Me And The Peacock

Introduction

This is for Paul's The Writer Bio and Peacock Short Story Unofficial Challenge which you can check out here:

245 Words On Me

In 2010 I joined a Gospel Choir to perform at The Sage supporting Solomon Burke. One of the songs he played was "None Of Us Are Free" which I have included with this piece. In the picture you can see a little of my face between the first two black-shirted men on stage.

I was shocked how bare the Sage (now The Glass House) was backstage.

Most people will know me as a rock/folk singer rather than a gospel singer, but that was the last time I sang in this form on such a major stage.

Around the same time I joined in lighting up Hadrian's Wall, which was great to be a part of and I often visit parts of it. I am ten minutes walk away from the wall and the Temple of Antenociticus in Benwell which you can see below. I find it amasing that on an estate just off Newcastle's West Road is a Roman Temple and River Crossing Bridge. That picture is surrounded by people's back gardens.

One of my problems with this is that I have shared so much of myself on Vocal, so there are very few things that people don't know about me.

I am not retired and I work most days. These days I do not leave the British Isles because I really detest airport check ins, although I have been to Mexico, Turkey and a few European countries as well.

I have never smoked a cigarette.

365 Words On A Peacock

It's fairly unusual the the Peacock is the most striking of the birds while the Peahen is very drab. You probably never notice a Peahen, they are the mini minor compared with the E-Type Jag or Ford Capri of the male equivalent. For why I made this comparison check out this article here:

The Peacock has a most annoying screech, and we get a lot of that on the current series of The Traitors on the BBC.

I love the tale of how The Peacocok got it's tail. Argus was Hera's watchman, and had a hundred eyes. Hera preserved the hundred eyes of Argus in the tail of the Peacock.

So every time the Peacock opens his tail, the eyes or Argus are watching you, although the Peacock's reall focus is the attract a Peahen, just like the human males who try to impress ladies witheir long bonnetted motor vehicles.

Then how did Hera take the eyes of Argus and make them permanent on the tail of the Peacock. Was the Peacock fine with that, or would he have preferred an unadorned tail? The eyes certainlly are eye-catching so to speak.

Was Hera some kind of master surgeon? One eye is not a simple operation, but one hundred, that was some effort, and what did Argus and his family think?

Maybe before the eye operation the Peacock was just a quiet bird, not making a show or bothering anybody, but now he has a century of eyes adorning his outstretched tale, he has become a loudmouthed showoff.

Did Hera know this would happen to the Peacock, she knew so many showoff loudmouth males like Zeus and Hermes. Give a male a reason to show off and he will he will puff his chest and expand his trousers (by fair means or foul) to show off how impressive he is, and any Peacock certainly does that.

If a Peacock drove a car it would be a Ford Capri.

Thanks to Heras optical surgery every time that Peacock fans his tail to show his hundred extra eyes and then loudly screeching,he is doing nothing more than showing off to you.