Doesn't have to be Notepad Bill, but it must be plain text and not a word-processor format. Word
will save .txt files. Don't know about fancy new-fangled things like Ipads.
Roger
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Wootton" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2012 1:48 PM
Subject: Re: First post - Notepadding it
Thanks, Roger. I will attempt to do what you say. Not sure that I can download Notepad to my
I-pad so I will have to try it on the desktop.
Cheers,
Bill
On 22/05/2012, at 10:34 PM, Roger Collett <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Welcome Bill,
>
> Just a tip.
> When you post here don't cut and paste from Word.
> Use a text file from something like Notepad and you wont get the surplus linefeeds.
>
> Nice to have a new subscriber.
> Roger Collett
> Arrowhead Press
> http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/
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> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill Wootton" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2012 1:17 PM
> Subject: First post
>
>
> Hi all.
>
> Geez you are a hard lot to tap into. Thanks Max, Uche et al for walking me through the
> subscription minefields.
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> Now, is this what I do? Attach a poem and await comment?
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>
>
> Surrounded by Competents
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> Everyone seems to know what to do.
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> I am bewildered.
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> Stepping in to the breach seems so natural for others.
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> Whenever I do, it’s as a rabbit in the headlights.
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> The hands of others manoeuvre and tinkle.
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> Mine hold, at best.
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> Everyone’s a player or wants to be.
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> I spectate.
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> It seems so natural to get involved.
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> For me, it’s always an effort.
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> Competent tradies do and do and do.
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> I am awed by their air of efficiency and sureness.
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> I panic into offering what unskilled assistance I can.
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> Initiativelessly.
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> Even opinions seem ready on the lips of others
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> While mine, such as they are, I have to summon.
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> Are they kidding? I wonder.
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> My natural tendency is to wait.
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> My blood pressure is lizard low.
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> The world seems full of pulsing bubblers.
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> Tentativeness is both my opening and fallback position.
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> Footholds are all I gain.
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> Cooking: I still can’t quite acknowledge
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> the transformation from raw to plateworthy.
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> Cars: how the hell do they work ?
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> At 55, I’m no closer to knowing than I was at 5.
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> Turn the key, flick the switch.
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> I accept the consequent changes ignorantly.
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> I suppose it is pleasant enough. I wouldn’t say
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> I’m wide-eyed. More even-eyed: seeing without discernment.
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> So long as the world doesn’t betray my naiveté.
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> Bill Wootton 15.4.12
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