Be great to have you at the Bards this Monday 12 December, John. You'll get TWO slots to read /perform (four mins each slot, but we're not too strict about timings). It's at the Magazine pub, Magazine, New Brighton CH45 1HP, starts 8pm. There will be free butties and mince pies in honour of Christmas. The New Brighton Bards is on the second Monday of each month. Our sister club in central Liverpool, THE LIVER BARDS, is on the third Monday of each month. Both events are listed in WOL's gig guide. Be great to see ye. All the best

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Thanks for the comment on `Fairy` John.

I caused a bit of consternation at uni when I said I didn`t particularly like novels. (because they took too long to say what they had to say)

I still had to read the bloody things though!

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Hi, John! I am very sorry but.... can't post a Ukrainian poem here. The first reason: you won't understand me. The second reason: What's the use of it? But... any way, if you want it...I'll try. Tomorrow. OK?

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Thanks for comment on the Stan Petrowski. Nope not me playing, tweaked an old recording I made with local hillbillies playing ( used to be a Christmas tradition down in the cowshed) George lost 2 fingers since but still plays a fair squeezebox

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Hello, John!
Thank you very much for the comment on "Glamour" Actually I don't speak here about people's pronunciation but about the etymology of some words. I remember quite well the words of professor Higgins in "My Fair Lady": The French they don't care what they do actually as long as they pronounce it properly; the Scots and the Irish leave you close to tears; there even are places where English completely disappears. In America they haven't used it for years. And...the main words: This is what the British population calls an elementary education. So, it's the question of education. I've heard many Americans, Australians and so on and understood that all depends on your culture, intelligence and education. You could be from not English speaking country but your English would be so good that no one ever guess where you've come from.
As to Ukrainian it is very soft language. As Italian it sounds like music. The sounds of proper English I love so much.

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You'll have to introduce me to him then ;)

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Hi John,
Thanks for the comment on Man Flu.
I'm working on the audio. Watch (or listen to) this space.
Dave

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Hi John

I've also been very moved by that Dylan track 'Every Grain of Sand'. It was a very pleasant surprise seeing it quoted on WOL

All the best

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Hi John. Thanks for the nice comments on my poem "My Lifeboat.". I am still posting I just don't do it very often.
Thanks again.

Shirley

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Hello J.C. - your comment about "Arromanches" was generous indeed. What finer compliment might any verse-ifier hope for than having someone wishing they'd written his/her words?
Thank you!

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RE:
Hello Julian. As a rider of a Suzuki 500 I do not feel that you are competent to comment on the riding skills needed for a pile of shite like a BSA Bantam! :)

At least it was British Shite! I once struggled to help my pal get the clutch back together in a Beezer Bantam. It exploded across the workshop. put me off a bit.

I have no bike licence. I was riding the Suzy illegally. And me a teacher!

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Thanks John for your comment on'Obsolete Airline Beverage'. Just read 'Doing It Twice' and - I'm in the library's quiet study section - snorted at the resolution. Naughty man!

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Hi J.C. - thanks for the reply. It seems
fashionable/P.C. these days to knock "England"
and the "English" and it is even more annoying
that the words are invariably absent from any official forms we are continually having to fill in. Maybe it's all part of offical policy to absorb us into some great multi-mass
called "British". So much easier for today's politicians to control and dominate. I wonder
what the bards and poets of another England
would have said about that? It's a fair bet
that today's politicos would never have ransomed Richard the Lion Heart and snuggled up to Prince John instead! :-)
Cheers.

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John,
Thanks for comment on There's an app.
What's an app? - don't give me that.
I bet you are using the flat cap app for Yorkshire folks.
Nice to meet up with you at the Tudor.
Dave

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Hello J.C. - I will backtrack slightly on the
historical conception of "Englishness" now that
I see that Athelstan is given credit for being
the first king of what is accepted as the first
"unified" Kingdom (in the mid-10th century).
I take your point about the paradox of the German(ic|) and French connections. They say
though that William the Conk was of Viking
origins...they seemed to be inveterate Euro -immigrants: with axes to overcome objections!
But the Cornish would probably lay claim to
being the "originals". Judging by their
antipathy towards their Devon neighbours,
they still feel that way! But "English" is
an official ethnicity now so we have as much
right to shout "racism" as anyone else -
backed up by a thousand years of well documented in-fighting and in-breeding. As for
so-called "xenophobia" - ask the Cornish about the Devonians...and the Yorkies about those Lancastrians (etc. etc.) I smile whenever
recent immigrants complain about how they are
treated. They would be wise to study our history for the explanation.

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Hey John,

It never occured that you could get over to the Wirral- I thought Wigan was a trek.

We'd love to have you as a guest poet though!

We don't have an event in December
(we do have a party- your invited
9th December).

Thinking about weather and travel- what month would be best? Feb/March?

Chris

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Thx for the comment on my last poem John- appreciated.

My Best

Chris

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Thanks John for Bon Voyage,

Nothing like a girl with a decent bum.

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Thx for the comment/feedback on my last John. I wrote it in that pure imabic tetrameter rhyming couplet way so...heyho

Thx for reading

P.S

I would love it if you could be a guest poet of ours next year.

Far maybe- but have a think. We'd lobe to have you on the wirral as a guest poet.

Chris

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Hiya, John - safely back home eventually - what an epic trip back you had last Thursday!

Thanks for your comment on "21...". Yes back in the 80s (giving it all away here!) there was still some industry around then. And always the wind. Britain's Chicago!

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Hi John, 'A Winter's Tale' ta for commenting. Perhaps this starts off the silly season prematurely - had to get something in hand for a poetry group reading (Christmas bash coming up all too hastily). First attempt at a monolgue as MC calls it. Have left a similar comment on my blog. Cheers.

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You're better off with an oldster in a motorised cart, tartan rug and all, than a gorilla swinging a golf club! I think I go
with the wit who described golf as "a good walk spoiled".

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Thanks a lot John.

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Hi John.
Thanks for your comments on my "A Small Story about a Small Town"
I actually got the idea for this watching the History Channel's "Life After People".
Although I did grow up in very small towns.
About recording my own poem, I don't know, I make too many mistakes.

Thanks
Shirley

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.. thanks John ... this bird is from a sanctuary in Chorley ... and not the biggest !

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Hello John, re; Chattering of Twites, I'm here in the UK (Woking) when soon after hearing their unmistakable sound (which had everybody peering into the tree)I got home and switched on the telly and was astonished to hear the same sound albeit I did not get a good visual because of the dark. I am a member of a wildlife group and will run it by someone if I get the chance. We are getting some unusual birds here though having seen cormorants in canals etc. We also have quite a variety of hawks. Appreciate your comment and sorry to hear about your fish stocks.

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... commas, full stops... what's that then?
thanks Coopey (geoff)

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Hello, John! Thank you very much for commenting on "I've learned" . I've made some changes there and certainly would like to know your opinion. When you have time, please read the changes.
With warmest wishes,
Larisa

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'Undermined', I thought you were referring to the goo ants converted their prey into. Gourmand slobbering jelly eh? OK we'll go with that.

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Hi John. I always thought "now then" was just a kind of Yorkshire greeting, like "hello", but with more of a challenge to it.

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Hello John, 'Undermined' guess the insect world is pretty gory eh? A sort of mass Hoovering device for recycling. Can't help being mesmerised by it though - often think of comparisons with human heirarchies.

Thanks for commenting.

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Hello John, 'An Englishman's Home' much appreciate the kind words. Sorry to hear about the eucalyptus though (RIP).

That said we are all probably mass murders when it comes to polishing off plants through neglect.

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whaddya mean ?? - I'm the good-looking one in the family

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I've emailed you about the change to "Two Giggling Girls" - a result of your comment on an "awkward" line.
Thanks.

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doing it twice is very funny....lmfao (000)

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Thanks for the recent contribution to my profile which conjures up this reply -Those in verse may well think worseOf those who pose in fractured prose.But a poem like "The Burning of the Leaves" byLaurence Binyon is without rhyme as such, yet wonderful. A great example of how it should be done in myview. But this cobbler will stick to his last,for better or worse.Cheers - :-)

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Hello John.
To be perfectly honest I was at a bit of a loss over what to title Sixty!
I have just spent a week or so in France with a bunch of friends celebrating the BIG 60 and this stuff just came about, so I suppose it was much as you say. Don't read too much into the literal though, my life is far less exciting. Cheers mate (come on your Spurs).

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Thanks for commenting on The Tartan Bard John. I know what you mean about his popularity but he does come from an interesting era and I really look forward to seeing what lies beneath the covers of the book. Much obliged.

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Thanks for the encouragement John, was a while before I dared go into that pub again after they heard that one!

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Thanks for that last comment John - I thought you were blaming me for a moment! Sorry about the poor fish:(
(I've offered my condolences already - on FB) x

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Just to say that I share your observations about "free poetry" being prose with chopped-up lines. I like to think of this form in the
context of newspaper reports. In many instances, they read the same way. Some twit
once referred to Kipling's "If" (voted the UK's
favourite) as "doggerel" in the London Evening
Standard. Clearly a person with little command
or control of the English language, let alone
imagination.

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Keep those main lines coming - and branch off
into the sidings of your imagination every chance you get. Laughter is rightly called the
best medicine..and one-track minds like mine
really enjoy your stuff.
Thanks for the kind comment about the audio for
Daddy Knew Johnny Cash...albeit I have "cheated" slightly with the musical setting. But getting the message across is the
aim, is it not?!
M.C.

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Hi John Thanks for your comments on Symphony of the Elements. I did move the verses around quiet a few times.
Hazel

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Hi John, thank you for your kind comments on Autumn Dawn, appreciated. x

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Thank you John for your very encouraging critique and observations.... I once had an Aunt Gerty... lovely lady died going UP Niagara Falls in a barrel...

Once again many thanks

Augusta xx

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John, you're very kind in your comment on "Nicole". Thank you.

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I've just read 'Doing it Twice'. Laughed out loud, very funny, very clever, very true.

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John, thanks for commenting on The Carpet-Fitter's Tale. Trust you had a good break!

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Hi John. Thanks for the comments on "Who is This Woman in the Mirror".
Men don't age? LOL. Someone should tell my husband this.

Thanks again
Shirley

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