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Hello, Elle,
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers were a rock band.
He was in the Traveling Wilburys too, with Dylan, Orbison, etc.
He was fairly well known, in America, anyway.
The prison book is immaculate.
Well mannered lads in Staffordshire!
I got a book on the French Revolution, one on mountains, and a couple of bios, and a 2017 diary.
The female sprinters seem to get on very well with each other, I thought.

Good morning, Rusty!
The rain has stopped but it is decidedly chilly so far this morning!
How is it with you?
Now the "Wilburys" I have vaguely heard of.....
Something about George Harrison's saying "We'll bury...."?
I cannot recall much more than that!
Are you going to track your son's flight to Florida?
What time do they leave?
The girls will be expecting you to "behave" and "report in" whilst their parents are away!

Good morning, Elle!
Fine day here, too.
Aren't we the lucky ones!
I do not think you are missing much with the Wilburys!
Harrison allegedly did say something like that, but it is a not a band that I paid much heed to.
I think they hoped to get Del Shannon to join them, but he said no, I think.
And I just don't "get" poetry at all. (Just thought I'd throw that in!)
Yes, I have the page set up to track the flight.
This is the thing. FlightAware gives one time, Glasgow gives another.
11.15 say Glasgow, 11.25 say FlightAware.
The girls and me get on great, so there'll be no problems...hopefully!

Hi, Rusty!
The morning is improving as I type this...the sun is now out and the clouds disappearing from the sky......
I haven't been out yet.
We are having a lazy morning and going out about midday for a "hike".
I have already finished the Everyman crossword - some good clues, I thought.
All parsed!
How did poetry come into our conversation?!
I learned reams of Shakespeare when at school and also the odd poem.
The only one I can remember throughout now, though, is Sir Henry Newbolt's "A Torch Of Flame"/ Vitai Lampada
Why this particular one should stick in my mind, I have no idea - I can recite it word for word!
Also bits of Tennyson's "The Lady of Shalott" - a massively long poem that we had to study!
I rather like poetry that doesn't rhyme.
What is that called? Free verse poetry? something like that....
How do you track a plane?

This is an interlude in bread-making, sour dough and sun-dreied tomato (two different!). They are busy prooving for the second time.
I won first prize for my crochet blanket in a show yesterday. Haha, mine was the only entry!No doubt my granddaughter would like the rosette to pin onto her hobby horse, when I finish it!

Rusty, I know lots of people don't get poetry. Could I very respectfully suggest you Google "The Charge of the Light Brigade" and read it out loud?? You can hear the hoofbeats in the rhythm of the words.
Or how about-

"We had a kettle, we let it leak:
Our not repairing it made it worse.
We haven't had any tea for a week...
The bottom is out of the universe
(Kipling)

and does this not describe a skylark's song better than it has ever been done-
"He drops the silver chain of sound...
Like water dimples down a tide,
Where ripple ripple overcurls
And eddy into eddy whirls"
(Meredith)
(I've left out a little)

and, perhaps
"Enjoy today, he says, this minute, now;
Add me to your store of happy memories.
A goldcrest in the dust at evensong"

Hello, Rosalind!
Well done on your prize!
Must be an awful lot of work crocheting a blanket!
I think Kipling would be better sticking to making apple pies.
No, seriously, I just cannot visualise someone sitting down to write a poem.
I think it belongs in a bygone age.
But, that is only my thoughts on it.
I am sure many enjoy reading or writing poetry.

Hello, Elle!
Poetry did not enter the conversation.
I merely lobbed it in.
The only poem I know is,
"On yonder hill there stood a cow,
It's not there now,
It must have shifted."
The Tour of Britain starts in Glasgow (the Grand Depart) today.
On ITV4 at 1.00pm.
There are several websites which track plane flights.
I use FlightAware.
You can read the flight log of the speed, height, etc live.
Today's flight plan takes them further to the West than usual to miss the storms etc rolling up the East Coast.
Very boring, but I always do it, if any of the family are airborne.
I forgot to set "record" for the Eagles.
It is on during the week again.
And one I won't miss is "Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison".
Heard it is an excellent documentary.

Hi everyone,

I do Rusty - in French of course!
For some reason or other I do not get on with poetry that does not rhyme. To me, a poem, when read or spoken, must have a 'sin-song' and rhythm about it.
In fact, a lot of songs are poems that are put in music.
But as you say, this is only my thoughts on it.

BTW we leant lots of poems and tirades at college and I still remember quite a few of them.

rusty-

The stinking goat on younder hill
Chomps all day on chlorophyll

(I think this was written when chlorophyll ws supposed to help bad breath!)

It's called blank verse, usually, elle.

"He called me son, but only once
And ever after "Boy"! to keep me in my place.

( a man remembers meeting his father for the first time aged about 6)