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Sat 30th Mar 2013 13:10

I have already heard what a wonderful night it was Cathy..Great respect for all those involved..long may you last!!

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Sat 30th Mar 2013 12:55

Excellento!Bravo!xx

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Sat 30th Mar 2013 12:52

Rock on Lynn! mind you,I would'nt mind sharing my spare bedroom in our south wing with a nice young
homeless blonde as long as Trish could move into the west wing-as in far out west! haha!xx

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Sat 30th Mar 2013 12:52

Nice piece Steve-
our best regards.xx

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Cynthia Buell Thomas

Sat 30th Mar 2013 11:32

I'm not sure where Harry is coming from here - from three such disparate angles. The comments sound like a 'stung' response.

I don't accept your blanket statement about priests and nuns (applicable to all religious groups having similar 'orders'.) I think it is just as biased as the opposite. IMO, Extremes are never valid because they lack the potential argument of persuasion. But I do totally agree to the abolition of the four 'states' which are merely invidious mind-control of the masses.

I do enjoy your contributions.

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Mikhail Smith

Sat 30th Mar 2013 10:21

Hello Steve .. thanks for your comment on 'PIC-USB-4550-sch.' .. mikhail ....

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Sat 30th Mar 2013 01:13

Hiya there Steve..Thanks so much for the lovely comment on my poem..Kind of you :)

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Andy Ainsworth

Sat 30th Mar 2013 01:09

Thanks for your comment Yvonne. Slightly on the edge this one, literally and figuratively

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Steve Higgins

Sat 30th Mar 2013 00:03

Nicely worded and a good rythym. I like this,
Steve

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Steve Higgins

Fri 29th Mar 2013 23:25

Thanks for looking at 'pass the bread' MC
All the best, Steve

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Fri 29th Mar 2013 23:12

Hi Rach...x..sighs..no not real life..it was s'posed to read as an old car..me being the 'ol'banger!..It was for the comp about inanimate objects..was gonna be a car or a dildo..the car won out!

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John Coopey

Fri 29th Mar 2013 23:11

I agree. Excellent idea and delivery.
Is it too late for you to submit it for the inanimate objects comp?

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Fri 29th Mar 2013 23:07

Hello again there Ian :)

You know something?..I did have trade in there then at the last minute I decided to put in buy..hmmm..a couple of folk have thought this was about real life so to speak..D'ya think it is too ambiguous?..What made you realise it was about a car?..thanks Ian
Stel

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Cathy Bryant

Fri 29th Mar 2013 20:11

Thank you, Greg! I hope you enjoy volume 3. Plenty of Write Out Louders, of course - it wouldn't be the best if it didn't have them.

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Greg Freeman

Fri 29th Mar 2013 19:02

Great account of what sounds like a great evening, Cathy. Wish I'd been there. I'm a southerner, but I understand the importance and impact of Best of Manchester Poets, I think. I really enjoyed vol 2, not least for the number of familiar Write out Loud names, and look forward to seeing vol 3. Greg

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Fri 29th Mar 2013 17:10

oh you clever Mr. Whiteley!x

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M.C. Newberry

Fri 29th Mar 2013 15:50

Disgraceful goings-on by the puritans of political correctness. I think we should be told who had a hand in it!!

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M.C. Newberry

Fri 29th Mar 2013 15:37

Sustained enjoyable "pop" at a certain mindset. "Private Eye" would doubtless approve. Somehow, I wasn't surprised to see the words "Daily Mail" appear. Clearly, a huge circulation comes at a cost. Love the title of this poem!

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Yvonne Brunton

Fri 29th Mar 2013 14:23

With heartbeat trepidation
The ghastly tip begins
A check-up at the dentist's
Where she will know my sins.

On lazy oral hygiene
She pounces with derision
And punishes with great delight
By vicious drill's precision.

love your poem xx

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Martin Bailey

Fri 29th Mar 2013 14:21

Thank you Yvonne, kind comments help to dissolve the down time.

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Yvonne Brunton

Fri 29th Mar 2013 14:07

Being appreciated by one's peers is heartwarming and never unwelcome, but another side to writing is celebrating the skills of other wordsmiths. I don't need to know what awards have been granted to a particular group of words to know whether I like them ( or Not)Indeed the self aggrandisement is more of a turn-off
One of the Joys of WOl is enjoying and being part of the cameraderie of the comments and repartee between like-minded folk.

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Yvonne Brunton

Fri 29th Mar 2013 13:48

Recalls to me the Formby dunes of my youth. Shiftingly, ephemerously as transient as first love. wonderfully descriptive piece.

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Yvonne Brunton

Fri 29th Mar 2013 13:41

Funny Woman! Led us right up the garden path there! xx

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Yvonne Brunton

Fri 29th Mar 2013 13:31

Love the lines:-
And before long the gloom of the down time

becomes regular time and time stands still.

simple but so effective.

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Yvonne Brunton

Fri 29th Mar 2013 13:21

for those that don't get it perhaps it should be called Gropeless Lane.

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Yvonne Brunton

Fri 29th Mar 2013 13:18

great stuff - I'm still chuckling

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Yvonne Brunton

Fri 29th Mar 2013 12:54

What a lovely idea so well expressed. I love it.

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John Coopey

Fri 29th Mar 2013 12:15

You are indeed close, ian.

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Ian Whiteley

Fri 29th Mar 2013 11:01

I'll just add my own praise and salutations to what everyone else has said - a brilliant and evocative piece Freda - LOVED IT!
Ian

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Ian Whiteley

Fri 29th Mar 2013 10:59

we must HUNT for the answer John
If I Were to take a PUNT
(and not being too BLUNT)
I'd guess at
CLOSE?

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Freda Davis

Fri 29th Mar 2013 10:54

Thanks to all for your lovely comments. I have been thinking lately that inspiration is very much about having the motivation and patience to allow those caverns in the back of our minds to give us access to our memories and thoughts. It's great when WOL gives us the opportunity to get this kind of lovely feedback.

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John Aikman

Fri 29th Mar 2013 07:42

Sorry to hear about you still being in pain. I must have been exceptionally lucky. I stopped taking the painkillers after 2 days. I WAS in pain, but it was such a different pain to the pain prior to the OP that I found it quite bearable and almost cathartic, especially as it got less and less each day, rather than worse and worse like the previous pain.

It's a very subjective thing I found. It hurt differently depending upon how I viewed it. Anyway, I'm still sure that you will eventually end up better off than before. I had a freaky experience after I got mobile again (about a week after the OP) when I became convinced that one leg was shorter than the other, however they measured them and proved that they weren't, it turned out to be my new posture and, having spent much of the previous 5 years limping and standing with all the weight on one leg I had become lopsided. Once I noticed that then I found that swimming, in particular, helped rebalance me, although you should only swim freestyle, not breaststroke because the leg kick is risky. Anyway, keep o keeping on!

Jx

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Ann Foxglove

Fri 29th Mar 2013 06:22

Hi Lynn - thanks for the good wishes re my hip op xx

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Ann Foxglove

Fri 29th Mar 2013 06:21

Hi Anthony - thanks for the good wishes re my hip op xx

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Ann Foxglove

Fri 29th Mar 2013 06:21

Hi Greg - thanks for the good wishes re my hip op xx

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Ann Foxglove

Fri 29th Mar 2013 06:20

Hi John - thanks for the good wishes re my hip op. Still sore and I can't sleep - can't get comfortable :( xx

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Ann Foxglove

Fri 29th Mar 2013 06:19

Hi Laura - thanks for the good wishes re my hip op xx

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Ann Foxglove

Fri 29th Mar 2013 06:17

Hi Isobel - thanks for the good wishes re my hip op xx

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Ann Foxglove

Fri 29th Mar 2013 06:16

Hi Harry - thanks for the good wishes re my hip op xx

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Ann Foxglove

Fri 29th Mar 2013 06:15

Thanks for the good wishes re the hip op - as to the photo - no way! ;)

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John Coopey

Fri 29th Mar 2013 00:21

Not quite, Stella!

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<Deleted User> (6315)

Thu 28th Mar 2013 23:27

ermmm...Grope hope? Lane..

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<Deleted User> (6315)

Thu 28th Mar 2013 23:24

Very much enjoyed!.. :)

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Thu 28th Mar 2013 23:22

Shame on you Ian!! tskk...even old bangers have feelings yer know! :) Thanks for the lovely reply to Second-Hand Love x appreciated..

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Thu 28th Mar 2013 23:21

Bout a car innit?..For the Comp.. Inanimate Object lol..think if I had added furry dice in there it would have been easier to understand?..Pleased you enjoyed nevertheless :) x

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Francine

Thu 28th Mar 2013 22:25

I have to agree with everyone, and I cannot add anything to what has already been said... And yes, thank you Winston for posting the link to Freda's fabulous poem!

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John Coopey

Thu 28th Mar 2013 22:09

I really have no issue with immigrants coming here to get work - you don't see our numpties showing the initiative to go abroad to find it! But it's become an issue "of which we dare not speak" without being branded a flog-'em-and-send-'em-back reactionary or a pinko-leftie-tree-hugger. We really need to reclaim the ground for informed and responsible debate.
On another front, there was a programme on the telly some little while ago which examined the DNA of a number of white english residents (including a prominent National Front/EDL figure) to find that all of them had a minority proportion of indigenous "english" DNA, as indeed do most of us.

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John Coopey

Thu 28th Mar 2013 21:55

...answers on a postcard, please...

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John Coopey

Thu 28th Mar 2013 21:47

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