{"id":1773,"date":"2015-08-16T16:21:11","date_gmt":"2015-08-16T16:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stuartmillerosborne.co.uk\/?p=1773"},"modified":"2015-08-16T17:41:43","modified_gmt":"2015-08-16T17:41:43","slug":"my-friend-in-the-philippines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2015\/08\/16\/my-friend-in-the-philippines\/","title":{"rendered":"My Friend in the Philippines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><i>Was previously the mayor of Berwick on Tweed <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Who thought his town had gone to seed <\/i><\/p>\n<p>I disagreed with him as I considered Berwick to be a splendid place<\/p>\n<p><i>His name was Price-Pettifer and he lived on the beach<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Where he fished most days with his wife Til\u2013Teeech<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Their life was simple and very slow <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>As there was little to do and nowhere to go <\/i><\/p>\n<p>We did not communicate often<\/p>\n<p>But when our radio silence was broken<\/p>\n<p><i>We talked for hours <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>About border issues and lowland flowers<\/i><\/p>\n<p><em>Although critical of his home raised town<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>His tone was upbeat and never down<\/em><\/p>\n<p><i>He missed the keen winds and the mysterious lights <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Our coastal walks on slow dark nights <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Trips to Ayr and trips to Dundee<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>And my little house not far from the sea \u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><i>\u00a0Authors Note<br \/>\n<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>This poem was written by an E.M Gallagher and found in a cheap paperback in my hotel room in Berwick in February 2013<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>The author appears to local but quite why it was left randomly in the hotel room is open to question<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>I have checked to see if any of the previous mayors of the town were called <i>Price-Pettifer<\/i> and whether they had been or were resident in the Philippines<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>My enquiries have drawn a complete blank as this person has never held high office in the town<br \/>\n<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>I have included this poem as a complete curiosity <\/i><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><i>\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Was previously the mayor of Berwick on Tweed Who thought his town had gone to seed I disagreed with him as I considered Berwick to be a splendid place His name was Price-Pettifer and he lived on the beach Where he fished most days with his wife Til\u2013Teeech Their life was simple and very [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1773"}],"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=1773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1773\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}