Inspired stuff, John. I think I'll stick to the Eurostar.
Comment is about WE'RE ALL GOING ON A SAGA HOLIDAY (blog)
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Thankyou Graham. I struggled with a narrative which would live up to the title.
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Thanks for the comments 😎
Comment is about Improvise. Plagiarise? (blog)
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I shouldn’t have encouraged you JC but I have to say I nearly fell out of bed reading this, especially the soup chorus!!
I didn’t know you’d been on the ‘tinsel and turkey’ runs.
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Cheers Red, much appreciated 🙂
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Cheers Uil, much appreciated 🙂
Comment is about What's in store (blog)
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"Put 'em up against a wall and shoot 'em, that's what I say". Everybody wants to do the shooting but nobody wants to be shot. Great piece, Steve.
Comment is about Kier (blog)
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The message is ongoing, the question timeless. All art is
derivative. But in many ways, we stand on the shoulders of
giants and have nothing to add to what is already there to be
read of hands and minds that worked at their craft many
generations ago. We can only do our best in our own way.
Or - as Frankie Howard might say - "Please yerself!!".
Comment is about Improvise. Plagiarise? (blog)
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Thanks
Red Brick Keshner
Stephen Gospage
Holden Moncrieff
for your likes.
💗
Comment is about Sunday Prayers - edited repost with audio (blog)
Thanks for your likes and comments
Red Brick Keshner
Stephen Gospage
Aisha Suleman
Holden Moncrieff
Hélène
John Gilbert Ellis
As I get older, having hoped and worked in my own small way for peace through the years, the suffering of innocents, especially children weighs heavy on my heart. I take consolation that there are many good people out there with good consciences and intentions who are lending their voices to the jihad, the struggle for peace.
💗
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Thanks for you likes and comments
leonidas
keith jeffries
K. Lynn
What an irony that this gallant lady has expressed a wish to study Human Rights in the UK!
Comment is about The Lioness (blog)
Thanks Graham, Steve, John, MC, and Uilleam for your comments, and to Nigel, Red Brick, Holden and John for the Likes. I've been hearing stories from local poetry friends about the Charltons on my FB page ... more comments about Jack and Sissie than Bobby, as it happens.
Comment is about Farewell, Sir Bobby (blog)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Mon 23rd Oct 2023 05:06
Thank you for your kind words on my work 'Fire'. Really glad you liked it.
Comment is about Hélène (poet profile)
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This is so beautiful, Hélèna. What a joy, indeed.
Comment is about Unexpected Joy (blog)
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Thankyou for your thoughts, Uilleam.
Comment is about THE OLD ONES (blog)
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Heart rending David.
Comment is about Just Some body (a child refugee) (blog)
Original item by David R Mellor
When the younger lads at work used to take the mickey out of me with "it stinks of piss in here, he's over the hill", my riposte was: "at least I got to the hill; you'll be lucky if you get to it!"😉
Comment is about THE OLD ONES (blog)
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Thanks Wilma.
sometimes it's hard to believe it, but there's a lot to be grateful for in nature's bounty.
Comment is about Autumn (blog)
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Most of mine come through best bittter and a whiskey chaser on a Friday.
Comment is about Improvise. Plagiarise? (blog)
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Nah, au contraire, that's compassion in my opinion, Uilleam
Comment is about Reflections on.... (blog)
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Thanks Steve,
generous to a fault.
Tommy
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Thanks Keith,
Eisenhower again: “We must not fail to comprehend its (the military-industrial complex’s) grave implications we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence…The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist." My brackets.
Israel Palestine /Russia Ukraine painfully come to mind.
Comment is about A Commandment (blog)
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I'm always buying my missus chocolates; she complains saying she's on a diet and leaves most for me. Brilliant-I'll never lose weight!
Comment is about Last First Date (blog)
Original item by Mike McPeek
"The opposite of Best in so many ways:"
Speaks volumes Greg: having said that, I wonder what I'd have done with his money and fame!
Comment is about Farewell, Sir Bobby (blog)
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...a friendly old lunatic.
I hope that's me at my best in the pub.😉
Comment is about The lost boys (blog)
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Thank you Hélène.
Wise words.
I find myself increasingly "wounded" and depressed by terrible injustices in the world. I hope that's not self-centred of me?
Comment is about Reflections on.... (blog)
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Cracking 1st 4 lines Tommy.
Dwight Eisenhower's "military industrial complex" at work?
Comment is about What's in store (blog)
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Thanks MC. I’ve already explained at length that I don’t do “right and left wing” anymore; those terms are redundant in my philosphy; I prefer to stick to “right and wrong”.
That which some might regard as “far left” could well be described by others as fascistic, totalitarian, and a total cop-out to the forces of capitalist greed.
Comment is about Good-bye Election (blog)
Wonderful and powerfully written, Stephen.
Thank you.
Comment is about Protestor (blog)
Original item by Stephen Gospage
UOC - the genuine conservative has the interest of the country
at heart. I look forward to your comments about the "far left", not least because its existence somehow seems to escape attention in today's political/media cosy world.
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There's also a saying "If you want peace, prepare for war". Ironically,
war seems an undying part of the human condition and the
reasons never change. The only "positive" is that it can often
propel progress in various ways that might not have been seen
otherwise.
Comment is about A Commandment (blog)
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He'll be joining some formidable talents in that heavenly team -
Stan Matthews, Stan Mortensen, Tom Finney...for a start.
I recall the words of a WW2 veteran of the US 501 Airborne
Division who, when asked by his grandson if he was a hero, replied "No, but I was in a company of heroes".
With his place in the 1966 World Cup win and a notable career
at Manchester United, I think Bobby Charlton might claim the same.
Comment is about Farewell, Sir Bobby (blog)
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MSR - your comment and "like are much appreciated - thank you.
Thanks also for the likes are due to Holden/Helene/Stephen/Dean and Tom.
Comment is about AUTUMN TREES (blog)
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Thank you, Nigel, Bill, Hélène and K Lynn for liking this one. I don't have the courage to be the next Greta Thunberg!
Comment is about Protestor (blog)
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Thank you, Keith. Pacifism is a challenging position and I admire you for it. People need to be up to the task of implementing 'Thou shalt not kill'.
Comment is about A Commandment (blog)
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You have to watch these cruise passengers, especially after a couple of cocktails. Anything can happens, and it seems it did!
Comment is about Kidnap in Venice - Here comes the W.I. (blog)
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Thank you both. “Norah” is probably a combination of all 3 - Pam Ayres is a legend of verse - I have always loved her wit & way with rhyme. The village where I live & its cast of residents is definitely a source of inspiration, more absurd fun to come…! 😃
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Norah- Bloody, Nitty, or Batty?
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Simple, precise and beautiful, M.C.
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A beautiful and meaningful description of the Autumn season. Another wonderful poem, Wilma.
Thank you.
Comment is about Autumn (blog)
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An evocative poem, Keith, adding your perspective and conclusion to it, based on your experience and knowledge just makes it even more authentic.
Thank you.
Comment is about A Commandment (blog)
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Oh and this for anyone interested in freedom of speech, writers, academics etc:
https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/home-secretary-faces-uproar-over-entry-spanish-neo-nazi-far-right-extremist-britain-1719878
Comment is about Good-bye Election (blog)
thank you Hélène for understanding
Comment is about Wife, Mother, Self. Husband, Father, Self (blog)
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MC.
"caring conservatism"...? yer 'avin a larf!
An oxymoron if ever there was.
Comment is about Good-bye Election (blog)
Thanks all for your likes and comments.
A year or so ago, I remarked to a friend that the Tories, in their race to the bottom, were absolutely devoid of trustworthiness and compassion in any aspect of government policy -domestic or foreign; and that in order to garner any kind of support they would scrape the barrel of dog-whistling nastiness.
My answer to you Keith is yes-much worse! I fear they will reorganise in the guise of a “Reform UK” party or similar, designed to appeal directly to racists and fascists.
Cruella Braverman has threatened pro-Palestinian anti-genocide protestors with police persecution, yet she allows this:
https://twitter.com/Searchlight_mag/status/1702753037993877547/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1702753037993877547%7Ctwgr%5E7660463cef35902e44eaf58373e8aa6b8ebbd967%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.blogpreston.co.uk%2F2023%2F09%2Fhome-office-urged-to-investigate-after-far-right-conference-at-samlesbury-hotel%2F
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John Coopey
Tue 24th Oct 2023 11:39
Eurostar, eh, Stephen? “You’re a Star” would work, wouldn’t it?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bYAOU5f5qTQ&pp=ygUTeW91J3JlIGEgc3RhciBzb25nIA%3D%3D
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