Hi Greg Thanks for comment on 'Territory'. Yes, the 'fine line bwteen civilisation and the natural world' has been a bit of an obsession with me in recent years. I had actually promised myself a break from poetry - thinking I maybe been pushing it a bit- then this one just came out of the blue!

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Hello Greg,
Glad you enjoyed "Here's My Tits..." It was true as well!

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

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Hi Greg Glad you liked my trees, or I suppose they're still Hockney's! Looking forward to meeting up at Jan & Donall's gig. Should be a good night.

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No worries. And no, unfortunately I've never been to the Scillies, but would love to go if given the chance.

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Hello Greg,
Thanks for your kind words on "Sonnet 18", my latest masterpiece!

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Hi Greg Thanks for comms on my little 'postcard' from Dubai. I'll have to think about the capitals, like hyphens and italics they can be very problematical! I've now got a set of 20 of these postcards - for the moment that might be it - but who knows if I continue on my travels I might get some more ideas, although these go back over 40 years! Look forward to meeting up again at Guildford.

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Brooke Bond indeed, Greg; they had a little landscape shaped album for you to stick them in. I googled it an attached a link on the blog. If you follow it up be prepared for a wonderful fulfilling feeling of nostalgia!

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Hi Greg THanks for kind words on my David poem. Yes, now you mention it we did have a conversation about 'postcard' poems. KIngsley Amis once famously said that ' no one wants any more poems about foreign cities'. If these little poems come to anything and I manage to publish them I'll use that as an epigraph. I don't agree with him and some of my favourite poets are always writing about foreign places: Jamie McKendrick, Michael Hofman, Bernard Spencer, CHarles Tomlinson. Anyway, these have ben quite fun to do. I'm up to 14 at the moment.

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Hello Greg,
Thanks for your comments on "Gays".
You have made your preferences plain!
SOOTY!!! BLOODY SOOTY!!!

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Happy New Year Greg and many thanks for your comments on the Man and the Willow. Would you believe me if I said that I actually wrote that poem in a willow tree?

regards,

Graham

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Hello Greg
Hope retirement is suiting you although I suspect it won't have kicked in yet.
Thanks for the comment on "The Red Wheelbarrow". "Sheer genius" may over-egg it a little!

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Hi Greg, I appreciate your very kind words on 'Underground'. This was based on some recent work found in a book at Waterstones.

Astonishing stuff actually & to a claustrophobe like myself, absolutely terrifying. Fascinating though what lies beneath our feet & slides into the mire with the passage of time.

I don't suppose your other half is involved in the Messiah choir at HG Welles on 8th December by any chance! Was thinking of going along.

CHEERS.

P.

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Thanks for your recent positive comments Greg. Always appreciated. I need to get some serious commenting done of my own, ther's some strong stuff about on WOL. Regards, G

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Thanks for your comment Greg - glad you liked it. I think my poetic juices have started flowing again - phewwww. I've got one brewing about dog fouling at the moment - that one will be for the poetry tree :)

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Hi Greg, have added another chunk to 'The Pit Stop. Much obliged. P.

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Hi Greg, 'The Pit Stop' have added a sizeable chunk on that blog. Appreciate your taking the time to comment. Many thanks.

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Hello Greg.
Thanks for commenting on Man u 2 Spurs 3.
My mate who's a Man U fan has enjoyed years of bragging rights. Usually his texts are non-stop. On Saturday I think his signal must've been down!

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I grinned at your use of the phrase "after years of being apparently 'normal'" in your reply on my profile. The use of poetry to reflect attitudes is affected by the social mores of the time. As Ian Hislop points out in his current entertaining TV series on the British stiff upper lip, Britons of the 17th and 18th centuries were a far more emotional breed altogether than their Victorian descendants...and the poetry of the respective eras certainly reflect that change. Keats and Newbolt...how different are they?! Today's abrasive, often vulgar style surely 'reflects the age we live in now...just as today's music does. The compensation is being able to return to feed very sumptiously off the offerings of the past, thank goodness for them all.

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Thanks for your kind remarks, Greg.

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Hi Greg, somewhat belatedly. thx for your comments on 'when did we turn around' Every holiday I take my daughter home from Leeds to Bristol and come back the same day. Its a long day and I have to do something on the train.

Win x

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Hi Greg, I did a presentation on African poetry last year in Guildford and the number of languauges spoken in Africa staggered us all. So when the material for 'Lingo' popped up in the Guardian, I knew I had to have a stab at something. Am glad it appealed and please feel free to do as you suggest (a brilliant piece of writing in your paper BTW).

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Thanks for the kind words Greg and regards, Graham

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Hello Greg.
Glad you liked Shandy Man, though I'm a bit concerned that you like to listen to me before you go to bed! Perhaps I should do you a cassette of bedtime stories to play you to sleep!

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It's been ages since I posted here, Greg, but I've just been catching up with all yours. You do seem to have been quite productive and all very good - as you can see from the very positive comments from everyone. On the subject of TEMPEST, it's definitely better than his last few. Personally I think he could have cut he last two tracks and made a pretty good vinyl album of 46 minutes. The Titanic song is a bit run of the mill and, although I know you're a big Lennon fan, I think 'Roll on John' is the worst track on it lyrically. A real dirge. You could do a lot better and,if I remember, already have!

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HI Greg,
Thanks for you congratulations on my WOL poem winning the comp. it was so unexpected. XX

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Hello Greg
Glad you liked "Whinge and Fucking Bleat", another of my lyrical masterpieces.
When I am dead and gone you will all recognise the contribution I have made to culture.

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Hello Greg - many thanks for the sight of the photos of the happy throng from the Olympic Road Race - "Hail Wiggins!!" I also enjoyed scrolling down to the Woking "sculpture" (three bare limbless tree trunks!) celebrating that famous pop group and loved the comment of a one-time member of the group in attendance at the "unveiling" that he felt "underwhelmed"! How many artists must know the feeling of being "damned with faint praise"? This luckless tree-carver didn't even enjoy that much!

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Hello Greg - I do hope that you and your fellow villagers enjoyed the cycle road race.
A little bit of European razzamatazz in the UK.
I was impressed at the sheer number of folk who
turned out...even more in places than I have
seen on mountain tops in the Tour de France!
At least the weather for the men's race was better than that endured by the unfortunate
girls the following day - when GB's brave
Lizzie Armistead won a silver - and eclipsed the men!

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Hi Greg - many thanks for your kind comments on 'Life's Towpath', great to have your feedback. :) Best wishes, Dave

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Hello Greg,
Glad you liked Out of Wine.
Yes indeed, Chris Farlowe. Handbags and Gladrags by Mike D'Abo. The original and still the best imo.
And quite right, a Jagger-Richards composition.

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Cheers for your note on Purple, Greg :)

Aye, it was almost called Sod Wearing Purple, but then I thought I'd save that for my opening line - when I wrote it I was thinking mainly of performing it :)Thanks again

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Ha - cheers Greg :D Aye, I reckon it'll perform quite well, although it'll miss some of the page jokes in the 'process' ;)

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Thanks Greg for comments on "bus boy" - you may be right. I was thinking of cutting the last line, now thinking maybe more pruning necessary! I guess, cos it was a real event (yesterday) and it seemed to be a bit of a happy ending for him I wanted to include it.

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Thanks for the feedback Greg. A bit disturbing to write too. Graham

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Thanks for commenting on First Impressions. Weirdly, I hadn't actually thought of it as a romance, more something which might have been but wasn't!

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Glad you liked 'you won't batter anymore', greg. A minor hitch with the cd is i cant sing and cant play.

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Hi Greg, sounds like I missed a good night. Next time maybe!

CHEERS. P.

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Greg, truly sorry I couldn't make Bugsy. Had 2 SSAFA cases for urgent re-homing and still ongoing. Hope it was a success though in spite of Woking's slushy Somme conditions. CHEERS.

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Hi Greg, 'Bugsy' bear with me while I do a trawl.

CHEERS. P.

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Re the computer emotions - glad you concur. This seems like a discussion thread in the blogs section but it was the only way I could include the audio, thx for commenting. Win

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Hi Again Greg. I believe the newspaper offices were near the pedestrian crossing opposite WH Smiths. They have now mooved to near the traffic lights and town hall. And also that the pub you mention could have been the Criketers or the now gone George. Win

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Hi Greg, Re John battering songs, I have strong boyhood memories of the Selby friers. There was this one chip shop right (On Gowthorpe in the middle of the town). We called it "Fatty Bowls'" The two elderly brothers serving were always decked out in matching white 'overalls' had slicked back pure white hair. Must get more accurate details from my mum. lol

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Hi Greg, Echoes. Many thanks for your kind comments which are always very much appreciated.

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Hello Greg.
No,I don't think Nelson had any hand in Copenhagen.
(In any event I'm not that squeamish about the fallibilities of great men)

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Hello Greg
Kind of you not to mention Black Sunday.
There was a lot of balls spoken about your 2nd goal. We didn't lose because it didn't cross the line; we lost because we didn't score six.

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Many thanks for the kind comments on my poems recently. Sorry I can’t offer a more personal thankyou but I’ve got gremlins in my machine which makes typing a comment over the internet take an eternity. Hence this rather impersonal catch-all done in Word and pasted on-line.
Notwithstanding, many thanks.

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agreed... nothing beats hemingway- or paris for that matter.

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Thanks for comment on Pump poem GReg. I think I posted it before, but I wanted to post it on FB with my brother's photo, and it's very handy how you can put poem & image on WOL and then link it to FB. THe wonders of modern technology. I think you've got some new things here as well, which I must catch up with.

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Hello Greg. I did embellish the effects of Newcy Broon a bit. It was, nevertheless, horrible. I drank it because it was cool (I was at Durham). It's main side effect on me was acidic indigestion of a nuclear order.
On another front, which of us is happier with the 0-0 draw yesterday?

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