is also through.
Rather surprisingly (to me) in the Men's Singles, Thomas Fabbiano beat Gilles Simon.
And it is a pity that Kyle Edmund has to play his fellow Brit, Dan Evans.
I hope you have more success keeping up with the football!
I have "found" Robert Frost's poem...and will read it shortly!
I shall take a look on Google , too and see what else I can find about it.......
I hope you have had a good chat with your son?




Hello, Chris!
I am sorry to hear that your sister is ill, and hope that you will have better news of her soon.
Yes, it is a long journey for you down to Devon.
Does she still live near to where you were brought up?



Interesting poems, Ros!
I first came across Robert Frost in series of Quiz questions.
I cannot now remember the title of the relevant poem, though!

Hi elle
Yes, she (and her family) have never moved from Barnstaple, where I was born and bred (though, to be pedantic, she was born and spent a year or two, in Maidstone!).

Possibly slightly better news - they are suggesting that she might be allowed home next week.

Good evening, Elle!
My son has gone home.
I did not see any tennis today.
The best place to see the poem is on YouTube, rather than Google.
I have watched a bit of the football but will see more of it later.
Just awaiting Miss O who texted asking if I would like an ice cream!
What a thoughtful girl!

Hi, Rusty!
I'm almost ashamed to admit that I had not previously come across this particular poem by Robert Frost......although I had encountered the author before.......as everywhere I look for information, seems to think the poem very widely known!
Strangely enough, the concept of two paths from which to choose comes up in Jeffrey Archer's latest book, "Heads You Win", which I have just lately finished reading.
The main character in the book has a choice of which crate to choose to hide away in, when escaping from Russia....
One crate is going to Great Britain ......the other to America.
The tale is told as that of two parallel lives developing .....thirty years spent in both Britain and America......advancing in parallel comparative steps......
It is a riveting book; the tale skilfully told, as usual. by Jeffrey Archer.
I shall say no more in case I spoil the "plot"...... but I would recommend reading it!
I hope you enjoy your ice cream - what a lovely granddaughter!

Hello, Elle!
My ice cream was delicious!
Why should you feel ashamed of not knowing something?
We all start out with a blank canvas and add to it as we journey through life.
I had never heard of Frost or his "misunderstood" poem until a couple of days ago.
Did you understand it?
I started with the "yellow wood" and I think it was the colour of the wood in Autumn?
Over all, I think I liked the poem, and I have not said that about any other poem.
There are several videos of folk analysing the poem, but I swerved by them!
England are doing away fine at the football!

Hi, Rusty!
I guess that most probably I have not understood the poem correctly?
I took it perhaps too much at face value.... a person being given a choice of which route to travel...read 'life decision' for this ?.....and, although choosing the one, regretfully thought often of the other?
Wondering whether that choice would have turned out better?
I may well have this wrong?
And I could well have been influenced by the plot of Jeffrey Archer's new book!
Btw. A question on Fifteen to One...
Who wrote "The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid"?
Answer: Bill Bryson!
Another book to investigate!

Hello, Elle!
I am not sure if I understood it all, too.
At the end we don't know if he was pleased with his choice of road or not.
But that it made "all the difference".
Time for me to leave it behind, I think.
I read "Thunderbolt", or, a lot of it.
There was something in it, which I can't remember, which I thought disgusting, which made me dislike it.
"One Summer:1927" is a good read.