> Hello Matt,
             Thanks for your comments, I´m playing around with those suggestions.


Best wishes,   Mike



> Lähettäjä: "Merritt, Matt - Leic. Mercury"              <[log in to unmask]>
> Päiväys: 2004/09/16 to PM 12:28:34 GMT+03:00
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> Aihe: Re: [PK] Huh, call that summer?+new sub
> 
> Hi Mike,
> Nice to see you back, and I enjoyed this piece. The first three lines are a
> great lead-in.
> I think if I were to suggest any changes they would be the same as Ann's,
> but it's a good read either way.
> Regards,
> Matt
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> Of Mike Horwood
> Sent: 15 September 2004 08:55
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> Subject: Re: [PK] Huh, call that summer?+new sub
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> > 
> > Huh, call that summer? It felt more like a cold shower.
> > Hello troops. I believe at the start of the summer break I suggested 
> > that those few bods who were vacationing somewhat further south of the 
> > arctic circle than we stalwart souls who chose to pass the season 
> > inside Finland´s border were lost. In the event, however, it rather 
> > looks as if they knew something the rest of us didn´t. Oh well, I 
> > suppose it would be naive to expect a summer in Finland without 
> > rain.....a little less of it would have been nice though. And on that 
> > theme, here´s a rather wistful little piece.
> > 
> > Welcome back, Mike. Thanks, it´s good to be here.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Wine, Women and Song
> > 
> > Like a difficult wine,
> > made of a sensitive grape,
> > summer here often fails.
> > But one year in ten
> > there are days when the air
> > is as soft on the skin
> > as a lover´s caress,
> > so unlike the burning sand
> > and dry thirst of southern lands.
> > 
> > Days that live in the memory
> > like the notes of a favourite melody
> > recalled through the years.
> > 
> > Memories to be sipped,
> > as one sips an amber Sauternes,
> > the essence of summer on the tongue
> > like the taste of the tongue
> > of a lover who left long ago.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Mike
> > 
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