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How to get Booked as a Singer

 ...preferably not offending sixteen retired Admirals...                                                             At a happier occasion...   I sang "The Holy City" in Aldeburgh Catholic Church at the funeral of Gerard Minden's Great Uncle Jasper.   Gerard introduced to both me and this blog here...     There had been a muted scandal some years before.   Gerard explained, ‘Uncle Jasper would say that, being Catholic, we all have our peculiar use for rosaries...'    Jasper's mother, for one, told his aunt during the second world war that a cyanide capsule was a vitamin pill.    'Anyway, Great Uncle Jasper was telling his specific Rosary while he taught English...hand in trouser pocket fuddling his privates.  At times of high stress (possibly an Emily Dickinson) he’d find he was telling on a visible erection.  “Pulsing, bucking, lolling, dear boy.  I used firmly to warn it to bugger off before I read it some fucking Tennyson”.’   Gerard’s s