Comments on: Boneyard Dogs

By: rr

rr — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 15:17:52 +0000

Yup, you've got the measure of us, Dave. Weepy dog stuff. None among your commenters, I imagine, has seen the Futurama episode Jurassic Bark. It is almost unendurably sad and I wept buckets when shown it by the children. Buckets and also barrels. Don't watch it, dog people! But it's the final four lines that do it with this one. How lovely. Thank you. And Maizy thanks you too.

By: Clive Hicks-Jenkins

Clive Hicks-Jenkins — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 06:52:16 +0000

Sorry, I meant Beverley Nichols!

By: Clive Hicks-Jenkins

Clive Hicks-Jenkins — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 06:46:53 +0000

Lucy, I too have the ‘dog stuff’ thing! There’s a book by Beverly Nichols… now there’s a writer whose name I rarely hear these days… that despite its sentimental tone had me weeping at a description of the author returning in a dream to the garden of his youth, and hearing the approaching barks of his long-dead dog as it bounded through the woods and fields of a perfect English summer, joyful that its master had at last returned home. Yup… there I go!

Great piece Dave. Highgate cemetery certainly gave you a heap of inspiration. Keep ’em coming. Love the elegiac tone of the last verse. Is that a little tear in my eye? Mmmmm, ‘fraid so! (Note to self: toughen up man, for Christ’s sake!)

By: Lucy

Lucy — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 05:38:47 +0000

Shit Dave, that first one made me cry. Dog stuff often does, I’m afraid. Doesn’t mean it can’t be good.