Jill
I'm never live down those commas! As I think I said, I deliberately posted a
'just-writ' first draft, only 20 minutes old. When I do the first
'roughcast' I either splay punctuation all over the place or put in none at
all, and then clean up the mess later.
I am chuckling about it.
The heating will kick in at noon. Taipei, eh, for Christmas? Nice! Really
we've had a very mild winter, blackbirds were still about in early December,
as well as drowsy late in their lives dying flies.
Best
Dave
David Bircumshaw
Leicester, England
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Jill Jones" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, December 22, 2001 11:14 AM
Subject: Re: Poem by NonStopNY (inspired by: McCrae's "In Flanders Fields"
[1915])
> on 22/12/01 9:59 PM, david.bircumshaw at [log in to unmask]
> wrote:
>
> >> And it was bloody 'umid today but not so hot as it has been. Imagine
being
> > a
> >> store Santa in Sydney.
> >>
> >> Sweaty of Sydney,
> >> Jill
> >
> > Sounds like a fate that should be reserved for merchant bankers and
other
> > benefactors of humankind. Here it's freezing, snowing on the East
Anglian
> > coast and up in Geordieland while some very dumb people (ahem) have
> > forgotten to put the storage heaters on overnight and are consequently
> > shivering (knees knocking, teeth chattering, sounds of)
>
>
> Dave,
>
> Well, there have been reports of snow in Hobart recently. Fine weather for
> penguins I guess.
>
> As for NewSouthbloodyWales, what can you say about a state whose Summer
> solstice temps run (from memory of tonight's weather) from 5 degrees
> (centigrade, that is) to over 40 degrees?
>
> I'm looking forward to winter in Taipei where I'll be from Christmas Day
for
> a fortnight. Quite a nice 11 to 19, centigrade, range but packing the
> thermals just in case.
>
> Hope you've got some good heating.
>
> Cheers,
> Jill
>
>
> P.S. I liked the 'slow fucks' - in yr pome that is. And 'burnt' and hurt'
in
> the third line. Good one - but I agree with Peter about some of the commas
> but, then, I'm trying to wipe them out of my own work so am biased.
>
>
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