Hi Greg, I did visit the Paul Weller display - interesting wiggle into local history about which I felt much better informed especially after being demobbed into this area quite a while back from Pirbright.

I mentioned my visit to a local character who remembers well the man and his group way back to their rehearsal days in local pubs when the music proved too loud for some hard drinking dissenters who weren't very polite to said musicians.

I suppose the fact that PW politely turned down the offer of a CBE speaks volumes about the man. Liked some of his poems too.

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Thanks Greg (Infarcation) I agree with the suggested improvement and am grateful for the comment.

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Hi Greg, re; The Crossing Place, answer no, not yet but thanks for reminding me - will try to pop in soon.

Learned about the other life of the site from a former Surrey colleague. Best regards.

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Hi Greg Good to hook up again and thanks for the comment. I've been a bit tied up on other fronts recently and not writing much. Is Steve just be an observer these days? I don't seem to be able to contact him via WOL.

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Greg,
Only just noticed.
You left me a comment - Wigan or Blackpool?
I think the answer is Blackburn. I assume it was about my team's relegation prospects. Doesn't look good for the coming season though.
Dave

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Thanks for your thoughts on "No Better Ending".
I know what you mean about inserting "the A19". I always envy the Americans who can get away with introducing San Fransisco or New York or Chattanooga or Route 66 in a song and it's cool. Not the same romance about Doncaster or the A19.

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I wouldn't want you to rank these in order of greatest loss!

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Yes indeed Greg. We certainly wouldn't have words like "defensive", "indiscipline" and "congestion"! Nor probably a unique class system which pre-dates the Marxian concept of an industrial one.
And indeed, probably not one John COOPEY (couper = to cut).

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Thanks Greg, Yes One Winston to another. Played it in the car the other day and that line inspired the whole piece. Win x

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Glad you liked 'Dad's Justice' mate, thanks for the comment - 'Question 17' made me smile - it's a good take on the nosey nature of the Census

All the best

Dave

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..hello Greg..thanks...it's from a selection I wrote when researching the family tree...cheers..chris.

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Hi Greg thanks for commenting on Eastbourne Etchings and glad you enjoyed Smart Casual in particular - my plans to visit Reading this evening foiled disappointingly by a tickly throat and cough which might prove problematic to readers but was truly grateful for the offer of a lift - perhaps next time

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Hi Greg - thanks for the late flowering chrysanthemum comments on colours much appreciated

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Thanks for your kind comment on Watching Paint. I've added some new colours because Francine spotted that I'd included Scarlet Lake three times! I don't know how it's possible to write something and not spot these things yourself! :)

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thanks for the comments Greg on Summer is here I wrote this after getting soaked at lunchtime on Wednesday and thinking oh god - here we go again - I have no plans to perform it to be honest or indeed publish it truth be told.. It's a moment poem if that makes sense to you, but glad you like.. Andy

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Thanks for comments on WORKSHOP POEM. No doubt there are some workshops you can't forget!

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Many thanks for your comments, Greg. I like thought-provoking, glad it worked! X

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Greg,
More than happy for Prestatyn to go on your facebook page. Anything in the furtherance of high culture....

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I hoped you enjoyed it more than I enjoyed the holidays!

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Just joking Greg. I get my bus pass next year. I didn't realize it was going to make the front page!

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I think what you describe is common where those who have died are deeply loved and missed. One of my sisters experienced the same with her husband - could even smell his breath - it does make you wonder.

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Thanks Greg. It does seem a world away in terms of its innocence, doesn't it? I remember going to London on the train several times with my mates to go to Waterloo or Paddington to see those "foreign" regions. 13 years old and going to London on our own? These days you daren't let you kids go to school on their own till they're 21!

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Tee hee - the comment you left on my profile made me really chuckle. The date did seem a bit odd but I wasn't confident enough to have ever question it LOL. You are right in what you say about religion/faith also... x

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Greg
Thanks for the comment on Fergie, Fergie. Bravery doesn't come into it; I have stupidity on my side.

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Hi Greg

I only started supporting Everton in Autumn 1983 when my son decided he wanted to. Things were dismal then - it was before the great days of the mid 80s.

The game I particularly remember is the last of the 1987 season when we already had the title in the bag, beating Tottenham 1-0. The atmosphere in the stadium was fairly flat considering the achievement. You could cut the complacency with a knife - a lesson if there ever was one about sitting on your laurels in a competitive context.

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Hello Greg
Thanks for the comments on Big Issue and Sobibor. Mogadishu=Big Issue - a bit of a stretch, though, eh?
I did Sobibor after the story of the conviction of John Demjanjuk. It seemed to me that morality's an easy commodity when we're safely coccooned.

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Hi Greg - thanks for your comments on London Tube Map - underground trains are certainly spooky at night - writing about the map brought on other thoughts allied to claustrophobia such as getting stuck in a tube tunnel when powers fails - yuk

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You're always so kind with your comments Greg! I wasn't bird monitoring this time. It was just a three day break. But fog and wind and being on your own does not make for the best of holidays perhaps! I do better when I am combining doing something usefull with a holiday I think. It is an amazing place - I just felt that we didn't quite "take" to each other!

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Many thanks for your comments on Woking Junction Greg - not the first poem I've written about Woking's train system though - and having been in the military at Pirbright as a youngster I can personally vouch for some of the romantic goings on with squaddie types plus the harsh approach of the redcaps based at Inkerman throwing their weight about - monochrome days perhaps but I'm sure there were hands reaching out from windows of departing trains which never quite reached the loved one on the station before the steam and smoke obliterated the view.

Thank you for the comment on Newlands Corner Greg - appreciated.

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Yes, you could well be right about that Greg. Who was it said 'Once a Catholic.... ?'

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Hi Greg - Thanks! I'm off to Lundy for a few days - so hopefully lots of looking out to sea for me! (Where's those sea sickness pills?) :)

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Hello Greg
Thanks for the comments on Betty's. You're right about Harrogate. I think it was the original. There are about 5 now though, with 2 in York. You're also right about the genteel ambience. I imagine Betty's to be rather like the old Lyons tea houses - not that I remember them of course!

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thank you Greg, yes, thinking about that little bit of heaven on earth that is a bluebell wood here in the Dales did help. I took mum some bluebells from the garden into hospital but don't think she was able to see them as she wasn't really conscious of much but who knows? maybe the scent of them reached her, i hope so. I like that tune very much too, i used to play it on the flute (an old wooden one ala Matt Molloy style)thanks again,Debx

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Thanks for the feedback, Greg. I love that photo and have now discovered lots more by Willi Ronis. He's great and with a bit of luck I might possibly be able to do some more. He's got one called 'La Nue Provencale' which I really like as well. Thanks again for the article on WOL's news page.

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Hi Greg - Re; Old Brookwood Hospital - and not just Hilary whatshername - even I live on part of the old grounds though probably on a part where they housed the pig farms before the top-soil was removed and building began - thanks for commenting.

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Hi Greg - re: 'Underbelly' something I learned from you about Isherwood - thanks for commenting on this - don't forget to wash your soles in sheep dip or something cleansing next time you pass through the underpass at Woking

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Hi Greg - Re; Garden of Rest - inevitably some similarities on the elegeic theme but a constantly changing scene nevertheless - you remembered the other one very well - thanks for commenting

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Great to reaquaint in Mankinholes. It was a fine weekend of poetry and open discussion and exchange of ideas, oh and the odd drink. Win x

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Appreciate your comment - tucked in - like the notes themselves - tucked away all those years. Thank you Greg.

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Hi Greg Thanks as ever for your warm comments. I thought this one was going to slip under the radar! When I started it I ordered Elizabeth David's 'Harvest of the Cold Months' thinking it might give me some ideas, but I finished the poem before it arrived. Will have to try to do another Ice poem now to justify the tenner I spent on it!

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Thanks for your comment on the Yeung Sing Greg - glad you found it entertaining. Am sorry I couldn't make the WOL week-end - it was too much on top of last week-end - hopefull we will get chance to meet at summat in the future. It's good to hear that you are now on the admin team. x

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Hi Greg, re; RIP - sad old story as I know the parties involved - you might have read the summary in this week's Surrey Ad. Thanks for commenting.

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Hello Greg
Thanks for your comments on 84-0.
It is almost a complete copy (idea/structure/rhyming pattern) of a poem by Pam Ayres called 13-0 (complete change there then!). Hers was about her son's debut in the school football team rather like your experience.
Incidentally I have a secret admiration for PA (a crush) whom I think is enormously under-rated.

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Oooh! You were at the WOL thing were you - wish I'd had time to go. I loved it last time! Hope it was good! (I'm sure it was!)xx

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cheers Mr Freeman for comments on 'Tynonidae'I had left a line out by mistake(listens intensely)pardon late reply-just back from hols-thanks Greg.

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Hi Greg - re: Full Astern - could write a book on some of these experiences and those seen through others eyes in the aftermath (and during) war around Merseyside - appreciate your comments about a true event still lingering in the mind

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Hi Greg; - glad you like 'Spring is Coming'.. Oddly enough I had this morning going to work, but that was more fog based... Not fun atall! lol

Glad you liked it anyhow.

Cheers

Andy N

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I've just been catching up with your recent poems. (All very good and hope you've seen my posts.) I was inspired to put my latest on after reading your recent railway poems.

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Re: Jacob's Ladder as you so correctly infer is the link between this world and the next as well as a colloquial term for the rope ladder on the side of a ship - your comments always appreciated kind sir.

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Hi Greg - re; Mal De Mer - tis true I was a merchant seaman in my youth - thanks for commenting

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