What are you reading Anna<\/p>\n
Night Walks by Charles Dickens<\/p>\n
What is about<\/p>\n
Night Walks<\/p>\n
He wrote it at a time in his life when he was an insomniac<\/p>\n
Charles used to wander through London at night in an effort to seek a cure<\/p>\n
It was during these walks that he really discovered the streets<\/p>\n
And it is recorded in this small book<\/p>\n
So what has this to do with the Duke of Wellington<\/p>\n
One of these observations is called Trading in Death<\/p>\n
Let me read some of it to you<\/p>\n
It is about Wellington’s funeral<\/p>\n
SEATS and WINDOWS to LET in the best part of the Strand a few doors from Coutts banking house<\/em><\/p>\n Or more locally souvenirs\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n One of the last LETTERS of the DUKE OF WELLINGTON for DISPOSAL dated from Walmer Castle within a day or two of his death<\/em><\/p>\n There was quite a cottage industry in those days<\/p>\n It seems quite haunting that the Duke lived and died so near to us<\/p>\n Do you think our house was here in 1852<\/p>\n I doubt it<\/p>\n What do you think was here<\/p>\n I do not have foggiest as the coastal geography has changed so much around here in the last hundred and fifty years<\/p>\n The sea I think was nearer to the castle in those days<\/p>\n Would you pay to watch the Duke’s funeral<\/p>\n I fear I would be a bit late Anna<\/p>\n I mean if you were around in 1852<\/p>\n Watch it on television<\/p>\n I would watch it on television<\/p>\n In 1852<\/p>\n Yes just after the Night Garden<\/p>\n Outlaw<\/p>\n Yes<\/p>\n I cannot get any sense out of this one<\/p>\n Really<\/p>\n What is your question<\/p>\n Would you have paid to watch the Duke of Wellington’s funeral in London in 1852<\/p>\n Dunno<\/p>\n Maybe<\/p>\n Would you<\/p>\n Possibly<\/p>\n Outlaw<\/p>\n What<\/p>\n Would you end this fiction as we are getting precisely nowhere<\/p>\n I was rather enjoying it<\/p>\n Ask Anna<\/p>\n I have<\/p>\n And what did she say<\/p>\n She just took the piss<\/p>\n Do you know something Anna<\/p>\n Pray tell<\/p>\n You take life far to seriously sometimes<\/p>\n It saddens my pen<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What are you reading Anna Night Walks by Charles Dickens What is about Night Walks He wrote it at a time in his life when he was an insomniac Charles used to wander through London at night in an effort to seek a cure It was during these walks that he really discovered the streets […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11068"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11079,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11068\/revisions\/11079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}