Sunday, 17 August 2025

Two Paragraph Stories, Blogs, Jottings & Gags (8) by Alan Ewing

 

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 Two Paragraph Stories, Blogs, Jottings & Gags (8)
 by Alan Ewing

 

 


 

 

ANGELS TAKING FLIGHT

And I heard the angels sing
Never heard that before
They said that you returned
Back here to my door
 
I heard that they had taken wing
Neven seen that before
They broke out in chanting
Peaceful love for sure
 
They brought you home back here
They heard my longful prayers
Oh to be beside you in heaven
The release of all my cares
 
I shall never forget the night
When the angels descended for you
All was taken in their flight
I know all this to be true
 
God grant me a thousand angels
To sing my true love for you
For you are the one beside me
As angels do walk on too
 
 
 
INTERNET ENTERTAINER
Oh, to be an internet entertainer
I wish for something a lot saner
Like oh they just log off just now
As you have your inspirational wow
 
Maybe I should just go out to AI
Well I could always be a false guy
Get it to write all for me and more
Such an easy goal to go and score
 
I could always write my own memes
Not seen in the scheme of things
For it is easier just not to take pen
For they steal the writer's own den
 
For in this life we find imposters true
Just looking for fools like me and you
They really steal the writer's craft
As the fool they seek to play and act
 
So here I write my little book and look
See how much anguish and craft it took
Though AI may try to theft and steal
One thing for sure it can never be real


SAW YER NAME
Saw yer name on dare
Gave me such a stare
Didn't kow yer going owt
Made feel like I was nowt
 
Saw you at quarter past ten
That would be me in my den
Such a superstar in your way
Me and you back in the day
 
Loved yer at twenty past three
Yer nearly had me on my knee
Loved how you got past half four
Nearly knocking upon your door
 
Love you early in the morning
Oh I am way past dawning
Give it in and out to five to six
I really could do with a Twix
 
Love yer 'ere well I do and say
I'd take you ere again today
With a flake and a Mars Bar
I'd just take you as you are
 
 
DENTAL POSTPONEMENT
I was supposed to go to dentist
I copped out you know
I'd love to be her apprentice
All the teeth I'd sow
 
She is such a big driller
A real psycho-killer
Wants my wisdom tooth
Had that since youth
 
I will see her again for sure
I will knock on her door
Get her wisdom tooth wish
I will not get so much a kiss
 
I will see her in September
That date I must remember
Else my teeth will surely ache
This is a date I cannot break
 
For I love my dentist so and so
Only path that I can now go
She's the reason why I exist
She gives life's little twist



GAG ABOUT GAGS: You're only as good as the latest gag. If that's a lead balloon then so be it. We can't expect everything to fly!


FOOTBALL GAG: "I'm in love; I'm getting married." Said Barry. Peter responded "How so? There is no gerlfriend that I can see?" Barry was talking about his football club and how it is his beloved.


PIZZA GAG: 'I like to eat pizza with knife and fork, so as to keep my hands clean". Said Jed. "Oh Chopsticks then!" Cried out Maryanne.


BLONDIE GAG: Once had a love and it was a gas ... the bill came in and it was a pain in the ass


FACEBOOK GAG: "I'm collecting these gags for a book; It's called FaceGag"


GRANPA GAG: "So where's the golden oldie then?" Asked grandson Carl. "Propping himself up at the bar with his walking stick?" "No" Answered grand-daughter Clare, "He ruptured himself doing Trance on the dance floor and was carted off to A&E; the shame of it; in front of all my pals too!" she concluded. "D'oh!' responded Carl.


HEAT GAG: "Oo-ah" Cried Mabel. "It 's 27.9 C and a guy is in the opposite garden nearly naked. Me teacups are shakin!" Ethel replied "Wait till it gets to 35 C and then he will be naked. That'll get your saucers goin' too!

 

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Monday, 11 August 2025

Veronica Electronica, Madonna, a blog by Alan Ewing

 

 

 

 

  

 

Veronica Electronica, Madonna 
a blog by Alan Ewing
 
 

 
 
 
Madonna's 1998 'Ray Of Light' album was, for me, one of the best Electronica releases of all-time. Its companion follow-up, 'Veronica Electronica' with remixes from the album finally arrived in 2025, delayed from 1998. If you loved the original album then this will not be a disappointment in any way at all. Superb Trance before its time. The roots of Trance themselves. Madonna is at the height of her creative powers here. The origin album was mesmerising within itself. Here the songs are catapulted into a new artistic realm. The innovation and the artistic drive are evident in both works. They are both a work of genius. I was genuinely astonished to hear the companion album. I loved the original so much and this just blew my socks off. Probably the greatest woman to ever hit the heights of popular music in such a spiritual way.
 
Below are links to the playlists of both albums ... 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Alan Ewing 
 
 
 
 
 

Friday, 8 August 2025

Two Paragraph Stories, Blogs, Jottings & Gags (7) by Alan Ewing

 

 

 

 

 

 

Two Paragraph Stories, Blogs, Jottings & Gagg (7)

by Alan Ewing

excerpts from ebook 

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Life's Loop

Life can seem like a loop
Jumping through little hoop
Birth to death in an instant
You are not so permanent
 
Life was eternal when so young
Till on age you got so hung
Certainly turned your life around
As in maturity reflection you found
 
It seemed like it went on forever
Times shared when all together
Then life dealt a decisive blow
Loved ones gone to boldly go
 
For what is life without a spiritual side
Just some place to run and hide
Seeking here to find an answer
Playing the part of life's chance
 
All in all it comes down to God
The play is within the play
Life's little gerlfriend don't you know
She will show you the way to 
 
 
 
 
English Heatwave
 
 

Once again, it is an English heatwave
And I have lost my brain again
Oh so sunny give us a wave
I think that I'm going insane
 
Once again, it is an English heatwave
Valerie has sunglasses mirror
She's come out of her cave
She never likes to shiver
 
Ray has his handkerchief hat on
He's a milkman all gone stale
George, of course ever the fool
They kicked him out of school
 
How do they cope with madness
Only English know in class
They've all gone frigging mad
Themometer went a bit glad
 
One thing you can rely on in heat
Good ol' England on insanity street
If you are hot then just you see
They will offer you a cup of tea
 
 
 
 
Flemenco
 
 
I found this music called Flemenco
Spanish Dance
Sent my world into over-spin
Like finding Trance
 
I learned to love the culture
In English
Loved and adored the signoritas
With Spanish eyes
 
I danced around till way past midnight
In burning heat
Found that I loved all of this
On a Spanish street
 
I shouted "Ole" with all of my heart
I loved the sun
Completely opened myself
Spain has won
 
And so I'll dance the Flemenco
Until day done
Let myself go completely
Under the Spanish sun
 
 
 
Coffee Drinker
 
 
I was once a coffee drinker
Life's little thinker
Gave it up for a cuppa tea
Such a drinker
 
Lil ol' coffee drinker me
Now it's just tea
I used to get so addicted
Self- inflicted
 
Went to coffee anonymous
Such a fuss
Dentist said to try water
Big taught-er!
 
So I went off to a shrink
Cure for drink
Told me to get a life
Oh the strife
 
So I went back to coffee
With some tea
I guess that in the end
That is li' ol' me




Alexa
 
 
There was once a gerl named Alexa
Thing is you could never text her
Such a weather Lady, never says maybe
That's the gerl who is named Alexa
 
Asked her to dance, she said no chance
My abilities are contained within electra
I can tell you of a waltz, lots of smaltz
That is the gerl who is named Alexa
 
So what's the time, are you going to be mine?
She would always come back with a line
Try to get in her bed, reply left unsaid
Let's just say that it was oh so very fine 
 
Always brainy, always says maybe, in her way
She lives in the drawing room each and every day
In the kitchen, bedroom too, just keep her away
From The Study if you can but try and may
 
That gerl could dominate and take over your life
In time she could become your electronic wife
Start making you depend and lean upon her
She's electronic, you know, so why would she care!
 
 
 
  
THEORY OF EVERYTHING 

What was I born into?

Nearly 14 billion years brewing

Caught up in it maybe

It certainly has me stewing

I don't know what it is

Though I guess who started it

A complete experiment

Havoc at its core and lark

I know that God is the reason

To say else is treason

I will not question the reasons

As we discover the seasons

Oh I love my God and the life

Science tells us

How it all began

A big bang that was so rife

And so I work it out

Within my human mind

Such a micro universe

In this, God, we find

  



EDIT

There's nothing quite like an edit
Now who was it that said it?
Shift your words around each way
You'll never know what you say
Cue back to the preceding paragraph
Because it gave me such a laugh
It's all a case of, me, you, hearsay
We don't know what we said today
Come and give me an a new edit
There I must have gone and said it
My words twisted like all anew
I guess that I must have read it
So get me a bottle of brandy
I'll turn it into a jug of shandy
Did I really say that my dear?
Oh you edited; now I see clear!


WHITEBOARD (FACEBOOK)

Is Facebook my whiteboard?
Creative little muse
Toss and turn my thoughts
Which ones to choose
Work out my theories here
Such, oh, to tell
Though it never gets murky
Love, you know that too well
Is Facebook my note-book
Upon which creative ways dwell
Only I know the answer
Upon which I must dwell
We sure all need a whiteboard
For our theories to dwell
Seems like in Facebook
I have found it so well
 
 
 
SENSE OF HUMOUR 

One day I lost my sense of humour
I couldn't remember where I had put it
I thought that serious was just a rumour
Something you threw out in a bucket
 
The day my sense of humour took a walk
Had me in a state where I could not talk
Would I suddenly become the straight guy
No longer that knowing wink within my eye
 
How would people know me without a laugh
I'd get treated just like a cold, sharp draught
And so I searched top to bottom, all over house
Discovered sleeping spiders and a dead mouse
 
And there it was my sense of humour in place
Like my glasses, for I had left it on my face
I learned from this as surely you will see
For my sense of humour had played a gag on me
 
 


 
WISDOM GAG: As a door closes, another one slams in your face!
 
Gag: 'Two glasses of Chardonnay and I'm anybody's' Said Bert. 'After six you belong to the toilet bowl' remarked Veronica.
 

BEATLES GAG: If, as 'Lady Madonna' says, 'Tuesday afternoon is never ending', then no wonder 'Wednesday papers didn't come' ... on this hypothesis then as a Thursday child I do not exist to mend my stockings! Never mind 'has far to go' I'm not even here. Thank you Lennon/McCartney ... I am much enlightened now. Thursdays were abandoned because Tuesday afternoon would never end.


GOD GAG: How humour brightens our existence. I think that God put it there because He/She could not get over the joke of how Creation went wrong. All will be okay on the night, as Revelation tells us. Gee! I'm such a Bible-Basher ... You should see the knocked-out ones in The Study!


CHURCH of ENGLAND GAG: Don't say: 'Is this The Kingdom Of God?' Do say: "I loved the quiche you made last night!'
 

 
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Thursday, 26 June 2025

Two Paragraph Stories, Blogs, Jottings & Gags ebook by Alan Ewing (6) (Summer Special)

 

 

 

 

 

 Two Paragraph Stories, Blogs, Jottings & Gags ebook by Alan Ewing (6) (Summer Special)

 


 

 ODE TO BIRKENHEAD

 

You can always come to Birkenhead

Eat fried bread with bacon and egg

Take a ride on the number 72 bus

To Heswall with all of the pomp and fuss

 

Come on down to lil' ol' Birkenhead

We tend to say "Bir en' 'ead really

We talk in our own way when all is said

We'll take in Hamilton Square scenary

 

Come and fill your boots in Birkenhead

For those of you who are easily led

We'll take you down to Grange Precinct

Have a burger it'll be so succint

 

Get your arse down to Birkenhead

Music stores to get you out of bed

A library full of WW1 Wilfred Owen

Just so you know where yer goin'

 

So come join us here in "Bir en' 'ead"

We'll have such fun on a pub crawl

We'll get to see the rising dead

Hungover from night-before trawl

 

Hey come to see Birkenhead, Lady!

Used to be home of Paul O'Grady

Lovely Lily Savage you may just hold

As we walk down Corporation Road

 

 

 

UK HOT 


A MidSummers’ Day here

Thunderstorms on way dear

Getting so hot in your pants

Take them off privately by chance


It’s so dreadfully hot in here

Rain coming soon have no fear

Double down on my dance

It’ll be back with a sure chance


Gosh! I’m dancing in my kitched

Like the gerls on a night of bitchin’

Wine is flowing, don’t forget mate

You betta remember to re-hydrate


Can’t get comfortable in my bed

Sweat is pouring from my head

You only need to have a cup of tea

So much sweat there’s no need to pee


Oh! In England we are not used to this

We like fair weather though not like this

So let’s see now who is the keenest

To go and live on Planet Venus



Writer’s Perogative

 Musician I may be

Never free

Actor for lines

So fine

Puppets on string

Not a thing

Like dancers same

Someone's game

You see a writer

God's little fighter

Pulls the strings

With such things

As ideas on the wind

Ideology within

The writer is the power

Within rhyming hour

You see it's in the pen

To say here and then

Words are the way

Within a writer's play

 

 

2p Story



Valentine Surprise

Jimmy had it all worked out. His wife wouldn't be in till 6:30 pm. Julie was always a woman of routine with her work patterns. He had the table set with candles and wine. The bed was made. The electric blanket charged up. Barry White was on the record player. This would be a Valentine's Night to remember. One for the diary. he hooved up, cleaned and dusted so that Julie would be in a good mood with him when she got home.

 

When Julie arrived home her sister was with her. "Oh lovely!" Said her sister. "Table set and look at those chocolates". The door chimed its bell as more woman arrived. Jimmy had forgotten that it was Julie's annual works meeting and do. He went to bed with a lot of women's voices and laughter coming up through the ceiling. Jimmy hid his head under the pillow with great frustration.

 

 

 

GAG: 'I keep getting strange numbers on my phone" said Ethel. "You been responding to supermarket surveys again!" Groaned Mabel.



VALENTINE: Cue to Forlorn Street, where Dave Robbins is throwing a wobble because he was turned down for a date by Janet Wharton. He said he'd put forward a pound if she topped up the date kitty to £20 ... he got small change! 


GAG: "You're such a drama queen Gerald" said Carol. "You'd make a movie out of your little toe, with a sequel 'The Return Of The Little Toe"


NETFLIX GAG: 'Before you scroll to exit, go up one and "Get Help' you need it!' Laughed Edna. Bertie was not amused.

 

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Thursday, 12 June 2025

War And Peace by Leo Tolstoy: Reflections

 

 

 

 

 

War And Peace by Leo Tolstoy: Reflections

 



This work, as Tolstoy saw it, rather than a novel, is of great length. It requires studious attention as it unfolds. Prinicipally it follows the the fortunes of the aristocracy in 19th Century Russia at the time of The Napoleanonic Wars. More than that though, it describes the horrors of war and its consequences. The characters are shown on the battlefield while an overview of the military campaign is given alongside this. Therefore it demands from the reader various skills, firstly in tradition novel character form and then in analysis of military maneuvers.
 
A main theme within the book is the nature of war itself. What is it? Why does it happen and what drives it. Tolstoy puts forward that it is Deity which causes it. His argument is that war happens of its own accord within the governance of the known universe. He rejects the notion of great men who cause it and carry it out to great effect. For Tolstoy, war has a mind of its own unto which it spirals endlessly. It is hap-hazard and owes little to great tacticians rathet it is sheer chaos out of which spring rapid opportunities of advance for one side or the other. 
 
Tolstoy also asks why the people consent to it? Do they unconditionally give allegiance to the state they live in regardless of its political culture. We can ask if nationalism overides all other considerations such as state dissent. We can ask if certain hypnotic figures emerge who cause the people to converge around him/her. Many have argued that war is in human nature. Tolstoy dismisses the historians and their various attributes to Mankind. For him there can be no doubt that the major factor lies in a force that governs life.
 
Overall, the work is a challenge to take on and requires great patience and time from the reader. The characters and their fortunes, plus their search for the meaning of life, enthral as they harbour within this. The vivid descriptions of life in 19th Century Russia is an education within itself. Then the reader is challenged to think deeply about the nature of war, life itself even and the causes of it. It requires reading routine and discipline to keep with it. It is well worth the effort to discover the depths of this Russian Literary Classic.
 
  
Alan Ewing, Cert HE, BA (Hons), MSc 
 
 
 
 
Footnote:  The follow-up work "Anna Karenina"was considered by Tolstoy to be his first actual novel. In this book Tolstoy is simply writing a novel with characters. Aristocracy again in 19th Century Russia, although without the long passges of war scenes and general philosophy on a Deity which is difficult to identify. Essntially Tolstoy concentrates on charcter romance.
 
 
 
 
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