Purchased a white organ for the All Hallows Church<\/p>\n
In homage to the Emperor Hadrian<\/p>\n
Quite why then did this was quite often questioned<\/p>\n
And it was this subject that Caron and I discussed quietly<\/p>\n
As we strolled around an empty church<\/p>\n
Not far from the River Thames<\/p>\n
Maybe it was their love of Twickenham or maybe of Christopher Wren <\/i><\/p>\n
Or maybe they just loved the hinterlands and the damp dark river shore <\/i><\/p>\n
It was during our deliberations that we noticed an angel<\/p>\n
Near to the decorated door<\/p>\n
She was beckoning us with her delicate hand<\/p>\n
A gibbon awaits <\/i><\/p>\n
A gibbon tall and pure <\/em><\/p>\n She pulled back a dusty drape and revealed a grinning primate<\/p>\n Why did you purchase the organ white? <\/i><\/p>\n I asked whilst shaking its hairy hand<\/p>\n We purchased the organ because of the Twickenham Bridge <\/i><\/p>\n The Chertsey Road and the Twickenham Bridge <\/i><\/p>\n The homage was but a gentle whim <\/i><\/p>\n Dreamt up by our elders<\/i><\/p>\n For it was the suburbs we all loved <\/i><\/p>\n And this was the reason we installed the white organ high above our heads <\/i><\/p>\n As Caron and I looked up we began to laugh with the cherubs and angels too<\/p>\n Indeed there was not a dry eye to be found that day<\/p>\n But the greatest amusement was reserved for the gibbons<\/p>\n The Gibbons of Lombard Street<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Purchased a white organ for the All Hallows Church In homage to the Emperor Hadrian Quite why then did this was quite often questioned And it was this subject that Caron and I discussed quietly As we strolled around an empty church Not far from the River Thames Maybe it was their love of Twickenham […]<\/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\/2006"}],"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=2006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2006\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}