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Greg Freeman

Thu 5th Aug 2021 17:11

Clever work, Julie.

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Krishna

Thu 5th Aug 2021 17:01

? same here

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julie callaghan

Thu 5th Aug 2021 10:35

Thanks for the like Greg.

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julie callaghan

Thu 5th Aug 2021 10:33

?You are welcome Leon.
Thanks for the like Tommy.

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tommyfazz@yahoo.com

Thu 5th Aug 2021 10:17

Julie
The number of posts (verse) that are attributed to "favourite" people or deity, are in the thousands.
??✅

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Thu 5th Aug 2021 10:09

Thanks for the namecheck.

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julie callaghan

Thu 5th Aug 2021 08:31

I wrote this for Dr Amir Khan.
I regularly use his photos and videos as inspiration for my daily blog. This is not meant as an advertisement it’s just what I chose to write about today after seeing his post on Twitter.

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julie callaghan

Thu 5th Aug 2021 08:28

Thanks for the likes Greg, Holden and both Stephens.

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Wed 4th Aug 2021 21:53

Ha I like them green and ripe and firm ha x ?

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Wed 4th Aug 2021 21:03

Neil, IMO they are doing it
1. Because they can
2. To try to out-do each other
3. To make money from rich space tourists.

There is nothing out there, at least not within touching distance. We're on our own.

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Neil West

Wed 4th Aug 2021 20:23

Hi Stephen, I agree there is no planet B but the space race is definitely on. It might be a distraction from our very real problems here on Earth but would all these billionaires invest in something if they didn't think there was something in it? What do they know that we don't? maybe you're right and they're just the first rats off the sinking ship ?

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Neil West

Wed 4th Aug 2021 19:00

Thank you john, the curry bit at least is true ?

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Neil West

Wed 4th Aug 2021 18:58

Thank you Stephen, just wish I was musical and could post it as an audio file, just have to imagine... duh duh duh duh duh!

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Stephen Gospage

Wed 4th Aug 2021 17:37

Fun and faintly disturbing.

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Stephen Gospage

Wed 4th Aug 2021 17:30

Thanks to Holden, Stephen and Leon for the likes.

I suppose the idea of this poem is that even rich billionaires can't escape the climate crisis which many of them have helped to create. The idea that money can buy you some extraterrestrial safe haven is just a mirage. There is no Planet B, or even space station B. They will have to deal with the problem down here, like the rest of us.

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John Coopey

Wed 4th Aug 2021 16:43

Quite so, MC. I had the idea of compiling one of those I-Spy books for kids for landmarks along every motorway. But I suppose a lot of them like Markham Colliery near Chesterfield would not exist now. And the replacement industrial warehouses look pretty much the same and, in any event, don’t have the same kind of romantic back-story.
The wagons are still there, Greg, although I suppose the “chicks” named on them will be in their 60’s now; it’s drivers there’s a shortage of.

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tommyfazz@yahoo.com

Wed 4th Aug 2021 14:41

Thanks Keith for your comment re "In Ancient Ruin"
You are generous in your words.

Tommy

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M.C. Newberry

Wed 4th Aug 2021 14:35

A stimulating treatise to time and its place in our lives. We are
all servants of its inflexible input and our best interest is served
by learning from what has gone before and doing what we hope
is worthwhile in the future.

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Holden Moncrieff

Wed 4th Aug 2021 14:24

Thank you very much for the comment, Stephen! ?

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M.C. Newberry

Wed 4th Aug 2021 14:23

Just to think...I could have given Ian Allen's loco spotters a run for
their money by starting a "Spot the Pickfords" removal lorries
craze on those pre-motorway days of my youth! ?

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Greg Freeman

Wed 4th Aug 2021 13:51

And more difficult to spot these days, alas.

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Greg Freeman

Wed 4th Aug 2021 13:48

Each to their taste! I will only eat them when they have a few brown spots on them.

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John Coopey

Wed 4th Aug 2021 13:06

Thanks for your thoughts, Stephens A and G. And for the Like, Holden.

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Laura Taylor

Wed 4th Aug 2021 12:53

Why thank you Stephen

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Stephen Gospage

Wed 4th Aug 2021 09:11

Good point, Holden, and the poem inspires a lot of thought. On balance, though, maybe the great uncertainty is the best part of life.

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Stephen Gospage

Wed 4th Aug 2021 09:01

A really fine piece, Laura.

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Stephen Atkinson

Wed 4th Aug 2021 08:55

They're like the buses of the motorway, John, all over the place! People bip their horns & take photos...? I don't get it, they're hairy arsed lorry drivers taking shit to places??

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Stephen Gospage

Wed 4th Aug 2021 08:53

It's true, they get to the strangest places.

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Stephen Gospage

Wed 4th Aug 2021 08:46

Very enjoyable. Daleks are always good fun, at a distance at least.

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julie callaghan

Wed 4th Aug 2021 07:15

Thank you Stephen A and Stephen G. So sad watching these scenes, made even worse knowing I probably won’t get there for quite some time. Missing my home from home.

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julie callaghan

Wed 4th Aug 2021 07:14

Thanks for the likes Holden, Stephen A, KJ and Laura. Thank you also for the kind comments.

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kJ Walker

Wed 4th Aug 2021 07:07

Thanks John
It's a bit different from Grindstone low because it's in the first person and from a child's perspective.
I don't think that there is a well spoken this month, and that we will resume in September. But check, I'd hate to misinform you.

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Jason Bayliss

Wed 4th Aug 2021 06:17

Thanks Keith, I'd love to be a good journal writer, and I have tried, but I lack the organisation and discipline. But in respect of looking back, I too almost never do. It's always struck me that life is a bit like a good book or even movie, where we all know roughly what the end will be, but the plot is so well written that we're compelled to read it anyway. It is all about the narrative that we choose to write for ourselves every day, just by living and making choices. So glad it resonated with you my friend.

J. x

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John Coopey

Wed 4th Aug 2021 00:23

I wish I'd written this, Stephen.
What the hell! I'll tell folks I did.

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John Coopey

Wed 4th Aug 2021 00:16

I saw this earlier today on FB, Kev. Another pearler. But a little different from your Grimstone Low stable. What I liked about it especially was that it was written as a child would write it.
Are we on for Thursday next week to perform in the flesh?

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John Coopey

Wed 4th Aug 2021 00:04

Marvellous stuff, Neil.

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raypool

Tue 3rd Aug 2021 22:41

Enchanting in the gentle style of your writing as I recall it on other occasions, sadly too infrequent - mood and feeling personified Tom.

Ray

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Seth

Tue 3rd Aug 2021 20:00

Thank you again Laura, that's very kind.

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Seth

Tue 3rd Aug 2021 19:59

Thank you Laura for such wonderful feedback

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Stephen Gospage

Tue 3rd Aug 2021 17:53

Many thanks to Nigel, KJ, Julie, Stephen, Holden and Pete for reading this poem and liking it.

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Stephen Gospage

Tue 3rd Aug 2021 17:50

Yes. Keep walking!

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Tue 3rd Aug 2021 17:34

I hardly wear one now. I hate the bloody things xx course I wear them at the hospital and drs but not in shops anymore didn't think they worked anyway xx

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keith jeffries

Tue 3rd Aug 2021 17:27

Jason,

There are some poems which speak to the individual in direct and personal ways which the author/poet cannot be aware of . This poem speaks to me in such a way as I have for many years kept a daily journal. For me it encapsulates a great deal of what I have written and now have in mind to write. An intriguing poem. Strangely enough I never re read what I have written in the years that are past.

Thank you for this

Keith

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Laura Taylor

Tue 3rd Aug 2021 16:31

We've got a few of those in our local park. I love them! Nice one for writing about the wee things!

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Laura Taylor

Tue 3rd Aug 2021 16:30

Can't believe no one is commenting on your work. It's excellent.

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Laura Taylor

Tue 3rd Aug 2021 16:29

Ooo I like this. Sonically lovely, deep, dark, some lush ambiguity. Yeh, nice one!

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Stephen Atkinson

Tue 3rd Aug 2021 13:34

M.C. I love that quote ?. And thanks for taking the time to read & comment

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M.C. Newberry

Tue 3rd Aug 2021 12:33

Indeed. The miracles of small pleasures that ease the mind and
give living that extra zest. We tend to overlook them in the
frenetic rush that we have imposed upon our existence.

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d.knape

Tue 3rd Aug 2021 11:15

While all our other rights
have been taken away by the Chinese Virus
you still have the right to walk!
Fundamental-
like breathing!

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kJ Walker

Tue 3rd Aug 2021 07:51

Really liked this one.
Someone recently released a Muscovy duck on a local pond (wings clipped so it couldn't fly away) and the local residents were up in arms.
I know what you mean about being ugly.

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