Books of Poems by
An Old Codger
SECOND EDITION
A new, extended, second edition of POEMS BY AN OLD CODGER is now available in a six-book series of rhyming poetry at Amazon Books and Amazon Kindle.
The author offers a personal account of the social history of the 20th Century.
THE IMPACT OF COVID-19
on
THE UNITED KINGDOM
December 2024
Cases – 25,021,035
Deaths – 232,112
Wikipedia
CONTENTS
2020
Extracts from the Institute for Government Analysis.
COVID -19 and my feathered friends.
COVID -19 A Wake-Up Call.
COVID -19 and You.
Our Diamond Jubilee – 2020.
Our Milkman.
Elephants Never Forget.
The Second Battle of Britain.
Lock Down in the Garden.
Christmas at COVID -19 Time.
Masked Intruder!
A year of COVID-19.
2021
Extracts from the Institute for Government Analysis.
I’m in Lockdown.
Our Zoom Anniversary.
Lockdown for me.
Our COVID-19 Jab.
Don’t Fence Me In.
Working from Home.
COVID-19 A Self-Assessment.
Love One Another.
2022
A Review of COVID-19 – 1 Observations on the event.
A Review of COVID-19 – 2 Its Impact on Towns.
Do as I say, not as I do.
BMA’s submission to the UK COVID-19 Inquiry, (Extract)
Born in the late 1930’s, he grew up in a Welsh mining community during World War Two, writes of family mining tragedies, military service, life in the post-war 50’s and 60’s, the Beatles era, and the Cold War.
The series also includes poems on the author’s observations on modern life and COVID-19 lockdown.
The Old Codger
Neil Davies
Extract from the FOREWORD to BOOK ONE.
“As I move through my four score years, I guess that my compatriots and I owe our children, our grandchildren and our great grandchildren a huge apology for allowing our world to become not as we found it when we came into this life.
We have poisoned the land, the seas, and the air. In so many ways we have reached for the stars whilst killing off our own star….”
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Neil has been married to his wife Joy for over sixty years and they have four children, ten grandchildren and three great grandchildren.
A Chartered Engineer with a M. Sc. in Applied Psychology, Neil holds the rank of Squadron Leader, serving as an Education Officer in the Royal Air Force for 16 years. During his service career he was awarded the military symbol ‘d.f’ on completion of a Defence Fellowship at UWIST, Cardiff. He later held senior positions in both HE and FE.
From the age of 17, Neil was organist and choirmaster for over 30 years, wherever he resided, and for many years enjoyed male voice choral singing.
For further information please go to the author’s email:-
[email protected] or his Instagram page:- thomasdavies82
Recent musings from An Old Codger
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DIVERSITY, EQUALITY and INCLUSION
We are an odd human race; we come in different sizes and several skin colours. We have developed separate mother tongues within each nation. We live nation alongside nation but not always in harmony. Many cannot even exist in harmony within our own population....
COVID – 19 and LOCKDOWN
It will not have escaped you all that my blogs direct you to my six books of POEMS BY AN OLD CODGER, but the photograph of the six books front covers also has a seventh book cover. There are twenty-two poems in the set of six books which are all about COVID-19 and...
FAMILY TRAGEDIES
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PARKING
Am I alone or are you the same?Car parking has become an unpleasant game.Another stress for motorists’ health.Hidden cameras operating by stealth. Searching for a parking space before a fellow driver gets it first, I know isn’t gentlemanly, but needs must. At...
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I have become rather anxious by the Government’s news that we will all have to drive electric vehicles very soon. I fear that there will be fast, silent killers on all our roads and lanes. I am fortunate to own and drive a second-hand hybrid car which, on the...
LITTER
The curse of our nation. Two million pieces a day, one billion pound a year to clear; a throw away generation, with a lack of respect. From fag ends to plastic, dog poo to car tyres. Drink cans to barbeques, burgers to chips. Over countryside, seaside, mountains...
CAREERS ADVICE – 1950’s
Looking back at my school years, they were influenced by postwar austerity and division. I passed the 11+ selection examination for Grammar School education, all due to rote learning, no teaching aids, only the cane. Taught by elderly spinsters and ex-WW1veterans....
WAR AND CONFLICT
As I write this blog, there are major conflicts causing unspeakable death and injury, not only to members of the armed forces but to civilians trying to exist among the turmoil and carnage of war. Wars that have been started by leaders who want to expand their...
CHURCH MUSIC
I grew up in a relatively new coal mining village about four miles from the town of Wrexham in North East Wales (now a city). Early road maps identified the village as a ‘model village’. The mine owners developed the village with a series of wide avenues, a central...