Only half joking I should think, Ann (-: I've cleaned two loos this week. What's more it was my idea (this time)!

Thanks as ever for commenting.

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well...was about being haunted when you don't believe in ghosts..Pleased you liked :)

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Thank you for your comments on my poems. Much appreciated :-)

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Hi, Thank you Andy :-)

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Bet your Ripper poem's not as downright shocking as mine!
I thought doing funny's easy for me so I thought I'd try something different.
I reckon a writer's job is to make the reader think and feel what he/she wants them to think/feel.
So I thought I'd try "shocked".

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thanks Laura for liking 'not one to be a snitch'.. :)

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thanks Jeff for your kind comment on visitation..much aprreciate :)

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thanks Laura (no flannel) xx

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Might not put my Jack the Ripper poem on for a while as my latest was a bit raunchy - won't want to be getting a reputation!

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Thanks Greg (Infarcation) I agree with the suggested improvement and am grateful for the comment.

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Hi Laura, 'Infarction' (of the Myocardial type) my coming to grief nearly 2 decades ago at the top of Ayers Rock in Oz.

Glad you made a link with rhythm and pulse activity. Many thanks also for your suggestion which I have taken up.

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Hi Ann, many thanks for your comments on 'Etchings' your supportiveness is always appreciated.

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(Re; Etchings), I couldn't agree more Cynthia, too often we forget those time frames in which scenes are set and values of the time.

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Hi Greg, re; The Crossing Place, answer no, not yet but thanks for reminding me - will try to pop in soon.

Learned about the other life of the site from a former Surrey colleague. Best regards.

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Hi Ann.
I'm not sure if my reply to your welcome message actually got through and I would hate for anyone to think I was just being ignorant and couldn't be bothered to reply. Hence I have changed the profile pic and added a couple of other offerings via the blog.(I am only now beginning to learn how this sight works) NOW!! Off into the ether with you comment and we'll see what this electronic pigeon brings back.

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Nope, all your participles are present and correct, as are your adjectives. I'm impressed. Mine took me aaaages! I had to keep double checking heh :D

The only tiny point I would make is that those last PPs should be related to the last noun, according to the rules I've read. But as Cynthia says, it's really quite flexible.

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Eh oop Laura - I just did give it a go but my pariciples may be adjectives! Hope Cynthia will forgive me! :)

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Eh up Ann - aye, give the diamante idea a go. It's a really good exercise and had me scratching my head checking and rechecking my present participles and adjectives. I used to know all that years ago! I might have a go at a few more actually, now that I've worked out an easier way to proceed than the last few days of head-scratchin! :D

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Thanks for your comments on For My Brother, Dave. And good luck for the new season!

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Cheers a lot Jeff(re Denied)grateful but not dead just yet-lol! Stef

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Liking the profile pic Win!
Should be knocking about again really soon, oh and had a chat with Chris from White Ribbon and he wants us to think about more poems again if we like :)
Meri

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Cheers Alison, have a great time at Kendal the anticipation of the constipation, theres a poem in there somewhere!

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Hi Greg Good to hook up again and thanks for the comment. I've been a bit tied up on other fronts recently and not writing much. Is Steve just be an observer these days? I don't seem to be able to contact him via WOL.

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Eh up chuck - thanks for your perceptive comment on Invocation :)

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Loved the extract from your Glastonbury poem. My feelings exactly! I'm off to Kendal Calling this weekend and am somewhat dreading the toilets and anticipating the constipation ...

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Mentally preparing myself for Kendal Calling festival this coming weekend! I was at a rather more civilised festival last weekend held at Hartington YHA and even queuing for the indoor cubicles reminded me of the full horrors awaiting me!

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I really don't know how to expand on that line. I just jotted it down like that. In court one day a dad called his daughter a whore as they were walking out and it shocked me to the core. I wanted to capture as much of that shock as possible in the poem. I have no idea why he called her that, so I just tried to write a story around it.

What would you do to it? I really don't know where to go with it and still keep that shocking edge to it, I almost wanted it offensive, I was offended when I heard it.

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Greg,
Only just noticed.
You left me a comment - Wigan or Blackpool?
I think the answer is Blackburn. I assume it was about my team's relegation prospects. Doesn't look good for the coming season though.
Dave

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Good evening John.
put that whisky down
and please accept my thanks for commenting on
'Morbid Disturbance'

Stef.

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Hi Cynthia, re; 'Etchings', perhaps I confused the issue here, under the class system my forebears would have received pittances for a salary, whereas the posh types lived high life styles at the expense of others. That was the point I was trying to make perhaps not too successfully I think and without a focus on the cost of a grave in particular. Many thanks for your comments.

Many thanks for your comments also on Claws, Gondwanaland, Solitary and Vespula Vulgaris about which I have replied individually.

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Hi Laura, thanks indeed for commenting on 'What the Master Saw'. I think the fetish went beyond him just liking stale working class women - Cullwick saw herself very much in the role of slave (a kind of low grade S&M) and she literally liked licking his boots.

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Cheers Laura.

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Thanks for your comments Ann.

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Thanks for commenting Dave. I read your piece on the walk with asylum seekers, you do yourself a disservice. It is important that you have used your considerable skill as a writer to write against the grain, so to speak, and give an insight into what it means to be an asylum seeker. Too many people believe the crap churned out in the tabloid press.

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Thanks Ann for comment on Invocation. Can't possibly tell you what happened to the blacksmith's baby daughter. Too grim. ;)

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Hi Steve and welcome to WOL. The Dead Man Speaks to his Daughter, lovely, very moving, made me think of my dad. Thank you.

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Howya Andy? Thanks for all your comments man, always like to read them and no none of me stuff is published or anything. But I'll keep trying anyway.

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Thank you for your kind words, Andy. It was a pleasure to meet you and everyone at Guitar and Verse; I've been made to feel very welcome at both G'nV and WOL so I'd love to perform at Butterflies again if you'll have me!

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John - thanks for commenting on "The Fairies in the Backs".
I assume, like me, you played Union. I always thought it a hard game but having more recently watched League a lot at local dog-shit pitch level it's nothing! League is just plain dirty.
When I was a student at Durham we played a lot of the local teams, all keen to give the poncy students a bit of a "welcome". I recollect a couple of Railwaymen's teams from Darlington were a bit feisty!

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Thanks for your comment on Whitechapel Ladies. The first part is a bit like the old folk tune Adeiu Spanish Ladies, which just popped into my head. The chorus is just a bit of a mess trying to fit in all the names. I wanted to pay tribute to some of the women murdered over the years, from Jack the Ripper victims, Yorkshire Ripper victims, the Soham girls, Suffolk Strangler victims, Milly Dowler, Jill Dando and Suzy Lamplugh.

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Thanks for your thoughts on "The Ghost of White Hart Lane". It's an old post but gets me on the scoresheet until I do something new on the theme.
I have the deepest respect for anyone who knows what their team is going to win at the atart of each season. In Bolton and Tottenham's case - nothing! Everton too - (Dave Bradley blogged).
Deep respect to a fellow sufferer.

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Dave
Thanks for your thoughts on "The Ghost of White Hart Lane". It's an old post, but it put me on for the "Ghost" theme until I did something new. (Alison has widened it to goblins and fairies etc so I've just blogged "The Fairies in the Backs" - a bit of a stretch, I know!).
I too am old enough to have seen John White but don't know if I did. I saw Spurs a couple of times in the early 60's at Forest (I'm from Nottingham originallY). He might have played.
Anyway, glad you enjoyed it.

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Hi Isobel;

thanks for the comment over Ticket to Ride.

Glad you like it.

Must admit, it's one of my more recent favourites, but as always when I blog I was worried people wouldn't get what I was writing about.. lol

Hope you are good and see you soon (I'm off the scene now for a few months - having a well deserved break)

Cheers

Andy N x

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Hi Laura;

Thanks for the comment over 'Ticket to Ride'. I'll defo have to amend the typo as I am a bugger for them.

Severed Sun actually began off as a typo which I sorta liked and stuck with. You are dead right about the context of the piece.

See you Soon (I'm resting until September / October from properly performing)

Andy N x

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Hi Jeff - thanks for the comments over Ticket to Ride... As stated somewhere else, this was a poem that was a pleasure to write and hopefully didn't leave you in too much of a mystery! lol

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Thankyou Mark for finding something within my poem Sandcastles..much appreciated :))

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hi Isobel...mmm was in a soppy mood.. :))

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Many thanks Laura for taking time with Sandcastles...oh those times when small children can play all day...thanks again Laura :)

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John...thanks for leaving a comment on Sandcastles...yes summers were endless and Christmas never came around...now there seems to be two Christmases and summer has gone on vacation lol

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