3246 - Mucho dinero ahora

I've got a lodger, Javier from Spain
I'm excited, can practice my Spanish
And learn so much more, it won't be in vain
Collected the deposit, Cornbrook, whizzed
On tram to Bensons 4 Beds, bought a swish
Double bed, ten instalments of forty
Quid, with storage beneath. And now I wish
The bed arrives early morning Monday
Then I can go to work and all will be
Sorted nicely, and fun begins again
Replacing Louis' excellent laughs with
The company of a Spanish guy, he
Seems good-hearted, amigos that's the main
Thing (cosa), now this year should be good-ish!

3177 - I'm not being vague - I'm in Prague

I'm safely at the Hostel Elf in Prague
Got here with no problems, got travel card
For all three days here, I'm already org-
anised for tomorrow, free tour with guide
Get to know the main sites. I can't afford
The segway tour, but bike hire's possible...
Of the Czech language I can't speak a word
But the hostel guys speak English quite well
As I'm sure many folk will do. Travel
Is easy for an English speaker, tongue
That's spoken everywhere, you're never barred
From being understood. If affable
Then you can have a good chat, get the bug
Once more for unknown pleasures, not be bored

Wed 29 April

3171 - Prague pilgrim's progress

Getting in the holiday zone of mind
Excitement builds. Today, getting my phone
Mended so I can charge it and still find
Power to post on Twitter. Having flown
To Prague, I'll want and need to have well shown
The sights I see, the folk I meet, also
In German places, beer and mountains grown
To gross proportions, only goats may go
To those high heights! My German learning's slow
I'm struggling to study the lingo, kind
Of lazy maybe, but distraction's blown
It away, along with 'Dragon Tattoo'
(The book), but I could catch up when flyin'
Or waitin' in stations for trains to come

3042 - The lamb in winter

Sunday Sunday at home today Sunday
Think there should be no punctuation now
I have begun this unorthodox way
Its OK if you are enough highbrow
A bit ee cummings Im an off show
Its cold in winter thats a big surprise
Not I should say like the size of a cow
Although it could be a baby cow size
Never assume words are true could be lies
All these are are pastimes to pass time hey
Best to pass time easily cant somehow
Motivate to activate pressurise
Myself to get big things done just the way
Ive always been can I ever change though

3030 - Mind your language

Although it's Word War One, think I'll stay in
And watch a game with Louis, not done that
In a while, plus it's cold outside, shiv'rin'
Out there's not a prospect that flats my bat
Oh God, I think before long I'll have shat
Got the urge to evacuate bowels
Never quite sure when I write words like that
You know, bowels, one or two syllables?
Soon I'll wipe my bottom with paper towels
Hope this ain't too gross, hope you're not eatin'
This last week's seen two anti-Jewish spats
Or storms in teacups maybe, two big fools
From the football world, Balotelli and
Whelan, both of them are a pair of klutz

2950 - Old wave

Not done much today, mainly just reading
Through the Encyclopedia of New Wave
The author's American, he's using
A Yank definition of who to save
For inclusion, and who not. Meanings weave
In and out as you fly the Atlantic
Different interpretations, some which they've
Adapted and altered from historic
UK roots. We before that twisted, tricked
Continental words, subtly transforming
The Latin sound and meaning to less suave
Maybe, the Anglo-Saxon Germanic
Brutalising the mellifluous ring
To that monotonous drone that we have