Random Visuals..

Does my bum look big in this?

 

This takes me back to my younger days

By then the lamplighter had stopped using a ladder when lighting the lamps (the two crossbars were for leaning the ladder against), except when any cleaning or adjusting was necessary, and just used a long pole.



My tea is nearly ready and the sun has left the sky;
It’s time to take the window to see Leerie going by;
For every night at teatime and before you take your seat,
With lantern and with ladder he comes posting up the street.

Now Tom would be a driver and Maria go to sea,
And my papa’s a banker and as rich as he can be;
But I, when I am stronger and can choose what I’m to do,
Oh Leerie, I’ll go round at night and light the lamps with you!

For we are very lucky, with a lamp before the door,
And Leerie stops to light it as he lights so many more;
And O! before you hurry by with ladder and with light,
O Leerie, see a little child and nod to him tonight

Robert Louis Stevenson