WalkaboutsVerse

Born in St. Mary's Manchester the day we won the FIFA World Cup, my family were (well treated) #TenPoundPoms (BBC); I went on to study Aboriginal "Land Rights" at Adelaide Uni., before "Repatriating: Australia to England" - these & all my #poems here walkaboutsverse.blogspot.com

#TheBoatRace/#BoatRace2026 My WalkaboutsVerse #poetry, with #photos attached, on my "Impressions of #London in 1997" walkaboutsverse.blogspot.com/2011/08/walkab…

#immigration News of a contracting #economy in England is good - we just need to match it by contracting our population, so that we may swim in our rivers again, etc.; my WalkaboutsVerse #poem, with #photos, on "Congestion" walkaboutsverse.blogspot.com/2011/02/walkab…

My WalkaboutsVerse #poem, with #photos (1 of York Minster with over a million #GoogleMaps views), "On #York and #Chester" walkaboutsverse.blogspot.com/2011/06/walkab…

Re #theboatrace/#BoatRace2026, why would a FEMALE wish to cultivate bulging muscles AND veins with so much #rowing? My WalkaboutsVerse #poem "At Front Lines" walkaboutsverse.blogspot.com/2010/03/walkab…

#TheBoatRace Without the need of an #Oxford comma (& not sure if I was wearing an Oxford collar?!), my #travel #poem, from WalkaboutsVerse, with plenty of #photos/#pics attached, on "Oxford": walkaboutsverse.blogspot.com/2011/08/walkab…

#TheBoatRace My WalkaboutsVerse #poetry, with #photography attached, on, in #Cambridge, "Hobson's Choice" walkaboutsverse.blogspot.com/2011/07/walkab…

#TheBoatRace My WalkaboutsVerse poem on "#Oxford Blue" walkaboutsverse.blogspot.com/2010/11/walkab…

#SaturdayKitchen Logically, it's harder to tell if spicy-food is fresh, but Asian #immigrants in England would never serve old food to make more profit - they, rather, come here for our wonderful culture & sunshine! My #poem "#Nationalism Without conquest" walkaboutsverse.blogspot.com/2011/04/walkab…

Re Monty's yews on #GardenersWorld 3/4/2026, my WalkaboutsVerse #poem, with #photos, from visits to churches, "Why the Yew?" walkaboutsverse.blogspot.com/2011/07/walkab…

Re all the pot-planting on #GardenersWorld 3/4/2026, my song, with #photos, "In A Small Pot" walkaboutsverse.blogspot.com/2010/10/walkab…

Re Ashley Edwards championing exotics on #GardenersWorld 3/4/2026, please rather plant the native flora that our native fauna EVOLVED with; more here with aerial #photos of #Levenshulme #Allotments davidfranks.blogspot.com/2010/10/theory…

As with Marco Polo, I'd rather drink coconut-water than wine...maybe not a good fortified wine?! My WalkaboutsVerse #poem, on coconuts & other tropical fruits, from my travels "Through South-East Asia" walkaboutsverse.blogspot.com/2011/10/walkab…

My Walkaboutsverse #poem, with #photos, "Whalley Abbey...What Tales?" walkaboutsverse.blogspot.com/2011/01/walkab…

#WritingCommunity #PoetryCommunity All my "Chants from Walkabouts", plus my Weekly WalkaboutsVerse #poem, e.g., may be found at this communal #poetry site - writeoutloud.net/profiles/david…

My Weekly WalkaboutsVerse #poetry blog, e.g., is my #poem on "Paradigms" davidfranks.blogspot.com/p/weekly-wav.h…

#PoetryLovers My WalkaboutsVerse #poem on "Anthropological Socialism" walkaboutsverse.blogspot.com/2011/05/walkab…

My WalkaboutsVerse #poem, on Google's BlogSpot, with a #photo & a digital (folk) art illustration, about my only marriage/divorce "Wax - Between Cotton and Leather" walkaboutsverse.blogspot.com/2011/10/walkab…

Have Richard Gere &/or Julia Roberts apologised for, in #PrettyWoman, presenting prostitution & huge inequality in such a positive light? My WalkaboutsVerse #poem, with #photos, on "Rodeo Drive" walkaboutsverse.blogspot.com/2011/09/walkab…

@Ianskellyradio3 @BBCRadio3 "King of Kings" is on the tele, by the way - with John the Baptist stirring things up.

@Ianskellyradio3 @BBCRadio3 Morning Ian from mostly-cloudy Manchester, for the Playlister, I'm not a monarchist, but did another royal, King Henry VIII, compose "Greensleeves," or did I not deserve raised-eyebrows after performing it at an English folk-singaround a few years ago?!

Good morning. It’s Friday and a ‘good’ day to have a go at listening all morning to Essential Classics with me @BBCRadio3. Three and a half hours of great classical music, laced with a little bit of fun. My doppelgänger is at the scene this morning to tell us more…