Free association thread 2

[oggbashan]

Sovereign of the Seas

The Golden Hind

 

[SamScribble]

The Golden Hind

Pelican - as she was known before her sponsor bought the naming rights

 

[BurningMonkey]

Pelican - as she was known before her sponsor bought the naming rights

The Witch of Endor

 

[Aynmair]

The Witch of Endor

Wicked Witch of the West

 

[BurningMonkey]

Wicked Witch of the West

Don't make my call the flying monkeys...

 

[Aynmair]

Don't make my call the flying monkeys...

Planet of the Apes

 

[BurningMonkey]

Planet of the Apes

Charlton Heston

 

[Aynmair]

Charlton Heston

Moses

 

[BurningMonkey]

Moses

Joshua

Are you Irish, Aynmair?

 

[SamScribble]

Joshua

... Tree (U2)

 

[Aynmair]

Joshua

Are you Irish, Aynmair?

Only on Lit

 

[Aynmair]

Joshua

Are you Irish, Aynmair?

... Tree (U2)

Ocotillo

 

[SamScribble]

Ocotillo

Hello, A

A new one on me. We live and we learn.

Flame Tree

 

[Aynmair]

Hello, A

A new one on me. We live and we learn.

Flame Tree

bird of paradise flower

hi, again, Sam

 

[SamScribble]

bird of paradise flower

hi, again, Sam

Paradise Lost

 

[NaokoSmith]

Paradise Lost

'Lo Sugar

Nine times the Space that measures Day and Night
To mortal men, he with his horrid crew
Lay vanquisht, rowling in the fiery Gulfe
Confounded though immortal.

 

[Handley_Page]

'Lo Sugar

Nine times the Space that measures Day and Night
To mortal men, he with his horrid crew
Lay vanquisht, rowling in the fiery Gulfe
Confounded though immortal.

"Come, brave Helios,
bring forth thy steeds
Bring the warmth
the countryside needs."​

 

[NaokoSmith]

"Come, brave Helios,
bring forth thy steeds
Bring the warmth
the countryside needs."​

You got your wish this morning. All you need is a maiden singing.

Early one morning, just as the sun was rising ...

 

[SamScribble]

You got your wish this morning. All you need is a maiden singing.

Early one morning, just as the sun was rising ...

Hello, Honey

One Christmas was so much like another, in those years around the sea-town corner now and out of all sound except the distant speaking of the voices I sometimes hear a moment before sleep, that I can never remember whether it snowed for six days and six nights when I was twelve or whether it snowed for twelve days and twelve nights when I was six.

- Dylan Thomas (but then you knew that anyway)

 

[NaokoSmith]

Hello, Honey

One Christmas was so much like another, in those years around the sea-town corner now and out of all sound except the distant speaking of the voices I sometimes hear a moment before sleep, that I can never remember whether it snowed for six days and six nights when I was twelve or whether it snowed for twelve days and twelve nights when I was six.

- Dylan Thomas (but then you knew that anyway)

LOL, I did.

Now as I was young and easy under the apple boughs
About the lilting house and happy as the grass was green,
The night above the dingle starry,
Time let me hail and climb
Golden in the heydays of his eyes,

I should plant apple trees for Pilget to be prince(ss) of, shouldn't I

 

[oggbashan]

LOL, I did.

Now as I was young and easy under the apple boughs
About the lilting house and happy as the grass was green,
The night above the dingle starry,
Time let me hail and climb
Golden in the heydays of his eyes,

I should plant apple trees for Pilget to be prince(ss) of, shouldn't I

Cider With Rosie

 

[NaokoSmith]

Cider With Rosie

Laurie Lee wrote a lovely essay about the birth of his daughter,

The Firstborn.

 

[BurningMonkey]

Laurie Lee wrote a lovely essay about the birth of his daughter,

The Firstborn.

The Festival of First Fruits

 

[Tio_Narratore]

The Festival of First Fruits

The Green Corn Ceremony

 

[Handley_Page]

The Green Corn Ceremony

There used to be a 'sort-of' traditional ceremony in Yorkshire ; 'first footing' which took place as soon after midnight on new year's eve as possible. The visitor/s would bring a lump of coal (or a log of wood), another would bring Salt, another fruit, and so on.
This all represented the wishes of the visitor that the house would never be cold or hungry in the coming year.