John - Your flippancy in regard to the cost et al of Olympics and the hype surrounding it is truly amazing.
As for YOUR comment
''You make the comments you want to make and leave it to me to make the comments I want make.
That's fair.''
Is not that what we are doing? and why state the obvious in that regard.
Finally, you make the comments you want to make and leave it to me to make the comments I want to make.
Sure- that's fair.
Tommy

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John and as for the comment:
''Wow, tommy! It does upset you. You really had best not watch it.'' I'm staggered by your lack of awareness of this nonsense. Did you not read the post? Please argue against ANY point that I made.

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Thanks, John, for your comments on The Olympic Spirit. Good to see you back on the site. The bike race comes through our little village tomorrow, with big screen and beer tent in the local rec - biggest thing that's happened in the 30 years we've lived here!

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To all those adults who are thrilled by the Olympics.
To all those sportspeople who are on the point of hysteria over the Olympics.
To all those in charge of or likely to financially gain from the Olympics.
To all those in the media -epecially the BBC-who have become 'embedded' into the circus,
the following:

I say that the cost will not be met nor exceeded by the income. But the politicians and their cohorts will cook-da-books to make sure the figures are pleasing. You read the literature.

What income raised will be creamed off by big-business. You read the literature.

It is an unconscionable excess at any time- but in one of austerity it is an outrage. You read the literature.

Massive inconvenience to the public, especially in London. You read the literature.

The undermining of civil liberties and the handing over to private business functions of the state. You read the literature.

Who gives a toss about drug addled cheats with their sham amateurism. You read the literature.

£30,000,000,000 could supply help and facilities to very many local and national voluntary organisations that are desperate for funding and those people who are financially, emotionally and socially excluded. You read the literature.

Imagine those real sporting facilities that could be built across the 'GB' for ALL citizens, especially the young. You read the literature.

While peoples houses, cars and property are being robbed and children abused, the police are 'bobbying' it at the Olympics. You read the literature.

...and as for tourists being welcomed to the event- hundreds of people in London on short term lets are being evicted to make way for the 'wealthy' You read the literature.

Royal Navy Warships, RAF helicopters and jets, Rapier missiles and 14,000 British soldiers have been deployed (more than in Afghanistan) You read the literature.

This above is but a sample, You read the itemised bill.

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P.S. Years ago, I was enthralled by a trilogy
by the novelist Edith Pargeter (she wrote under
other names too):
The Heaven Tree
The Green Branch
The Scarlet Seed
...set in the Welsh Borders at the time of the
Norman Conquest and telling of a young stone-mason whose late father was well-regarded by a certain powerful Norman baron holding power there - and the ongoing conflict, personal
and in a wider context, between the son and the
old wolf of a baron. Ms Pargeter had a deserved reputation for her storytelling.
There are worth looking up in reprint or perhaps in a secondhand book shop or online?

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Greetings J.C. I'm obliged for the background details regarding your recent post. Cornwell seems to have done well by a period of our history barely touched upon - a sort of historical vacuum - and I can understand how attractive that can be in the hands of a good novelist. I recall his name connected with American Civil War stories too...a period that I delved into factually and at some length, once upon a time, so to speak.

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JC - in the river pageant broadcast, there was
a snippet involving a river barge and its crew
and a glimpse of the name that looked (to me)
to include the word "Pudding". Could this be
same vessel you write about in your poem?

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Hi JC - I prize the prospect of your promised
parodies (how's that for alliteration?!) - and
wonder if you also have others in mind - like
"Whole Lot Of Bakin' Going On" and "I Left My
Fart In San Francisco"??

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Hi John, not at all. It has been a magical ride upon the savaloy of your imagination. x

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Hi John.
yes, my knickers know what you mean about elastic.

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Ah I see my newly acquired yorkshire accent has fooled you.
Fancy coming to Donny without letting me know - I'd have got out my best teacup and saucer. You'd still have had to have a mug as I've only got 1 cup as you will have noticed from my poem's title - 'A Cup'
Ref. Askern pond yes you're right except it was taken with a wide angle lens off the far west of Brittany. The view would have been much nicer if that silly woman hadn't got in the way at the last minute.

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Thanks for the words about my latest song post. I suppose the tune might be most accurately described as "based upon a theme by
Kingsley Mellanby". He was sending me music on
tape and I heard something in one sample that
resulted in the tune used for "When You Walked
Into My Life".
Thanks also for the response about your school
song. Writing for a school and a new generation is indeed a noble endeavour!

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John
I really love. "Ikea" (your poem not the shop I hasten to add!)

You write brilliant poetry it is so well structured, paced and crafted, and this is absolutely hilarious.

I was looking around for a poetry group and stumbled upon write aloud and yours was the first poem I read and thus I joined.

You are a bard in its truest sense.

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Thanks for your technical comments on The Show, John, which I'm very grateful for. I plead guilty to the accusation oft levelled at managers by football fans: "You don't know what you're doing!"

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Hi John, Re Easington, glad you liked. And an added insight of someone who has 1) been down mines and 2) someone who must have confronted the desperation of these mining towns in their decline.

I would love to go down a working mine. Or should I say love to make myself go down a working mine.

Win

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J.C. Re. "Their Finest Hour".
I seem to recall that the WW2 Italian fleet suffered a similar fate (at Taranto?) but then
they were with Hitler then...before they saw
sense and went back to being the delightful,
pragmatic people we know and love.
As always...

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Hi John, Thx for your poetic reply to my Fizz Bomb poem. Stevie nicks, now there's something magical. Win X

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John,
Believe it or not that poem was the only one that ever got me the girl. Kathy was a young surgeon and a wizard with a scalpel.

YOU BET I KEPT IT IN MY BREECHES!

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Thank you for commenting on my breasts! There's one poem which would not lend itself to performance. Picture the instinctive actions if you will ...

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Hi John
re Kushagarnie
Seems a good idea to me. A versatile song eh? both skipping and lullabye. Look forward to it

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Thanks for your knowledgeable comments on Duty, John. I wasn't going to mention last Sunday. We've had a lot of luck recently. It's going to run out some time.

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Hi, John
Your information about Nelson to MC ref:-'Nelson was a Norfolk Lad' is very interesting. I didn't know you had studied the Anglo Saxon period in its own tongue. Maybe relaying your information to MC in aforementioned language was a tad rich. May we have a translation please?

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Sorry Mr Coop 'ey lad' i've been away for a bit. out of control is what they said. never mind, or is that midn? I understamd that a bicycle theme has errupted in the WOL. I best add me bit.
tara for now, see thee later, [in my best Yorkshire] Nick

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John, I just have to tell you how much enjoyment I get out of listening to you read your poems. I wish everyone did that.

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Hi John
to start in reverse order There was not much point in shame - it didn't rhyme with pelican!
As for all those different crossings, I'd no idea there were so many. I'd just googled pedestrian crossing when this novella on crossings popped up and tempted me - I'm easily led!
By the way if this cycle thread is to be sustained are you doing a rewrite of the pushbike song? XX

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Ouch it still hurts.
I rang my big brother Barca up and asked him to duff them up for me!

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Try buying a new mouse John - last time I had the same problem I had a faulty mouse. x

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Hi John,
thanks for your kind message on my profile and for your entertaining and skillful poems. It is a joy to read the work of a fellow poet who enjoys playing with words (and the guitar).XX

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Hello, John! Thank you so much for commenting on "Palm Sunday" and for G K Chesterton's "The Donkey" . To tell you the truth I haven't read anything by this author before. So, when I read his poems I loved them very much and understood that he was really the great.
With warmest wishes,
Larisa

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You...booed?
Who booed?
I'll merely say "You what, John?!
You...booed?
Who booed?
Did they know WHO was going ON?
(P.S. - HAH...pull the other one!)

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John!!! How could I not have enjoyed your set at the Poetry Spoke??

Your word use an subject matter diverse..You're materclass in the guitar ..well just outstanding heh heh..serfing ... I thoroughly enjoyed the whole evening and it was great to see you and the better half too..

Did you enjoy?..

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Hello John. Thank you for your comment on my poem "The City". I actually wrote this after a panic attack. I suffer from these and it made me think about how a crowded side walk would feel.

Thanks
Shirley

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Thanks for your comment on 'My Violin'.
Were you just STRINGING me along?

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Ah, it's the Stuff fun's made of. Ta muchly, Nick.

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Hello John, glad you enjoyed the 'visual' impact of Weymouth. Might see you down there one day. CHEERS.

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Hey hey, JC old bud; re: 'get it out'? Can't I be arrested for that? But joking aside, thanks mate.

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in re 'My Guitar' I suppose you could also use it as a paddle.

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From one John to another, thanks for you comment on my poem. Yes there will be another one tomorrow.

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Thanks John, (so you reckon you are not yet in your dotage).

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dammit, your last posted comment you beat me by 5 seconds.
correction, you've done it again by 1 second.

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Hi John. Thank you so much for your kind comments on my poem "Altars to The Gods."
I don't attend church but I try,(often failing) to be the kind of person I want to see in others.
Congrats on your work with the restoration of the very old church. You have every right to be proud.

Thanks
Shirley

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Thank you for your comments - if your onions have green shoots I'm praying your further south than me. Only planted my sets on Sunday, hence the grandpa reminder.

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High John,
As you may well gather from my solish.., adres..., opening, I don't tend to take myself too seriously - or spell that well for that matter.
Being a land lubber, I might take a while to find my feet, so to speak, but I have a deep, wicked, sometimes brutal sense of humour that has been known to fly straight over the cap, but usually doesn't.
Ta much for the felicitous welcome,
Nick.

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@ John: :o)

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Thanks for commenting on fertileland. Was not sure if it worked so pleased you sussed out what I was trying to say!

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Hey up, John, glad you liked Distant Friends. I did do a little tweaking, and hope it reads better, thanks for comment. :)

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Hello and good morning John,

I'm a simple person at heart John but must admit to be somewhat confused and amused by your comments and in particular those that elude to Erotica.

Perhaps if your profile pic was a little less
Chippendaleesque I could muster a little more control.

Always hot
Augusta xx

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Hello John, thanks for joining in the discussion on 'IZIMPONDO ZANKOMO' and I take your view entirely about how some aspects of society tend to look back in anger - hence my own cautionary comments, having once had my fingers burned on WOL a while back.

There were many brave soldiers at the event described, but that there was also a privileged elite cannot be denied. So unfair was it that the Commissary who dug them out of a hole was not recognised as he should have been at the time.

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To hell and back John, it has been a very erksome year..

How kind you are to welcome me back so warmly and thank you so much for reading my poem.

Augusta xx

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Thanks John - have added the linky thing!

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