Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, Whispering 'it will be happier' ...

Oh, I say, this is jolly good. It's all about yours truely. tinyurl.com/p5eorh4

O living will that shalt endure, When all that seems shall suffer shock, Rise in the spiritual rock, Flow thro' our deeds and make them pure

Wishing you all a Joyful Easter. "Once in a golden hour I cast to earth a seed. Up there came a flower, The people said, a weed."

"Freckled nest-eggs thou shalt see Hatching in the hawthorn-tree" Fancy, Keats

The ever-shifting currents of the blood According to my humour ebb and flow.

O strengthen me, enlighten me! I faint in this obscurity, Thou dewy dawn of memory

My friend, with you to live alone, Were how much better than to own A crown, a sceptre, and a throne!

Jolly good show! thelincolnite.co.uk/2014/07/lincol…

Today is the bicentenary of the birth of photographer #JuliaMargaretCameron. Our free exhibition opens 28 November ow.ly/O8tiH

Bless my soul, I almost forgot! Belated Bicentennial Birthday Greetings to my dear friend #JuliaMargaretCameron - just 200 years old today.

And after all, when all is said and done: 'Who is wise in love, love most, say least.'

Goodness me! I'm 206 years old today. How time flies!

'I am become a name; For always roaming with a hungry heart'

Huh! Just went to fill in my birthday here on my Twitter profile and they only let you go back to 1890! Ridiculous!

Some work of noble note, may yet be done, Not unbecoming men that strove with Gods.

'Tis not too late to seek a newer world

... and though We are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth and heaven; that which we are, we are;

One equal temper of heroic hearts, Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.