Misery is often the parent of the most affecting touches in poetry.

[…] Squib proved clearly by his patent that the house and office did now belong to him.

Moving on again, I catch another GWR Class 802 bound for Oxford via the Cotswold Line. Our first stop is at one of the newest stations on the network - Worcestershire Parkway, which opened on February 23. It's a four-platform (actually three-platform) split-level interchange with the line from Birmingham to Bristol.

He has wittily redone a tardy epithalamium and some nursery rhymes (Three blind eunuchs), and deftly catches the cozy lawnfuls of plastic dwarfs and flamingos, outside the kenneled people.