Thanks for your comment on MY CV John. I think I did feel like that for a short while after I retired but not any more I'm far too busy.

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Thank you for leaving me a comment Andy x

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Thank you Anne for that lovely welcome to WOL, I feel at home now!Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis really moved me (and my magician)
Your surname is amazing!x

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'lo Andy - cheers for comment on Peace and Quiet. Yeh, last line isn't really meant to 'fit in' as such, it's more of a bemused final statement. That kind of feeling you get when you get battered for doing something your parents wanted you to do in the first place!

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Hehe - yup, you're learning alright ;)

My other favourite venue is the Butterflies bar in Bolton. Jeff Dawson, aka Jefferama, runs two brilliant nights there - a WOL night, and another called Guitar N Verse. Well worth getting along to either or both if you can. I don't make it along there as often as I'd like cos I live in St Helens and I'm really bloody idle ;) It's a similar sort of 'vibe' though, and Jeff is a top compere!

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Only naughty in my head, Isabel.
And anyway, I can't walk in heels that high.

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Hello Cate,
Thanks for your thoughts on "Boots".
I only ever get to be naughty in my head these days!

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OI!Dye! put that porno mag down and getcha sweet cheeks back into Bloggington Town! hope yer ok-Stef.xx

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hey,
ta muchly chuck.
hope you're well x

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Hi Re: Gondwanaland - who knows for sure when earth will blow up with the sun and thus decide the fate of man as boffins predict. Then whoosh obliteration unless of course representatives of mankind manage to voyage into the unexplored beyond and repopulate somewhere else. Hope my toes are well turned up by then. Much obliged for the comments.

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is the hat a left-over prop from the Onedin line...Cap'n? lux kooooool! Stef..xx

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Which is your other favourite venue. thanks for the top tip, see I'm learning!

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thanks Annie xx (her dream)

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Hi! Welcome to WOL! I used to have a fully functioning magician - aren't they great! I like your poem very much! xx

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Aha - so this is where you replied!

Top tip of the day - if you reply on a profile, make it on the profile of the person you are replying to otherwise we won't get an email notification of your reply :)

The Tudor is one of my two favourite venues actually - love the atmosphere in there!

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Thanks John (Whitechapel Ladies). I wrote another poem on this theme ages ago but too felt it a bit ott to post. But John, I will if you will! Maybe!

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Hi Cate - many thanks for your comments on Solitary - can see what you mean about Wordsworth - best regards

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Thanks for your comments on "No Better Ending".
Yes the audio wording is better - I'll remember it if I perform it.
As for me doing hilarious - Piggies wasn't meant to be hilarious, it was.....
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Hi Francesca. Welcome to WOL. Hope you enjoy exploring all the different aspects of the site, Winston

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Hi Neil , A belated welcome to the site, good to see you are getting stuck in. Winston (Admin)

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Hi Edwyna, Welcome to WOL . Hope to see you at Butterflies at some point. Winston

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I disagree about the romance of British road names, John. The days of cultural imperialism are over! I think it's all to do with the associations they evoke. The A19 means something to me because I spent a year driving along it every working day between York and Selby. And north of York it took you towards the North York Moors, and further on, up to the north-east. It's true I'm a southerner who finds the north very alluring. On the whole. Down south, someone's written a book about the A303. I must look it up on Amazon at once ...

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I don't think bonfires are blokey at all. They can be girly too! My friend and I had a fab bonfire last year - we burnt a whole caravan (on purpose I hasten to add). Haven't had so much fun in ages!

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Did it involve Darren Thomas and a biro? I saw that by chance yesterday - I promise I havn't been up all night scouring WOL!

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Hi Ann,

re photo captions; I did post one for a pic in the "gallery" section. I'll buy you a pasty if you can find it! ;)

Regards,

A.E. X

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Hello Anthony.
Thanks for your comments on "No Better Ending". Glad you liked it. There is something wonderfully evocative about wood-smoke.
As for the gripped us = eucalyptus rhyme: the eucalyptus was genuine (I really was burning it); it was the "gripped us" rhyme which needed a bit of knocking in!

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Thanks for your thoughts on "No Better Ending". You're right about how evocative wood-smoke (and smudge fires) are.

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Thanks for your thoughts on "No Better Ending".
I know what you mean about inserting "the A19". I always envy the Americans who can get away with introducing San Fransisco or New York or Chattanooga or Route 66 in a song and it's cool. Not the same romance about Doncaster or the A19.

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Wotcha Foxy.
Glad you enjoyed "No Better Ending". There's something magical (and blokey) about a fire.

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Thanks for the comments on Costa Coffee, Richard. I hope you got those coffees for the Japanese kids on expenses otherwise you'd need a mortgage!

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Hello Ann of Cornwall : ) thank you for your kind comments on Svātantrya. I've been away from the site for a while but am happy to see you're still here being so prolific..your love of language shines through all your work..seems to flow from you like a spring : )xx

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hola Laura : ) thank you for reading Svātantrya and your kind comments on it...you summed up the person it was about very accurately;
"doesn't need to flaunt, or abuse.....just IS."
they left an imprint on my memory like people like that seem to do...
thanks again Laura xx

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The Knight and Great Protector.......there's a novel there somewhere i'm sure, Alan the Great!!

Thank you x

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Hi John,

Thanks again for taking time out to comment on my latest. :-)

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Hi Ann. "Field boundaries". Beautiful, melancholic, thoughtful, atmospheric a wonderfully crafted poem.

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Hi Laura. Yes it was my first night at The Tudor, I really enjoyed it, what a great pub.

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Awww, well thank you darlin. I just HAD to write something about the place. And yeh - agree re the communication, but it's the actual punters who communicate, and they ARE different in many ways to a lot of the rest of society. That's one of the reasons I go as often as I can - to plug into that branch of humanity that holds the same beliefs, attitudes, values, morality even, as me. It's a place of peace, love, and unity...not something based on commercial gain, or hierarchy, or arbitrary illogical and dangerous laws...and we LOVE IT! :D

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Howdy Neil - why thank ya! Good night all round last night wasn't it? I've not seen you before in the Tudor - have you only just joined WOL?

I loved your 'Simon Armitage Lives in Stockport' poem - cracked me up :D

Hope to see you there again next month!

Take care x

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yeah but you kinda managed to write the poem i have had stuck in my head for three years :) all about firepits , pendle and how people communicate at a different level in a festival , that if we could bring into everyday society would make it richer for us all. everyone is a friend until they prove they are not worthy

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Hello lovely - aye, well you know the magic of Beat-Herder anyway doncha? Shame you weren't there this year - truly magnificent it was.

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That would be gin for me darling...

Glad you like the piccie. Was listening to Rachel Bond perform at the time. Didn't think I'd like the photo much till I saw that it was out of focus and over exposed LOL xx

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Hi Tom

thx for comments on Solar Lentigo, I think you have highlighted the best bit. x

H

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Thanks Ann x

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You are right about the last line. I knew it at the time but i think i just couldn't be bothered to change it lol
Thanks for commenting xx

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Is your "new" photo your "Hmm, now where DID I put that vodka?" look?

Very pensive . . . :)

A.E. x

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Hi Anthony,

Thanks so much for your kind words about my poems. Just joined the site so it was a nice welcome! The collection they're taken from, 'In the Library of Lost Objects' has just been published. Great to have the work out there finally!

I very much enjoyed your poems also, particularly 'Visiting Neil.'

Good lucjk with your work and talk again I'm sure.

Noel

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Thanks for your kind comment Kate. You make me laugh and that's good, very good. Thanks.

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Neil
I revisited Ex Tenebis Lux after your comments. and enjoyed it all the more the second time round.
I particularly enjoyed the faithful rhythm and I am always impressed by poets who can manage abab rhyming structures especially in such short syllabic constraints.
I suspect you know what you're doing at this poetry lark!

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Hi John, I stand corrected, perhaps the title should be E Tenebris Lux - Out of Darkness Light? School boy error! It's a bit wordy but I think the sense I wanted to convey comes from 'In presentia of obscurum, illic vadum exsisto lux lucis' or 'In the presence of darkness, there shall be light'. The poem concerns itself with an ancient evil awakening - what do you think?

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