regina queen

read mistresses by  elizabeth abbot  strangely trite history of the mistress from the often told royal mistress  to  the kept woman, jewish mistress of nazi , gangsters moll    and  the literacy mistress  in fact and fiction    rather uninspiring brief biographies of what were in the main selfish  woman  stuck with selfish men  hope there will be companion piece on fancy men and male lovers
the travellers day book   a tour of the world in 366 days  by fergus fleming    a long year of a read and  of mixed content    a year a page using sources from the medieval to the  TV programme  but in the main   boring  content from travel writers  and novelist  journeymen   barely hiding their disdain  of foreigners  none of the extracts long enough to tell a story  but short enough for judgements  and solitude
rather a long laborious read  and had forgottten most of the days by the end

the victors crown Greek and Roman Sport from Homer to Byzantium  by  david potter
interesting  history of early sports  and with good  new theories on minoan bull leaping    and with  2012  already here  a better than usual  section on the olympics   including not only the victors but their trainers  fans and promoters  leading to the mixing of greek and roman culture and early history of the games  avoiding the arena cliches  and giving new though to the myth  that the christian church ended the roman games
modern architecture a guide  since 1900   well illustrated history of architecture divided into   schools and  movements from classical and post classical modernist and post modern  including  the architecture of metropolis and the dictator  and showing how the patron works with the architect  many new designs fro cathedrals,  museums  skyscrapers and new multicities


mixed inspiration  and many loose lines     i had noted that there is a daily mail competition for   diamond jubilee poems  judged by sir andrew motion, pam ayres and  sir roy strong
love to send my England I love this republic  to sir and to judge  cannot expect  to win   if pam ayres is judge    for those who do not know  pam ayres started as unconscious  entertainer  of very simple  harmless verses  same is however true of sir And
my new currently fragementary  royal poem uses  the words " long diagonal, rectangle,elizabethan virgin, victorian virgin , silent architecture  severe vertical "  to describe  HM  who has been  so long on the throne almost an institution  and just a definition for stability  the Regina Queen
with new presidents in France  and Russia starting new terms
the idea of england having an elected president seemed odd after all our parliamentary politicians  are not worth rising to president and that leaves only a figurehead from the performing arts to fulfil the role of four year term head of state