02/06/2013 // by Jan Moran Neil

Blog 66 – ‘Dialogue with the Queen’. In commemoration of the Queen’s coronation 60 years ago almost to
this minute, here is a bit of fun from my collection ‘Serving Bluebird Pie’ available on Kindle for a couple of quid.

Dialogue with the Queen

Last night I dreamt the Queen said to me,
“Oh Janet, weren’t you in the crowd at Jubilee
in … nineteen seventy seven?
Wasn’t it that little town in Devon?”

“Falmouth,” I replied.

“Ah yes, and in nineteen eighty two
at Regent’s Park, we remember asking you –
‘how has been the weather?’”

I said, “I replied to you, ‘not bad’ but I lied.
In fact the weather could not have been wetter.

“Janet,” said she,
“you were the invisible voice of Puck’s fairy.
This, I believe, is what you have always been …
A little one doing good deeds unseen,
It’s always so nice to see you
and we are always so interested too
to know how you are in particular.
And so is the Duke of Edinburgh.”

This is called ‘illusions of grandeur’.

In fact I was an invisible fairy at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre in both 1982 and 1983 and I have earned my sheckles in better ways.
The Creative Ink for Writers’ autumn term is now open for enrolments and booking fast. Just five classes in November as I’ve been accepted for the Masters’ degree in Creative Writing at St Edmund’s College, Cambridge as from October which I hope will enrich my teaching of a subject I love.
Flip Webster gets a free handout sheet of her choice for spotting that her show – ‘Women of an Uncertain Age’ is at the Gilded Balloon and not the Gilded Ballroom as I stated –at Edinburgh this August. Thank goodness Flip knows where she is.
And Gavin Extence wrote ‘The Universe versus Alex Woods’ and not Alex ‘Hoods’. He’s coming to talk at Creative Ink on Thursday 14th November.
Mr Double Cream of Uxbridge – where is this poem submission what you won on an intentional error? No intentionals this week.

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  1. Jenny says:

    A Masters – that is blinking wonderful – congratulations doll !

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