Thank you. :)
I have spent the day recovering from the effects of much too much wine and it's been one of those days when bits of the night before come back at you in flashes.... sorry to anyone I may have bored, dribbled on or generally over shared to! It was wonderful to see familiar faces and put the faces to names I only knew from here before. great to see you all, you're a lovely bunch. Well done to everyone organising and competing, what a belting night...or neet!
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Félicitations Rachel...
C'était un plaisir de faire ta connaissance hier soir : )

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Let me be the first to offer my official congratulations. You are a top lady and very class act - you deserved to win. Lovely as ever to meet you. Look forward to seeing and hearing a lot more of you.
Isobel xx

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hey rach, glad to meet you at the slam.
had a quick look at your samples here and i loved 'dad' beautifully sad and funny. love it xx

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I think chauv'd means mithered/bothered. Clemt definitely means hungry - my dad used to use it and very occasionally you still hear it round these parts - though much of our dialect will probably die out with all the american tv kids watch - like the correct pronunciation of neither and either.

My dad also used to tell me if I was 'slating'. That means when your underskirt is showing beneath your skirt.Hope you don't mind me poking my nose in - it's a fascinating subject.

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Hi - my mother-in-law used to come out with all these sayings & I have absolutely no idea what most of them mean - "I'm chauved d'eath" being one - also clemt ?? It wasn't something I grew up with in Bolton, but she was more towards Leigh XX

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Was Spring Cleaning there before? It is a great poem. So nice to have you back. xxxx

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Hello, sorry I have been away for so long....had something of a block of late (blog poem may explain lol)so better keep me at arm's length in case it's contagious! :)
Rach
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earth calling mars.... earth calling mars... comein mars. Its beena while Rachel? Win x

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Just saying hello and hope you are well - and I miss you on here! xxxx

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Dad brought a tear to my eye. So tender and so true. It's tragic and hilarious and brilliant. Thank you.

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Hello Rachel, thank you for commenting on Otis cries. That sound will take a long time to die away from my hearing I feel. Graham

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hey! just noticed you online. don't know if you're interested but i've set up a performance poetry workshop with ben mellor on sunday afternoon 1pm til 3pm. we've got 2 places left. i'm going and so is isobel. fancy it? wigan town centre. £3. if you do- email me at thewigantalentfactory@live.co.uk

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I'm not sure how to comment on the samples or if you've blogged 'Dad' but I bloody love it. Max xx

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All things we desire are as ballons... they seem too shiney, we check them too much, handle them too rough... and then... they POP and are gone... lost and its our own fault...

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Well I'm glad to see you back and posting! I might chance the May one. It should be warm by then. I could take a sleeping bag and a cardboard box and camp out in the hope of getting a spot on the open mic. I might also bring a bag of peanuts to chuck at the compere...

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Thanks for your comment Rachel. Where've you been?? You obviously don't have a serious addiction to WOL - perhaps I should take up smoking LOL.

Hope to see you at a venue sooner or later. I might even brave the dreaded Preston wordsoup, if not...

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Rachel surely I must have the buttons! It's Sunday-'polls' have closed! Also ''with'' will have to be replaced with ''was''. ps I too purchase 'eggs' on the Monday :)

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How about a globulatiousness of frogspawn! Only jokin'! A glistening tumult? A gelatinous wobbling? I could go on and on! And what's with Tommy's "with" replaced with "was"? Is the Ann he's talking about me? And what IS he talking about. I fear I have missed something! Also, going back to taxidermy, I am not on Facebook. xxxx

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I love buttons...It's Sunday! applications must have surely closed?...Also Ann as an addendum: ''with'' replaced with ''was'' NOW, I must have my prize, or I will scweem and scweem!

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Rachel try leaving out completely ''an obscenity of frog spawn'' and add a 'd' to ''an'' and-
''The frog had gone,

and in it’s place

gazing blandly up

with a thousand jelly eyes.

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Hi Rach - thanks for commenting on my bat! Glad you're back amongst us. xxxx

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Glad you enjoyed the Kingfisher poem, Rachel. A similar thing happened to me: I carefully prepared to take a picture of an immobile heron on the far side of the canal, poised to seize a fish, marvelling at its ability to keep so still, only to discover it was a plastic one. I need new glasses.
Thanks too for commenting on Eating in Private, and feeling it so much. It's intended to be part of a sequence, which I think you may be embarked on too, with your "war at sea" poems. I'm always looking forward to the next one. You have the knack of referring the past to the present, which maybe I need to do more with mine. Greg

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OI! Gladdrags! patum peperium-what disgusting language to use on Palm Sunday-wot I don,t understand anyway-heehee....ta chuck for chukkin' us a comment on me dicky..bird poo-em....in your neck of the woods(more or less,this week-Funky Fleetwood for four days-in caravan-now theres luxury!keep yer snow shoes handy-more on the way-'they' say! wot-not-a-skorcha!brrrr-Stef-xx

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Hey up 'Gladders! wherfore art thou-get thy blogs blogging-pretty
please! Stefeatures

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Concentrate on poetry, not prose, that's my tip. It's taken me 40 years to learn that lesson!

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Wondered what had happened to you, Rachel! Had to google nanowrimo to find out what it was ... how many words did you write?

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I have seen things on Ebay like stuffed squirrels riding motorbikes and wearing superman teeshirts, but I resisted those!
It is an old tradition, to have tableau of stuffed creatures sitting round having tea etc.. But I do love my raven. I will post a photo of him on here someday!

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Hi Rachel, sos Ive only just got round to thanking you for your lovely comment on my last poem... Ive had a horrid bug which has laid me up for the last few days. How amazing that you wrote your poem when you did.. like you say great minds!!!!! Although truth to tell theres nothing really new, just our own interpretation of how we see things. Sometimes something we read of others inspires us to write in a similar vein. I know this happened to me with the first poem I ever put up here called "My Little red haired laddie" {still one of my favourites} A poet called Nabila, dont think you ll remember her, shes left the site now, wrote a beautiful poem called "Green Eyes" about a family gene in Afghanistan which produced green eyes. It got me thinking about hereditary, and my little grandsons red hair which came from celtic ancestors generations ago and inspired my favourite poem! Sos I cant say yours did cos I hadnt seen it!! {My psychic link doesnt run to telepathy!!! lol}
Cate xx

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Hi Rachel, I have a problem with poem titles too. I sometimes don't hit on the right one for several years! I assumed with Protection Poem that it was an undercover job, so to speak, ie that you'd sent it off somewhere with another title and were disguising it here, as discussed recently on a thread. It's a long time since my kids were that age, but I can still identify with that fierce feeling. Good luck with the competitions and magazines. After a year with the comps I decided that mags were a better bet in view of the odds, publishing between 25-50 poems an issue, as opposed to 1st,2nd,3rd, and possibly ending up with nothing in print. There is the chance of cash with the competitions though, I agree! Greg

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Hi Rach - yea, I got the point of your Elvis poem, but I'm sure you don't really look like him first thing in the morning. You shouldn't go to bed wearing the skin tight white leather trouser suite covered in rhinetstones! That's where you've come a cropper! Not sure who I look like when I get up - try not to look!

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Hey, thanks for your comment on To space and back, do you daydream/switch off too?Maybe its selective hearing!haha

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Hi Rachel,

Very interested in the course you're charting in your war poems of the sea. I've been working for some time on poems about my father's time as a POW in Thailand. By the way, do you have this link? http://www.poetrymagazines.org.uk/
It's just if you're sending any of your poems to magazines - and I hope you are - it's a very useful site, in my experience. Greg

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Hi Rach-sorry I misplaced Dad for Grandad.There again when it comes to it,wheres the difference?they are both equally valued.thanks for commentarios on (King,Country..)love-Grandad Stefanxx

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Thanks for your comment on 'There to Here,'
a more detailed interpretation is in the comments box if you care to see it. It's interesting to learn how others relate to the content so thanks again.

Janet.x

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You've been out performing I see! Great! Which pomes did you do? Was it hard to choose what to read? Sounds as if it went well! I'm so glad! anniepoo xx

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hey
1. i really love your dad poem. the end line makes me want to cry and laugh at the same time.
2. i enjoyed your performance at word soup last night- i think you have a very likeable stage presence and your poems were nice and light and entertaining. all good!

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Thank you for your witty comment , I
also watch birds by the way.

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Cheers Rach,re 'woodsboy'-inspired by two of my 'clambering grandys'
regards to you and your 'littlies'-Stefanoxx

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Hi Rachel, thanks for your comment on my Chinese New Year poem.
I was born in the year of the dog too but have other animal traits linked in.

Janet.x

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thank you Rachel. That would be a big clue to gender then..ahh lots of tiny cats.. Who was more suprised you or Ronan I wonder?..Our little cat had a kitten once,just one,a thing tinier than her,she didn't know what to do with it,we had to wrap it in a flannel and put it in front of the stove to keep it warm. She got used to it and was a great mum. I once saw a stuffed cat in a weird collection above a garage in Kirkby Stephen,it was playing a very small harp,gave me nightmares for years.thanks again, debx

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Hi again I'm actually procrastinating myself. I earn my living these days by selling books on Amazon and am supposed to be listing a load of old stock to make space, but it's very easy to get distracted on the internet, especially when you get feedback on poems! Have a relaxing day. I really must get down to it now. Man cannot live on poetry alone.

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Hi Rachel That was quick! I only posted it a minute ago.

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Hi Rachel Thanks for the comments on my own langauge poems. I only posted them after reading your poem Dead Language. My two in turn have lead to an interesting response from Deborah which pointed me in the direction of some interesting Occitan poetry - so wheels within wheels! I noticed this morning that the death of the Bo language is the lead story on Yahoo.

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don't be too quick to dismiss those thoughts Rachael, many will fall about laughing at us (I've decided life's too short..I don't care anymore..let them) but Janet ; ) myself and now you, know this can happen. I'm glad you were there to hear her, Deb xx

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Hi Rachel,
Thanks for your comment on 'Bedtime'. Much appreciated x

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Good afternoon brill mummy Rach.I was in methaphorical Blackpool.But HEY! we go quite often,mostly to St Annes,for big beach/doggy walks(well I do,while the missus and her friend attend the spiritualist church)don,t worry,they are not serious ghostbusters(as I call them lol!)they are two of the nuttiest nutters,especially when together!But no probs re your offer-will remember to contact you on here when next going there,thats a very kind offer! be warned though,bring plenty of needle and cotton-I guarantee your sides WILL be burst! cheers lovely Lady-look forward to possible rendezvous(I,ll be able to read some of my award winning poetry to you-NOT!haha!)Steffersxx

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Hi, thanks for your comment on 'fourteen years'.
I have to add that i really enjoyed reading 'the balloon'. It reminded me of my kids and fun times! x

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Good fucking morning Rachel.Thanks a fucking lot for the fucking com-fucking-ments!You slay me!Thank the Saints for peeps like you! enjoy your day chuck.-Stefanxx

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Hi again Rachel.You a grumpy mum?
as much as I am a poet! haha-rest well tonight.Sithi'thoon!-Stefx

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