Thank you kindly, Yvonne, for your kind words in response to my poem about legal tender:

"clever piece, so much said in so few words. well constructed. I enjoyed it."

You are most appreciated. Cheers.

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Hi Yvonne. Thanks for your kind comments on my blog post about "Pretty Fragments."

The prediction is a really fun thing to take part in, it was the one thing that got me writing seriously again 3 years ago. The folks that take part are very welcoming.

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Thanx Yvonne :o)I appreciate your comment.

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Hello Old Fruity,
Glad you liked "Samantha Louise and the syllabically-challenged Sweet Sarah Jane".
Wotchafink to the threads then, eh? You never lose it!

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Yvonne
many thanks for your kind comments on 'Snowblind', they are much appreciated
cheers

Ian

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Personal Odour? Fishermen? Surely some mistake!

Thanks for your feedback on 'Mackerel In The Bath' Yvonne-glad it raised a smile :-)

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Many thanks for being my spell checker! Offending words corrected. xx

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Hello Yvonne,
Thankyou for commenting on "Hotel Fawlty Towers". You would not credit the number of times I blobbed in recording it; I must have done 20 takes!

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... I might add that I'd be more than happy to check out "The New (You)"

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Hello Yvonne,
Glad you liked Old Ladies.
We had a Festival for the Over 50's in York last year where I did a spot of 'poetry'. (I was, in fact, over-qualified for a Festival of the Over 50's.)

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Hi Yvonne. Apologies for not replying sooner, thank you for your kind comments on feeling the pinch. Don't know if I'm ready to perform yet, maybe soon though, I'll let you know!

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Hi Yvonne,
Thank you for your comments on Rum, Weedy and Bilgewater-not only will it blow your head off, it'll take your socks with it!

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Thank you for your warm welcome. I think were gonna get along just fine :)

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http://www.thewindmillsofyourmind.com Noel Harrison ;o)

http://youtu.be/f5IRI4oHKNU

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A tricorne hat, eh bonny. I bet you looked like nelson (horatio not mandela). I don't suppose you've kept the rest of the uniform? A girly wirly who collected cards? You'll be telling me next you did latin and can do keepy-uppies!

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Thanks so much Yvonne for your lovely comment on my January Fairy. I go to a monthly poetry group and the "homework" last time was January - and she just popped into my head!

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Hi Yvonne Thanks for comment on my postcard poem. My days as a teacher seem a long time ago now. Don't know how I did it for so long!

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I am currently an airline pilot and play bassoon in the Royal Liverpool Philomonic Orchestra and am chef-du-'file at various restaurants and still find time to chuck empty beer cans at gulls that land too close to my caravan.

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Thank you for your kind words Yvonne - you know what it's like when you're the writer though - bloody things are never QUITE finished! ;)

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Thank you Ms B. methinks you enjoy a caravan by the sea?

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...and what's wrong with calling it Penis Penis? ("So good they named it twice")

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Hey Yvonne, glad you liked 'Mum' and loved your villanelle.Don't get me started on Dylan Thomas, I love his work. Went to see his 'house on stilts' - the boathouse at laugharne some years ago, what a great museum and the staff are so nice. Heres my pic:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/61207511@N03/5737365722/in/set-72157629746360284
best wishes, Steve

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'brasso', yvonne? Very good. Spookily when i was at school a kid had a testicle removed and cruelly got nicknamed 'womble'.

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Hi Yvonne,
Thank you for your comments on 'A Tradition Saved'
I am hoping to include this and other excerpts I may post on here in my next novel (which will be a sequel to 'Hunting The Great White Prawn')so all feedback is especially appreciated.
Cheers,
Ledger

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We thank you Yvonne for opinions(Down)
and observations.xx

Indeed,mutilating does NOT work-why?
because two old duffers somehow
forget to add the word-itself-
immediately after it-zzzzzzzzzzzz!!

Cheers chuck.xx

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Thanks Yvonne! I am glad that a connection was made, even without the aid of a cup of tea.

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Thanks for checking out 'the middle of the night' Yvonne. I rarely need the loo in the night but conversely when I'm sleeping in the day after a night shift I always have to go at 11:30!
best wishes, Steve

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Thanks Yvonne - I guess that the "Creator" must have decided that love per se was not conducive to progress or else humans might be inclined to stay happy in a state of commonly enjoyed conviviality and go nowhere in the greater scheme of things. Would that be so bad, I ask?! Instead, we seem to have been programmed to have the capacity but not the total commitment...a sort of emotional half-way house of "one kiss forward...two kicks back"; and vice-versa.

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Hello Yvonne,
Thankyou for commenting on "Gays".
There is an old (rather politically incorrect) joke about 2 blokes in a pub. The 1st one says he is emigrating. His mate says "That's a surprise" and asks him "Why?".
"Queers" his friend replies.
"How do you mean?"
"Well" he explains, "500 years ago they were burnt at the stake; 200 years ago they were hanged;100 years ago an man like Oscar Wilde was imprisoned; 50 years ago it could ruin a man's political career; 10 years ago it was still in the closet. I'm off before they make it compulsory".
Myself, I am more liberal but would not welcome compulsion!

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Hello Old Fruity,
Glad you liked my prodigious offering entitled "Mr Gabardine Man". If ever you're outside the Empire in Barnsley...

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Hi Yvonne-re 'In an intimate room'-many thanks.
Your inspiration is such a great help!xx

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;o)

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Thanks re the hoped for approval Yvonne.

Previous last line's were;

'My opinion of you
is that
you are not here
for the fun of it'
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glad to have obliged.xx

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Hi Yvonne.

Firstly,let us thank you for responding to our poem 'Lost'by commenting on our profile page.We think think that way is nicer and more personal as we hope this reply is for you.

Secondly,following your advice we have 'smoothed' the ending over of the poem in question as well as adding an image of such a sufferer.
We hope the changes meet with your approval.xx

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Hello Yvonne,
Thankyou for your thoughts on "Sell-By Dates".
We've had some happy, embarrassing times when the kids were little as they ran up the supermarket aisle shouting "Plenty on the gypsy counter today, mum".

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Yvonne, I'll never get over the thrill of writing something for WOL and finding comments waiting for me when I go back to it. Glad you liked 'That Place', best wishes, Steve

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What ho, Bonny!
All the best for 2013 to you and yours. And many thanks for commenting on my latest masterpiece, "I Blame The Scapegoats".

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Thanks for your comment on my latest Yvonne. Yes - some people just like to dominate/intimidate, be it their wifey or their children.

I suppose there must be women like that around too, but I think it's less common. That might have something to do with the physicality thing or the economics of who pulls in the bigger wage.

Relationships are much healthier when there is equality I think - though maybe it's horses for courses.

x

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You're right Yvonne and it seems there will be more of these situations developing with more cuts on the way.
People will have less opportunities to 'dig' their way out.

Happy New Year

Mike

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Hello Y,
Glad you liked "Catch the Bins" and "Compliment". I'm afraid only one is autobiographical!

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two old duffers beg ones pardon for late thank you for comments on 'Night walk' xx

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Hello y. I'm afraid 'nick nocky' is entirely the work of kd. It was my tribute and cheeky contribution to the discussion on experimental poetry in the blog 'william carlos williams red wheelbarrow'.

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Yvonne, thanks for taking the time to read and comment
The Ofsted thing is part of my ongoing battle to stop writing about people who may go into a school, which came about with the little WOL campaign to write/submit poems that would go on the Poet-tree at Kingsland School

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Ey up, Y.
Wot you doin' on this site again! Not seen you since your rather poor "100 Metres" pipped my excellent "Whinge and Fucking Bleat" to the tape in the Olympic Competition.
Get yourself a new pencil sharpener.
(Oh and thanks for the comments on "Racist Is...")

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Hi Yvonne, thank you for your kind comments on "Can't Beat Experience", much appreciated. x

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Thank you for your commenmt on Class of 54 Yvonne.

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Hello Y again,
You are not far off the mark about Prince Harry ("Be Ye There Or Be Ye Square"). We hope to raise thousands of pounds by asking people to give money for me to keep my clothes on.

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Hello Sweet Pea,
Glad you liked "Crossroads Motel". My personal favourite was one called (I think) "Triangle" about a North Sea cruise ship. I think it aspired to the Caribbean cruise genre but the best bit was being able to see the goose pimples on the actresses purporting to be enjoying the sun as the boat bobbed around off Dogger Bank in an Arctic gale. (Incidentally, don't go looking for Dogger Bank!)
I hadn't realised that your poem pre-dated the actual rail announcement. That's very clever of you - a case of life mimicking art. Will you write me a poem about the Grand National next spring?

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thank you for your comment Yvonne!

Katy

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Yvonne,
Thanks for the response to Quince tree! Very nice feedback.

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