Hi Lynn.

as always,we are grateful
for your kindness
to us both
in particular on this occasion
for comments on 'Wife'

Tricia and I send you
loadsa...xxxxxxxxxxxx

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Hi Ann your comments on 'The Home' are fine by me!

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Hello John (Townships) many thanks for commenting in your positive way.

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This gut-fat-prick-fat-gut-fat-prick thing - shouldn't we all be recycling more?

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It's alright for me to be a Dirty Berty - I'm a bloke! (just kidding).

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Shame, Foxy?
I remember shame.
It came alongside guilt and puberty.

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Re: Townships, thanks very much Laura, I know people have very strong views about RSA and I did attempt something similar to this a while back but varied the theme because I am leading a group on African poetry in October. Your kind endorsement has more value than you may have realised.

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Hello Andy :)

thanks for taking your time with my Joan..

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Ha ha Ann nice take on my poem...Nev (next door neighbour) cannot start his car without revving it up for about ten minutes..honestly he drives me potty at times!

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hiya Isobel..interesting take on my poem Joan..tis difficult sometimes to format a poem that has not got two people in it but two parallel thought lines going on..

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Thx for the feedback on my latest Isobel appreciated X

Hope things are good.

Missed 3 Tudors in a row with differing problems one way or another...grrr. If the M58 still exists I wont miss next months lol.

My Best

Chris

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Thx for the feedback on my latest Laura- appreciated X

Hopefully catch ya at the next Wigan.

My Best

Chris

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Hi Lynn, thanks for commenting on 'There Be Fairies' - I always enjoy those little flights of fancy that we can employ while writing for children (of all ages). :)

Best wishes, Dave

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Hey, cheers Andy me love for your comment on Gordon, much appreciated :) Hope you're feeling on the up now mate, take care x

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i think we should have a poem in an anthology do. i think its better that your works going out like that. you can see its standard in relation to the other work. I spose online books are all the thing these days but it proves to me how new writers have all the fresh talent x well done x
ps i love that its got something to do with me...ah my young protege miss taylor is doing so well...particularly as sometimes you cant see why youre reading, what is the point. when your on stage and the lights in your eyes and its a circus. Im so glad i got the message of that poem through. makes it all worthwhile. i may have said this aready but i am now ready to retire ;)

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Thanks Neil - chuffed that you think so :) Hopefully see you at the next Tudor?

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Thanks Isobel for the notes on me profile and No One Called You...

You know, Biting the Bullet wasn't saucy at all. It really wasn't! But it proper tickles me that you can find such a different meaning in it than my original :D :D I was gobsmacked that one was chosen - but the publisher specialises in 'funny', and as you know, I don't DO funny very much! :D

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Thanks Anne!! Am proper chuffed :D :D

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thats great laura, your poetry is quality and your a great example for new comers to the art.

are you having a book launch do?

great great news xx

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Thanks for commenting Ann and good luck with The Poetry Mine.

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Great! Well done you!xx

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You are rapidly becoming one of my fave poets on here (big deal maybe! - but I mean it!!)

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Well I'm totally delighted to hear that you are being published and even more so to think that it is a poem that you wrote for one of our little on line competitions. It makes it feel all the more worthwhile running them. That was a very saucy poem! x

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Cheers Laura. Now back to work! Congrats on being published, you work certainly merits it.

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Hi Cynthia. Thanks very much for your kind comments, much appreciated.
Warm regards
Neil.

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Hi Cynthia, re; 'Website' this is a much changed poem anyway so other ideas are welcomed. Please go ahead and change as you think appropriate.

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Hi, David. I've been off-line for ages. Thanks for your comment on 'Considering Colour'. The last night of the Proms featured a poem by Wendy Cade or Code, about the orchestra, a child's view approach. I appreciated that it was in line with what I was trying to do with Colour, but I thought the verse was awful. And she was COMMISSIONED! - and presumably PAID! Oh, the pain. BTW, Colour is on the news this week with surveys being conducted with a COLOUR WHEEL, to ascertain the happiness level of Mancunians according to the colour of their choice. Am I en vogue or what! I enjoy hearing from you.

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Hi Isobel - thanks for your comment over End of Summer II and I'm pleased you like it - always pleased when you comment - this one of my favourites must admit and there is certainly other pieces to come in this sequence (Currently aiming for 4 or 5)..

Hope you are good. Maybe see you soon at either Salford or Tyldesley maybe? xx

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Thanks for your comments on Bagni di Lucca, Isobel. It's true, my stuff does teeter on the edge of prose a lot of the time. This one still needs a bit more work on it.

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hi Lynn
and oops!

nearly forgot to thank you
for comments on 9/11.

thank you.

Stef&Tricia.xx

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Thanks for your comments on Bagni di Lucca, David. I see just above this another remark from me, about your trip to Australia. Maybe your wife will win another competition soon! Very interesting point you make about the clocks in Malta. Let us know when you're down south again on the poetry circuit ...

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Hi Ann Glad you're into Strictly! Yes, Lulu looks good. I think I might be suppoorting Holly, but it will depend who is the best at dancing. I hate the 'cult of personality' and hope the GBP won't keep voting in some joker!

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Yes, I saw your fb link. I haven't watched it for a couple of seasons but I think I will this year. Summer's been such a wash-out weatherwise I can't wait for autumn now, and it seems a nice thing to watch snuggled up by the rayburn! As to credibility - my fave prog these days is Bargain Hunt. I record it to watch in the evenings when there's nothing on. (I was almost going to be on BH but I missed the phone call!) Going back to Strictly, I'm supporting Lulu - she's EVEN older than me (though she doesn't look it!) Good for her!!!

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Hi Greg - yes, I agree on both counts (Drift Reservoir)! In a way it's maybe like a sketch in a sketchbook, but you don't know if you'll ever make a proper painting of it. But I had to write something about that place. I think that with reservoirs, it's the tension that there is this great wall keeping all that weight of water in, what if it was breached? Also, what is underneath all the water, could be a submerged town, anything (though not in Drift - but maybe a cottage or two). That's why I thought those scenes in "Deliverence" were so brilliant, when the guys with the diggers are removing the coffins from the graveyard, cos a reservoir was going to fill the valley.

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Greg, it was the small matter of a syndicate trying to defraud UK banks (from the outside). Exciting days of looking over my shoulder all the time and staying in posh hotels. Got publicy commended by Judge Gerrant REES when it all came to fruition. Seems surreal now of course but looks good in the family memoirs.

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Hi Andy Thanks for the comment on Chez Maxe.

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Thanks very much for your comments on Bagni di Lucca, Andy. I wrote the notes for it on holiday just over a month ago, so maybe should have left it longer to marinate. Still not happy with the last stanza.

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Hi Ann, thanks for your comments on Bagni Di Lucca. I do think that the fifth stanza rather fades away, and I keep tweaking it every time I look at it. Work in progress!

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Hi Lynn - cheers for the comment on end of summer II , yeah - this is a little series leading into a new project for next year but am dead pleased the way they are going so far.. watch this space for more to come and will be updating Part 1 on this 2moro

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Hi Laura - cheers for the comment on end of summer II , yeah - this is a little series leading into a new project for next year but am dead pleased the way they are going so far.. watch this space for more to come and will be updating Part 1 on this 2moro

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Hi Jeff cheers for the comment on end of summer II , yeah - this is a little series leading into a new project for next year but am dead pleased the way they are going so far.. watch this space for more to come and will be updating Part 1 on this 2moro

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Hello Melanie. Glad Kizzy made you go 'Ahh..'

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Hi Ann Glad you liked 'Chez Maxe'. I posted it on WOL so that I could then link it to my Face Book page in order to celebrate the new series of STRICTLY COME DANCING. I've probably destroyed my reputation in certain circles, but I'm a real fan of it!

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Hi Ann. Thank you for responding to my comment.
I listened to your "Silly Housework" poem. It's great. I love your voice.
Being from America I don't get to here voices like yours often. My accent can best be described as slight southern. I grew up in Texas and Arkansas.
Your poem has inspired me to add a silly poem of my own. It will probably be in about a week.

Thanks
Shirley

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I wish you'd blog/post something Nikki! You write beautiful stuff!

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Evening, David. How are you? Here's you, me and Mr Black all indoors on a Saturday night. Ah well. I did Hamlet at A level, so I know all about country matters, so to speak. Although, come to think of it, when I was that age ... never mind. I think quite a few people would know the reference - I'd hope so anyway! - and so I feared italicising it maybe overdoes the double entendre. Small thing, but you're right, I don't like italics. I always take them out of copy if they'e just there for emphasis.

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Good to hear from you again,Greg. Have you been under the radar the last week or so? Thanks for comment. 'Country matters' is a double entendre (based on its first syllable) quoted from Shakespeare, so I thought it needed to be in italics - but you're the editor! I must confes thatI do get a bit confused about when or when not to use them.

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Thanks Shirley for your nice comment on my Drift Reservoir poem - I think the swan's death was accidental, maybe due to some sort of fishing line or something. Reservoirs do seem to be popular with fishermen. Perhaps I should have reported it? I didn't think of that till I read your comment.

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ty Lynn-:o)

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