Hi Cynthia - thanks for the comment over 'lost shadows' there was a typo on the last line where servants should have been said instead of the second shadows.. must have been more tired than i originally realised when i blogged it before.. oops... but anyway, glad you liked it.. i wrote it under workshop conditions so it was wrote pretty quickly, and considering i am delighted with the end results.. hope you are good x

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Hello Greg
Thanks for the comments on Betty's. You're right about Harrogate. I think it was the original. There are about 5 now though, with 2 in York. You're also right about the genteel ambience. I imagine Betty's to be rather like the old Lyons tea houses - not that I remember them of course!

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Welcome to WOL from me, too, Kat. You will like this site. I look forward to sharing your work.

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Hi Kat, Welcome to WOL. Hope you like what you find on here. Winston

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thank you dearest Annie
(soft closure) xx

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Diolch, Dave, am eich sylwadau caredig.x

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thank you Greg, yes, thinking about that little bit of heaven on earth that is a bluebell wood here in the Dales did help. I took mum some bluebells from the garden into hospital but don't think she was able to see them as she wasn't really conscious of much but who knows? maybe the scent of them reached her, i hope so. I like that tune very much too, i used to play it on the flute (an old wooden one ala Matt Molloy style)thanks again,Debx

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Hey Cynthia,

Just to say 'Hi I'm back'.

I'll be browsing through your poetry shortly, no doubt (although - I'm feeling the dissertation pressure at the moment, roll on 9th of May).

All the best.

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thank you Isobel. xxx

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Hi Ann - re: Three Reflections - many thanks for commenting and so glad you enjoyed the read x

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Your comments on Ash Friday houghts much appreciated Lynn - many thanks

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Hi John, thanks for kind comments on "I Hear You". I didn't plan to do an abab to start with, but it somehow turned out that way! Lynn x

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Thanks - I did A level geology - does it show ?? :)

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Thanks for the feedback, Greg. I love that photo and have now discovered lots more by Willi Ronis. He's great and with a bit of luck I might possibly be able to do some more. He's got one called 'La Nue Provencale' which I really like as well. Thanks again for the article on WOL's news page.

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Hi Alan. Welcome to Write out Loud. I also like the sound of being a medieval troubador but it is far more likely I was a pig farmer or such like! Hope you enjoy exploring the site. Winston

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Hi Larissa, thank you so much for lovely comments on "I hear you", and for all the other nice things you have said. I agree it is lovely to meet like minded people on a site like this, and being from different countries can just make it more interesting, I think.
Wow, very impressed with your website, didn't realise you teach Russian. It looks a great thing to be doing, and as I say, the website looks really impressive. Love Lynn xx

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Father Wilde says thank you my child(re gottle'o'geer)xx

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Hello,dear Lynn! Thank you so much for all your kind words and your comment on "Happy Birthday!' My life experience today and knowledge of life tells me who is who. I am really pleased to meet such a nice person like you. It looks as we are the same age and ....though we are from different countries, as women we can understand each other. It's really pleasant.
Now I would like you to do me a favor and visit my site
http://www.learninglanguagesl.jimdo.com

With love and warmest wishes, Larisa

PS Please, let me know about the site

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Thanks - that was just a bit of fun - it helps to see the funny side of shitty experiences - I do it all the time... x

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I very much liked your Yeung Sing poem - all that verbal twisting and turning within the lines. I think you may have blown your chances of being hired by their marketing team, though...

R x

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Hi Andy,
Glad you're well! Thanks once again for your very kind comments on time-riding. Much appreciated xx

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Hi Andy. Many thanks for your remarks on 'Portrait of a Woman' appreciated. Win x

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Laura
Glad you liked Happy Birthday, Dave.
He cried (I did too!)

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Hi Tom, 'Story' and Sappho. Win x

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Awww - thanks for using my piccie John. Who was that other geeser trying to hog my limelight? If I remember rightly that was the slam last year - one of the best nights ever. It's hard to pick with the Tudor though - so many great nights... Even on a flat month, it's ten coats of paint better than any other venue. I think having a proper stage and sound system helps - also the room not too big/too small and the atmoshere that buzzes from the rest of the place. And of course you can't forget the no nonsense, tell it like it is, unpretentious poets that go there...

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Great idea! And a super-sexy slick photo! Wigan WOL is the best! xxx

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Thank you very much Andy, for your comments on
'Stranger in a strange land'...
I am familiar with the plot summary of the novel by Robert A. Heinlein, but have never read it - sounds very intriguing though.

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I thought as much you minx! Your artist friend is very talented indeed. The eyes have it though. The eyes are the mirror to the soul - they never age either. I'd love to make your acquaintance if you ever take to the stage at the Tudor. x

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Hello Isobel

Thanks for the comments. Much appreciated. I'd been reading the discussion about poets keeping their photos up-to-date, and felt compelled to act upon it. Blame my artist friend for apparent grubbiness - he does put some odd colours into those skin-tones of his.

Nice to hear from you. I hope to return to Wigan one day, if Mr Togher will have me back.

R x

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Hi Greg - Re; Old Brookwood Hospital - and not just Hilary whatshername - even I live on part of the old grounds though probably on a part where they housed the pig farms before the top-soil was removed and building began - thanks for commenting.

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Hello, Jeff!
My English is not better than yours and can't be. There are some things in the language that I know for sure, but... I still make a lot of grammar mistakes. My oral speech is just horrible because I have no practice. My written speech is a little bit better as I have more time to think. But..., anyway... Could you do me a favor and have a look at my site?
http://www.learninglanguagesl.jimdo.com
It sometimes seems to me that I am like a computer - translate from Russian into English, but...at the same time my poems I write in English when I think in English.
With warmest wishes, Larisa

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it was written a long long time ago & not directed at anyone in particular, but of course, it is indeed about CC.
The button nose boy was a child from his own childhood - without spoiling the book, just read 57-60 (if you want, that is )

http://www.wattpad.com/77040-a-seperate-reality-carlos-castaneda?p=57

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Hi - no, but I'll have a look then... I'd read some of Maya Angelou's stuff that you mentioned though - great writer.

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You're looking a bit grubbier Rachel - maybe you just got back from Glastonbury...

I enjoyed reading your profile poems - they are very wacky and clever.

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If the carlos book you were reading was the first - the Teachings of DJ, then, yes, the last part is shite - but it was not meant to be entertainment, just a write-up of a PhD dissertation, so it included all the boring stuff at the end. His second - A Separate Reality - is one of the best IMHO. They really did (utterly) change me + my life... but if it's not your thing...
Another "must read" is "I'm OK, You're OK" by T. Harris, which I know sounds like typical Aymerican psycho-babble bullshit, but is (IMHO) nothing short of amazing. In a nutshell it's all about how peoples minds work & how to make your own life & relationships better by understanding this stuff (ie how your own psyche and that of other folks all works = we are not all the same)- another life-altering book. just my 2 cents tho !

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Hi Ann - re: Combustion, I was part of an investigative team where some forensic knowledge was a prerequisite - glad you liked the poem and thanks for commenting x

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It is an interesting question whether blogs are finished work, or work in progress. Obviously they are whatever you want them to be, but I wonder how others view them?
I have posted a discussion about this: http://www.writeoutloud.net/public/newsgroupview.php?NewsThreadsID=1229
cheers

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Thanks for comment on Ohrwurm Dave - yes, 'earworm' is a loan translation from the German ohrwurm, so an interesting word all on its own, never mind the poem itself. The poem seems to be introducing earworms all over however - I did it to myself last night and was Hawaii Five-Oing all bloody night.

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Hi Laura - thanks for commenting on Combustion and good luck to you if you do decide to go for a career change - and yes I did watch Six Feet Under quite compelling viewing I thought and ground breaking entertainment - I tried not to miss an episode x

Hi Laura - re: Combustion again, yes there were definitely some hiccups in the series SFU like the woman who after a post mortem supposedly died of choking and yet was shown on TV stretched out on the slab without any cut marks but it was grand series in spite of that

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thanks for the comments (a kind of heaven).I wrote this about 2-3 yrs ago but it took me a while to decide if it was "worthy" of posting - funny - folks seem to like it !- there's no accounting for taste... I like it, but I didn't think most would "get it". Ta. B.
BTW - how's it going with carlos ? are you bored with it yet? or has it blown your mind like me??

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Hi-thanks for the comments (a kind of heaven).
I wrote this about 2-3 yrs ago but it took me a while to decide if it was "worthy" of posting - funny - folks seem to like it !
- there's no accounting for taste... I like it, but I didn't think most would "get it". Ta. B

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thanks for the comments (a kind of heaven).
I wrote this about 2-3 yrs ago but it took me a while to decide if it was "worthy" of posting - funny - folks seem to like it !
- there's no accounting for taste... I like it, but I didn't think most would "get it". Ta. B

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I love signing in to see you've posted a comment on something I've done. I really makes my day.

My Sunday editing really has cut down on a the quantity of material I have been coming up with. I don't write anything new at all on Sundays, and only work on two poems. As you can see, I went from posting about a poem every other day on here to see what you guys think to posting about one a week. I don't think they went over very well though, no one made any comments on them. Still, I'm going to try to keep reserving my Sundays for just one or two poems and really try to squeeze everything I can out of them.

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Thanks for the comment John, I'm stopping the cigs at the moment and your mate is right!!

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Thanks for putting up your words Oliver. Winston

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Hi Andy, thanks for your comments on geese. My advice. Stay away from that place (Only at that time though) Win ;-)

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Hey, just wanted to thank you for your comment. much appreciated x

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re melancholy. i shall rephrase...'us of undetermined gender persuasion' have more in common than we know...internal conflict and debate being most likely denominator. better?

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Thanx Larisa, will have to do that! I've never been there or Ukraine, but know someone of Ukranian decent very well lol. I've heard Odessa is a lovely place and I'm sure the girls are too. I've been to the Gambia, but don't know any Gambian women as well. I wasn't comparing the Ukranian girls in preference to other eastern countries, all very nice, but (your fave word lol) will take your word for it. I'm glad you approve of my use of 'the', thought I had cocked it up! Your English is better than mine! Thanks Jeff X

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