Moving on (7)

 3 5 12

            Though there's no worry, RB rings to say,

            We've not exchanged with 146 today

            Because, though all was ready at end

            Their solicitor closes each Wednesday pm.

            The move will go ahead but technically,

            The final exchange must wait until Friday.

            He phones again, he needs eight thousand pounds

            So that all the loose ends can be wound

            Up and hopes that we were quite aware

            And have the ready cash - with some to spare!

            Sky texted our new number for the phone

            But it will be two weeks before we own

            The new landline and in between will need

            A dongle for the laptops to proceed.

Brian Hick May 2012

©copyright Sally Hick 30.4.24

Moving On (6)

30 4 12

           Bob from Andrews, all excited, rings

          To fix a date for moving all our things.

          We suggest the fourteenth of May

          Hoping we can all stick to that day.

 1 5 12

          Calls go back and forth, as worryingly

          It seems the Masters have yet to agree

          The moving date; meanwhile our new home

          Is sitting empty, all sad and alone.

          We agree to meet at 146 to place

          Some curtains, and a pot plant so the space

          Does not look quite so empty even though

          We still don't have a date - god it's so slow!

 2 5 12

          While we are hanging curtains in the bay

          My mobile buzzed with messages to say

          That they've agreed a date - 15th of May!

          And Mrs M apologised if they

          Had held things up because La vie Francais

          Is even slower than Les sangs Anglais.

          So now we start to ring round and email

         To ensure the changes do not fail

          Nationwide and Sky, E.on and Tax

          Various pension offices and banks

          Southern Water, British Gas, LV

          WNO, National Theatre & RSC

          Then tomorrow, when this first list ends

          We'll get round to family & friends.

Brian Hick May 2012

©copyright Sally Hick 29.4.24

 1157

Ancient sages in

Stained glass may glower, but above

A Green Man grins down.

Historic Warwick;

Truth to tell the castle costs

Far, far, far too much.

Brian Hick May 2012

©copyright Sally Hick 26.4.24

 1156

Bertie of the 23rd

Lorks, Jeeves, you really do know everything.

There are times I hardly need to think at all.

You sort out all my little problems -

There's a snifter just when I need it to perk me up.

You keep me on the straight and narrow

So I don't let you down.

I mean, even when things get a bit iffy

Or I might just have done something - well, you know -

You just go right ahead and sort it all out;

As if there was nothing wrong in the first place.

You make life bearable - even when Aunt Agatha is here -

You know, Jeeves, there are times I feel like royalty.

I mean - I'm so dashed lucky.

I think we need to keep things just the way they are.

Yes - sir.

Brian Hick May 2012

©copyright Sally Hick 25.4.24

 1155

I'm not in Hastings

This year, but the sun tells me

Jack must now be dead.

Brian Hick May 2012 Jack in the Green day

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 1154

The door is locked, the gate is barred

But through it I can see

An uncut lawn, a sprouting hedge,

A blossoming plum tree;

All signs of a returnig life

Green from what was grey;

And all that has lain long as dead

Resurgent, live, today.

And what of me, behind the door

Protected from the blast

Of life and change, of energy

Which challenges the past...

Brian Hick April 2012

©copyright Sally Hick 23.4.24

 1153

You eased me to this day

Yet I cannot hear your voice;

The words get in the way

Insist there is no choice;

But You do not compel

You simply wait and give

Until my heart, o'erwhelmed,

Knows what it is to live.

Brian Hick May 2012

©copyright Sally Hick 22.4.24