'Its' after mortality of course, not 'it's'. Curs-ed typos, curs-ed glaring
screens :)
On 15 January 2014 23:15, David Bircumshaw <[log in to unmask]>wrote:
> Ta Bill. Here the weather has been not quite zero in the daytime and the
> coasts have been reminded of being an island in northern winter. We went by
> train one day to Nottingham last week and the Soar in its lower reaches was
> waterlogging the grazing fields of north west Leicestershire while even old
> Grand-Father Trent had been disturbed and some of the lakes at Attenborough
> had overflowed their banks. The fox was a problem: I changed the 'our' to
> 'the' back and forth several times. I also had 'foxes' and both 'vixen' and
> 'vixens' as well as 'scatter/s' for 'hide/s'. a little explanation part
> one: although I live on the edge of a city centre in a tower block between
> two arterial roads 'we' do have 'our' resident fox. or rather the
> impression of 'one'. Said fox might be a succession of ones, particularly
> if male, but possibly less so if female. Vixens do retain their territory
> while males are ejected upon adulthood. It is estimated, I understand, that
> about one third of Britain's fox population dies each winter, with
> mortality at it's highest among the young males. Explanation part two - I
> was using externals to write about interiors - I am a kind of philosophical
> materialist who also likes Bishop Berkeley and more. Thanks again for your
> kind words - the question of ownership did trouble me, but it was one of an
> image only :)
>
>
> best
>
> Dave
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> On 15 January 2014 19:40, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> I'd like a bit of hush to the weather in my pillow thanks, David. 44
>> dagger degrees expected today here in Melbourne after previous days of 43
>> and 42. The wind is saving its argument until tomorrow apparently when full
>> throated fire risks gape. I love Primitive. One query about the sense of
>> ownersip of foxes.
>>
>> Bill
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>> > On 16 Jan 2014, at 3:53 am, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>
>> wrote:
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>> > I like the 'as if' of it all, David...
>> >
>> > Doug
>> >> On Jan 15, 2014, at 3:37 AM, David Bircumshaw <
>> [log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Haven't done one of these for a while, so here's a little exercise:
>> >>
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>> >>
>> >> * Primitive*
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>> >>
>> >> All night the rain has argued with the wind.
>> >>
>> >> A balloon turns at its mooring, as if adrift
>> >>
>> >> In the hushed pillowed weather of my head.
>> >>
>> >> Our foxes hide as the dawn’s throats wake.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> --
>> >> David Joseph Bircumshaw
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>> > by dawn’s 40-watt moon
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> David Joseph Bircumshaw
> Website and A Chide's Alphabet
> http://www.staplednapkin.org.uk
> The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html
> Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/david.bircumshaw
> twitter: http://twitter.com/bucketshave
> blog: http://groggydays.blogspot.com/
> Leicester Poetry Society: http://www.poetryleicester.com
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David Joseph Bircumshaw
Website and A Chide's Alphabet
http://www.staplednapkin.org.uk
The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/david.bircumshaw
twitter: http://twitter.com/bucketshave
blog: http://groggydays.blogspot.com/
Leicester Poetry Society: http://www.poetryleicester.com
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