Wendy Cope

I just wanted to read it to all of you.

And that's called Some Rules by Wendy Cope.

Here it goes.

Stop if the car is going clunk or if the sun has made you blind.

Okay, I want to leave you with a poem.

This is The Orange by Wendy Cope.

At lunchtime, I bought a huge orange.

The size of it made us all laugh.

They're just great.

And so my advice, if you're wanting to set living poets, just call them up or... especially that's a you know years ago I set some poems by Wendy Cope when I was a student actually and in those days you had to write to someone via the publisher so I sent a letter in the post to favour and actually Wendy Cope And wrote back and said, yeah, you know, that's fine.

And, you know, here's some thoughts about what you might want to do.

I'd always been nervous of doing that.

certainty is an important quality for a leader if you think about when we evolved you wanted your tribal head to be a person who acted with certainty even if he was wrong sometimes in those nasty brutish times you needed that kind of leadership and women are hardwired to be attracted to men who show certainty because they are more likely to be men of action and therefore the genes are more likely to spread far and wide and so on and so forth.

So what Wendy Cope is talking about, a man full of certainty who will not admit he is wrong, is not just a cultural thing, because it is actually there in all cultures across the world.

It is hardwired into us.

But the good news is that we do have culture, that we don't only have nature, we have nurture.

And, and I think it's, it's recognizing, you know, as you say, that there is, there is sadness, there is rage, but there is humor, you know, even within, you know, within the sort of the depths of sadness of I Miss You.

I mean, there's some brilliant Wendy Cope that just-

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I mean, I adore Wendy Cope, and she always, always manages to make me laugh.

And that thing of actually recognizing, you know, that, that emotion, but actually, you know, the punchline which is, the punchline which is something that you can laugh at.

That enormous frustration and, and irritation and recognizing that, I think, you know, within any really, really sad experience, there is some humor, and there is always some black humor ... deep down in there somewhere.