Thank you for paying me a visit Neil. Yes - that poem is a fixed favourite even beyond my own family now and I wonder if I'll ever be able to write anything as funny.

I don't think we've ever met - try to make it to the Christmas Tudor on 8th - it should be one worth coming to. x

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Hi Nick, 'Sidings'. John Coopey's got me at the rail poems again. I read something like it at an Open Mike session in the Cape a while back now and had it published in the enthusists rag. Thanks for commenting.

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Hi Dave, 'Sidings' haven't quite got round to importing piccys yet - perhaps set myself a new challenge for 2012. Thanks for the comments. Cheers.

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Glad you liked "Flowers" - your comment was
much appreciated.
I have just been reading your profile poem "Early January Snow Blues". A touching
evocation of not only the elements but of their
connection to our former lives in memories that
creep back under their influence. It had me
recalling some days during the really hard winter of '63 in rural Berkshire (that dates me, doesn't it?!)

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Thanks for comment on Rainbow. Yes, wanted to punch with ahort repeated words but worried was too simplistic. Alcohol induced depression ain't fun.

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Thanks for your comments on "7 'Clock Brit" Nick. It's a particularly "blokey" thing is railway nostalgia, isn't it?
Re Beeching: it'd be lovely to have the old rail network we had 50 years ago but even that wouldn't restore the romance of steam.

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Thanks for the comments on "7 O'Clock Brit".
I think it's a case of "the other man's grass" in that the treasured rarities for us in the Midlands was an errant Castle or King wandering up to Nottingham Victoria.
My sorrow was that my territory was always the LMS and I never got to se the Streaks on the LNER. By the time I went to Grantham (our nearest LNER station) they'd been withdrawn and the paler attraction was the Deltics.

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Also, i was quite lookin forward to the naked revolution on WOL, thought that once a few had got the ball rolling, we'd see thousands of quirky shots as profile images. Ah well.

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It is indeed my favourite picture from the shoot. Especially as it doesn't show off my 'concentration camp' physique quite so much.

True Manna was supposed to get a few people thinking. I'm going through one of those phases. I think that organised religion has it's place, it's just a shame it causes so many issues and divisions. When really, in essence, they're pretty much all on the same path. So why can't they at least hold hands on the walk?

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Glad you posted this poem Alison, it was lovely to meet you at Lumb Bank! xxxx

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Hi Richard, Welcome to Write Out Loud. Winston

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Thankyou for commenting on Jack Frost. I have been reading through some of your poems and so agree with money, the second verse is very powerful.Thanks.

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Thankyou for commenting on my poem Jack Frost - I think you may have had that same experience of scratching the ice from the inside window in the morning as a child to look out.I have enjoyed a rustle through your poems, lovely evocations, warmed by the pigstraw.

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Listened to your Audio? I'm a rebel in the bone yard too! lovely Voice xx

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Hi Fifi! Hope you're doin' great! xx

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Ann I really liked the weekday idea for the unicorn poem. It sets it into a time frame that still seems brief but has a longer feel. I think had I done it I would have spoken to the unicorn a little too.

Great work,

Graham

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running round as family are mostly ill at the moment, but life's good.. hoping to get chance to do some more blogging soon as i have a few new poems on the way to being done (and several on the way to be published).. Perks of being a man of lesire - lol

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Hi Cate

Cheers for your note on Break The Loop. Like lots of kids I got bullied from the get go. Also had incredibly difficult problems with my daughter, who is gay, and was badly bullied by pretty much the entire school for the last 2 years of her school life.

The school refused to recognise it as homophobic bullying, didn't do a thing about it, it wasn't covered in the school bullying policy either. So I took it to the LEA and we pushed for over a year to get the problem recognised and dealt with. Eventually, after having to threaten them with legal action, using the excellent resources at Schools Out, and making complaints to the police, they relented, accepted it, changed the policy to include homophobia, and also introduced the subject in two community classes. Could have done with someone like you on our side back then!

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I can't do the next Tudor, but I'll make it my New Year resolution to do January. Probably see you at the BOMPs launch though.

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I am enjoying your stuff Ritchie/Martin person..thanks for your comment on being in neither one place or the other..took note of what you said..cheers :)

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Thanks for commenting Cate. When is there going to be more from you? x

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What a great profile picture! And what a shame it's not in the calendar - though I can imagine what kind of poetry it would have inspired :)
It would have been my favourite month though!

I've just changed back to my mugshot. I leave a lot of comments on here and found it a bit disconcerting seeing my arse on every page...

Take care. x

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Hello Becca, fancy you being here.

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RE:
Hello Julian. As a rider of a Suzuki 500 I do not feel that you are competent to comment on the riding skills needed for a pile of shite like a BSA Bantam! :)

At least it was British Shite! I once struggled to help my pal get the clutch back together in a Beezer Bantam. It exploded across the workshop. put me off a bit.

I have no bike licence. I was riding the Suzy illegally. And me a teacher!

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Hi Neil, Yes. There are a lot of people saying this, this week. In most cases the new pic takes time to losd or in your case only apears in some areas of the site. It is being looked at. Win

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Hi Andy

me n' mine are all good, thanks. And yourself? :-p

Comment is about Andy N (poet profile)

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Thanks for your comments, Dave. That crows line gave me so much trouble - and I still don't like it!

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Hi Again, Many thanks. Win

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Hi Neil. Would you mind replacing the info in your biog and samples sections of your profile please. Many thanks, Win

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Hello Lynn, much appreciate your comments on 'Passing Clouds' and have updated that page with more info. CHEERS.

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Hi Cynthia 'Passing Clouds' very much appreciate your comments on this which have been used to modify the stanza in question. Have updated the blog also to provide more detail should you care to revisit at some time. CHEERS.

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Oops! Blowing me cover already!

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Now you've got me flummoxed, Richie/Martin!

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Thanks John for your comment on'Obsolete Airline Beverage'. Just read 'Doing It Twice' and - I'm in the library's quiet study section - snorted at the resolution. Naughty man!

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Hi J.C. - thanks for the reply. It seems
fashionable/P.C. these days to knock "England"
and the "English" and it is even more annoying
that the words are invariably absent from any official forms we are continually having to fill in. Maybe it's all part of offical policy to absorb us into some great multi-mass
called "British". So much easier for today's politicians to control and dominate. I wonder
what the bards and poets of another England
would have said about that? It's a fair bet
that today's politicos would never have ransomed Richard the Lion Heart and snuggled up to Prince John instead! :-)
Cheers.

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Ta very much for your comments on 'Passing Clouds'and I have added more details to my blog. Much obliged.

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Hi Cate. Big thanks for your comment on 'True Manna', glad it touched you. I spent a day of pondering and wandering, firstly in the day time, to a beautiful church in Stratton, Cornwall, where i got to explore from the top of the tower to the final cornerstone. Then returned at night with drizzle and owl calls. True Manna was the night time inspired one, the daytime one 'but first through the gate' was a little lighter. Nice to have two, daytime, nighttime, both sides of the coin. An experiment in openness. Not often i get two in one day straight out with no corrections. At least it made sense to at least one person. :D

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Hi Dave - cheers for the comment over Now and then.. It's one of those mood pieces I guess that kinda wrote it.... Hope you r k - speak soon.. A

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Hi Lynn - glad you liked 'Now and then'.. One of those pieces that says it all really and I wrote it to cheer up other half.. It's a mood thing I think.. Hope you are k - Andy Nx

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Hi Kath - cheers for the note over Now and then.. Nothing I can really add about it as it really says it all and wrote itself.

Yeah, otherwise life plods on.. Busy with job search etc. How goes you and your clan? x

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Hi Laura - thanks for the comment over Now and then.. It's likely this will get a airing once I get the book stuff out of the way really.. I'm a big fan of the last stanza too.. sort of summed things up best i guess x

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Hi Isobel;

thanks for the comment over 'Now and then'.. Not much to add to it, apart from you were spot on with what you said about it.. I wrote it cheer Cathy up who was quite down and it did the job.. See you soon somewhere at a gig hopefully but glad you enjoyed it.. x

Andy N x

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Hi David, Welcome to Write Out Loud

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Thanks for your comments on "Everybody's Gone Serfin'". Glad you enjoyed it.

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Hello MC. I take your point about the Cornish having the lengthiest claim to the mantle but even they are primarily of immigrant Celtic stock. I can't imagine there's a single person alive whose DNA goes back purely to the Beaker Man who looked out over the English Channel and said "OK. So where's the footpath gone?".

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Ha - my profile picture hasn't changed - it must be your blackberry - maybe it couldn't handle so many pixels... oh dear, time for a diet LOL x

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Thanks for your help re pic Isobel, though sadly your profile pic that I glimpsed on my Blackberry, whilst digesting your advice seems to have gone : (
Now I will never know whether yours or Winston's is the best!

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Thanks for that Isobel and also Winston for getting back to me-problem did resolve itself, but now back to old picture-hmmm. Time will tell.

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Just watch out for those little green men! :)

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Thanks for your brief and positive comment on There's an App.
Enjoyed Space Junk - I think I still have a piece of Skylab in the garage.
Dave

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