Tuesday 13 April 2010

Spike Milligan.

The name of Spike Milligan is known to every English and Irish man; but quite possibly not anywhere else; other than Australia. (This may not be so; see Comments. In fact he is quite possibly known absolutely everywhere!).

Milligan was a comic; he wrote a very successful war-time radio comedy show called 'The Goons'. He was also a good friend of Prince Charles.

Other than being a tad bonkers, he was also an erstwhile 'poet'....


'Bump'.

Things that go bump in the night
should not really give one a fright.
It's the hole in each ear
that lets in the fear.
That, and the absence of light.

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6 comments:

  1. What about NZ? We are Spike fans...I hope your knees fall off.

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  2. Perhaps Cro thinks that we, in good old N.Z., are already part of Australia.

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  3. Sorry. You're quite right, of course. It's just that he had family in Oz and used to go there quite a lot, hence being so well known.

    John, your pix of south NZ need some words! I need to know more.

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  4. Glasse half-full: Did you read my piece below? I'm sure you'll remember this.

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  5. And Milligan specialised in McGonegal recitals.

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  6. I would wait each week to sit by the radio in the living room - crouch, cuddle, get as close as I could is more like it - to lose myself in the Goon Show. Rare happy times for me.

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