Today, Gyles compares us to a Summer’s day as he takes us on exploration of one of his favourite subjects: Poetry, and specifically, the Sonnet.

Together, Susie and Gyles will uncover the A’s and B’s of this ‘little song’, deciphering the iambic from the pentameter, and encountering the greats from Shakespeare to Petrarch to Milton.

14 lines later, we’ll have what Gyles teaches us can be a companion for life as there is always a poem for an occasion that can provide comfort and company. We’ll be dancing by the light of the moon by the end of this episode! 



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Susie trio:


  To be overmused and have thinkache: To be exhausted from too much thinking and then encounter an instance of mental suffering and general weariness in your mind.

  Fauchle - Scottish word meaning to work listlessly and not be able to concentrate.

  Firgun - Hebrew term meaning unselfish pride and admiration in someone else’s deeds.


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This week, we're unraveling the sentimental journey behind the word 'nostalgia'. Join Susie and Gyles on a linguistic journey through time, where every word is a portal to the past.

Enjoy Susie’s Trio for the week:

Desiderate: To yearn for something one once had but has now lost.

Listicle: Simply, a little list!

Natsukashii: A Japanese word used when something evokes a fond memory from your past and that is enough in itself.

Gyles' poem this week was 'Growing Old ' by Nanette Newman: 

     Growing old is like a career

only a career you didn’t train for

you didn’t expect

and you certainly didn’t want.

This ‘new’ career – creeps up on you

And surprises you.

     For instance

You find yourself saying new lines, like

‘Everything looks a bit blurry’

‘Why do my legs hurt me?’

‘Why do my arms have flabby bits?’

‘Why can’t I run any more?’

‘Why do people speak so quietly?’

‘Why is my iPad such a mystery?’

(even though my six-year-old Grandson has shown me how to work it ‘ten’ times)

And ‘why do people hide my house keys?’

     Also you suppose this New career (Growing Old) is going to

Have a long run, but

Showbusiness being what it is

It could come to a sudden end

(but perhaps best not to think about that).

     Anyway - if it does run -

You hope the notices are ‘good’

Critics might say ‘you look good for your age’

But - this is not the role you’d chosen to play.

Anyway it seems you’re stuck with it

And let's face it you have been rehearsing for it for many years!

     When you think about it 

There’s a bit of ‘Agatha Christie’ about

This new part - for instance

Skirts hanging in the wardrobe

Suddenly get smaller

Round the waist -

Something mysterious changes

The colour of your hair

Chairs try and hold on to you - so that

You can’t get out of them

     Why is print smaller?

Why do you look forward

to a hot water bottle at night?

(that’s definitely climate change)

Also, what is filling your body with liquid –

So that you have to pee all night?

(This definitely needs more research).

     Your new career

‘Being Old’

Has a long list of questions

Surrounding it - to be

Honest – the part is not

Really very well written –

And doesn’t have much

Appeal – ( no wonder Judi Dench turned it down).

     You ask yourself

Is the character you

Are now going to play

Wiser? – no – I don’t think so

Funnier? Only unintentionally

Like – when you forget

Where you’re going – or

Throw your arms round

The plumber, because

You thought he was your

Friend's husband, come

Round because he’d

Found your glasses.

     Anyway, how long you’ll be

Playing this part

(You don’t want to play)

You’ve no idea.

     You don’t feel the

Rehearsals have been

‘long enough’.

     Some of the cast

(the even older members

Have already left the

Production) – 

     You miss them.

So – this is a step

into the unknown

in your ‘new career’

a new part to play.

     Will it have a ‘long run’?

Who knows

But there you go

‘That’s Showbusiness’

So – Here we are.



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Saudade

Join us on a rhythmic journey through the history of one of the most iconic genres of music... JAZZ! Susie and Gyles dive deep into the origins and evolution of the term that defines a genre full of creativity, spontaneity, and soul.



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Pelagic: Concerning the seas.

Galumptious: Tiptop; first rate.

Pursive: Short-winded.



Gyles' poem this week was 'To Dream In Jazz'



To Dream in Jazz,

Is to become Jazz,

Close your eyes and listen,

Go to where Jazz becomes life

When your eyes reopen,

You'll become Jazz,

Your words will sing the blues.



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Join Susuie and Gyles this week as they unravel the linguistic roots behind murder. From the ancient origins of 'homicide' to the sinister evolution of 'assassination', we uncover the words we use to describe humanity's darkest deeds.



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Suasible: Susceptible to persuasion.

Rannygazoo: Nonsense.

Fudgel: To make a big show of working whilst doing nothing at all.



Gyles' poem this week was 'The Stern Parent' by Harry Graham



Father heard his Children scream,

So he threw them in the stream,

Saying, as he drowned the third,

"Children should be seen, not heard!"



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This week, Susie and Gyles drift off far far away to the land of sleep... 



So tune in and embark on a journey through the nocturnal landscape of words.



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Nescience: An absence of knowledge; ignorance.

Phobophobia: The fear of being afraid.

Rasorial: Characteristically scratching the ground for food.



Gyles' poem this week was 'Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed (Sonnet 27)' by William Shakespeare



Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed,

The dear repose for limbs with travel tired;

But then begins a journey in my head,

To work my mind, when body’s work’s expired:

For then my thoughts, from far where I abide,

Intend a zealous pilgrimage to thee,

And keep my drooping eyelids open wide,

Looking on darkness which the blind do see:

Save that my soul’s imaginary sight

Presents thy shadow to my sightless view,

Which, like a jewel hung in ghastly night,

Makes black night beauteous and her old face new.

    Lo! Thus, by day my limbs, by night my mind,

    For thee and for myself no quiet find.

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This week, Susie and Gyles explore fragrances and scents. Join us as we inhale the sweet aromas of people and places...



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Enjoy Susie’s Trio for the week: 



Acang: To act foolishly, lose self-control.

Anythingarian: One who professes no creed in particular; an indifferentist.

Coleworts: Old news. Literally, a cabbage-like plant. From the proverb for “old news,” “coleworts twice sodden’.



Gyles' poem this week was 'Home Thoughts, From Abroad' by Richard Browning



Oh, to be in England

Now that April's there,

And whoever wakes in England

Sees, some morning, unaware,

That the lowest boughs and the brushwood sheaf

Round the elm-tree bole are in tiny leaf,

While the chaffinch sings on the orchard bough

In England—now!



And after April, when May follows,

And the whitethroat builds, and all the swallows!

Hark, where my blossomed pear-tree in the hedge

Leans to the field and scatters on the clover

Blossoms and dewdrops—at the bent spray's edge—

That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over,

Lest you should think he never could recapture

The first fine careless rapture!

And though the fields look rough with hoary dew,

All will be gay when noontide wakes anew

The buttercups, the little children's dower

—Far brighter than this gaudy melon-flower! 



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