A once in a century event!

 

Image data credit: NASA

A new crater,approximately 200 metres in diameter, on the Moon. Not something that happens very often!

Gaia Awakes

 

Year on Year Growth - fiscally fucking shrewd!

Its all about maintaining the financial bottom line

Exploitation is what made our country great

In the end it will turn out all OK, and just fine

Open up an oilfield and pump a lot more oil

Contaminate another water course

Sell seats to watch seas and oceans boil.

Just do stuff because you can, not because we asked

Use the cash you make to fund our 'security'

Sheep in paramilitary uniforms, faces masked 

Fuck all the polar bears and screw all honey bees

Launch another constellation of satellites

Fell another forest and another million trees

Nothing really matters if the bank balance grows

When an elite owns all the money and  the media

It can manufacture reality and control who knows

Take no responsibility and divert all the blame

Award yourself a big annual bonus

Use economic bollocks to cover up the shame

Deny all wrongdoing, hide every bad decision  

Return all challenges to challengers

Treat adverse criticism with absolute derision 

Faith, fact and fiction, blur the distinction 

Corrupt the incorruptible 

Promote evangelical, salvation from extinction

Deny science, promote opinion, to take it's rightful place 

Cut expenditure on education and welfare 

Let blind ignorance be a grace.

Digitise, computerise and throw away the books

Ensure the elite owns our history

If anyone left subsequently looks

State the fate of 'the poor' is all 'foreigners' fault

 'Illegal immigrants' are to blame!

Keep your hand in the till, just avoid being caught 

If you don't give a shit and are rotten to the core

You can manufacture guns and ordinance

There's profit in hurting humans, pestilence, war.

If the thing you say to day is so fucking bad

What you said and did yesterday seems less so

Not really bad, but demented, mad and rather sad

Sleep secure in bunkers miles bored underground 

With no elite conscience nor morality

We're sure your sleep, will be profoundly sound

And if whilst you are sleeping there is a fall in income rate

You can deploy the troops on waking

To threaten a former friendly foreign state

But growth will inevitably come to a sad sorry end

Finite resources aren't infinite!

Resources on which both we and growth depend

Lie and spread bullshit, whilst it makes you money

Buy sex,  fast cars, yachts, large properties 

So what, if we are unable to purchase pure honey?

The glaciers are melting and slip sliding away

There is no where habitable in space to travel to

It doesn't really matter what your influencers say

Clean water and clean air aren't a human right

Because Billionaires want even more tax free

The Earth and humanity can all go to shite

Gaia has been sleeping, watching time slowly pass

But now she is awakening from her slumber

To unceremoniously and fundamentally, kick arse.

George Roberts - Bleak Doggerel of the Day September 2026.

My son threatened to place me in residential care home if I didn't 'lighten up'. This should do it then!

The Fossilized Bone Marrow of an Auroch

 

Points in one direction time's arrow

Points directly at the auroch marrow

Which sits upon a shelf in our snug

On permanent display!

I believe this fossil bone cast

Has a bovine interglacial past

Which it shared with elephant and rhino

Back in the day!

The Auroch could not believe its eyes

As it experienced its unexpected demise

Falling terminally into a fast flowing river

When river bank fell away!

It is no fossil mystery

Aurochs exist only in prehistory 

If only they had mastered b'east-stroke

Or knew how to tread water. Yay!

George Roberts Doggerel Slinger - September 2026

Pottery Throwdown

 

Pottery created by master potter 
 Chrissy H Roberts

Watching Keith Brymer Jones on TV

Judging pottery

It's a bit of a lottery

As to whether or not he might cry?

Thrown down and in slabs, 'lovey'

Assessing pottery

Is a lot of a lottery

 Will Keith weep, get emotional and cry?

Out of the drying room and into the fire

Baked to a bisque 

Or porcelain risked

Will Keith get smoked up, choked up and cry?

Underglaze, over glaze and raku free

There is many a clay slip

Twixt saucer, cup and lip.

So, will Keith say 'Brilliant lovey' and cry?

Who will be 'Potter of the Week'? 

Who will be leaving the pottery tonight?

A ceramic finale, featuring fight or flight

When Keith and the 'Kiln Gods' might cry.

More doggerel from George  Roberts September 2026 

Get Tanked up with Syd Carp No 8 - Automatic Feeder

 

Ledgendary aquarist and tropical fish fancier, Syd Carp,  dropped into the Cabine today bearing a gift (less than £25) from his mate Geoffrey Amazon (no relation). A digital automatic fish feeder!  Whatever next?🤯

As I said at the time " This looks like unnecessary fun"😱

"What did I say Roy"?🤣

"This looks like unnecessary fun"🤫

We are currently in the experimental stage of testing whether it works. Fish expiring or growing porky will be the litmus test for the device!🐷⚰️

I couldn't help but think that as my brain atrophies with age, at least the fish will be fed..

The alternative to the automatic feeder is Syd Carp and Dave Angel taking up permanent residency chez nous.

Happenstance

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Art is definitely in the eye of the beholder and sometimes it is the result of a happy accident , aka 'Happenstance''.

I was looking for something in the Cabine, when I noticed that a plate of copper, given to me by friends, had suffered from surface contamination and subsequent corrosion. The marks upon the plate's surface were intriguing and to me  looked liked an 'Ankylosaurus' from the late Cretaceous Period.

AI provided the landscape!

Rainbow Fish

The Rainbow fish in my tank

Shall I name him Fred or Frank?

Such a cheerful vibrant guy

Stares at me with a jet black eye

Contemplating a desperate dark dystopian dish

Chips fried in dripping and him a battered fish.

George Roberts September 2026