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Pam Ayres was born in Stanford in the Vale, Berkshire (now administered as part of Oxfordshire), the youngest of six children (having four elder brothers and a sister) of Stanley and Phyllis Ayres. Her father worked for 44 years as a linesman for the Southern Electricity Board, having been a sergeant in the Grenadier Guards during the Second ...
Potting On is a radio situation comedy broadcast on BBC Radio 4.It stars poet and author Pam Ayres and veteran actor Geoffrey Whitehead as an aging couple running a garden centre with the help of various oddball employees.
The broadcasts were recorded in Armitage's writing shed in the garden of his home in West Yorkshire. The contents of the shed include "a harmonium, a pizza oven, a daybed, books on birdspotting, a decent spread of music cassettes, and an impressive collection of sherry", [ 8 ] and he has described it as "close to nature without camping on the ...
Host held back tears as she was presented with a meaningful gesture
As he wrote The Eolian Harp to commemorate coming to his home at Clevedon, Coleridge composed Reflections on Having Left a Place of Retirement on leaving it. [3] The poem was not included in Coleridge's 1796 collection of poems as it was probably still incomplete, but it was published in the October 1796 Monthly Magazine [4] under the title ...
Her living room is cluttered with cat hairs and photographs of distant relatives. Her poems consist entirely of sub-Pam Ayres cat poems, one of which, entitled Naughty Paws, managed to rhyme "Whiskas" with "discus". When her poems are eventually published it gives Adrian an excuse to expel her from the group as it is 'for amateurs only'.
Poet Laureate of Kentucky Silas House recites a poem during the second inauguration of Gov. Andy Beshear at the capitol in Frankfort, Ky, December 12, 2023. (Silas Walker/swalker@herald-leader.com)
[2] As a first-generation immigrant, she has used her poetry to connect with her home country of Somalia, which she has never visited but which she describes as "a nation of poets." [ 2 ] [ 15 ] Her words "No one leaves home unless / home is the mouth of a shark," from the poem "Conversations about home (at a deportation centre)", have been ...