Algy was on his way home, and the weather was deteriorating fast. Dense Scotch mist was sweeping across the moors, and nothing escaped the drenching of its persistent wetness. Algy sought temporary shelter under a rocky bluff, and thought of a haiku by the Japanese master Basho:
I’m a wanderer
so let that be my name –
the first winter rain
[Algy is quoting Sam Hamill’s translation of a classic haiku by Basho.]
Many of Algy’s Tumblr friends are fathers, so he wishes you all a very Happy Father’s Day, and sends you all fluffy hugs in case your children should happen to forget 🙂 He hopes you will all have a lovely day.
Most of all he sends a very special Father’s Day hug to his assitant’s father xxx
In the little book of haiku that Algy is reading among the flowers, it says:
Even these long days
are not nearly long enough
for the skylarks to sing
[Algy is reading a classic haiku by the Japanese master Basho, in The Sound of Water, an anthology of haiku translated by the American poet Sam Hamill.]
The Adventures of Algy 