And the poets make very loud growling noises at times.
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yes, I have heard that; and were I ever to venture to your country I would not go aaahhh and grab, well, anything really. Might record the growling. I've met Australian male growls before did I ever mention here that, as a joke, the one time warden or whatever he was called of the Coleridge Cottage in Nether Stowey, if asked which tree was the Lime Tree Bower, would point to a eucalyptus tree and keep his face straight L
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Koalas are best kept away from one's person, any point of one's person.
They look cute, but are not. And the blokes make very loud growling noises at times.
J
On 18/10/2012, at 11:14 PM, Lawrence Upton wrote:
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> I have a notional -- archetypal? -- koala bear in my head now. It's > feet are sticking out of my right ear.
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> Yes, I know the moving on thing after something doesn't stick, > electronically, and then - in my case - it doesn't matter. You write > then move on.
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> The Rolf H thing did occur to me as well, fleetingly > > On 18/10/2012, at 10:55 PM, Lawrence Upton wrote:
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>> I think it was Doug wrote about it yesterday and I started a long >> reply that brought in the Opies and god knows what and then > realised >> that I was in the wrong editor -- I forward from one to the other > at >> present and keep doing it. I think I have my own jiscmail server > just >> to send me messages asking who I am >> >> I was thinking that very few games really do involve originality >> >> you learn the words and the actions and you do them >> >> films may throw this into relief when they become source >> >> anyway this morning I found I hadn't got or couldn't find that >> message >> >> i had started to say as I realised that I couldn't send my message >> that I had moved on to speaking of the mother; but as I began to >> polish the line(s) I realised that I didn't need them or rather > that >> they got in the way >> >> or rather they began to turn the poem into a moralistic comment >> >> and there's far too much of that already >> >> >> >> and I am doing my best not to hum Two little boys by Rolf Harris >> >> >> >> thanks / best >> >> >> >> L >> >> >> >> Jill Jones [log in to unmask] [1] >> 09:10 (4 hours ago) Reply >> >> to POETRYETC >> >> >> >> Ah, that ending, that isn't >> >> On 18/10/2012, at 2:16 AM, Lawrence Upton wrote:
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