tee hee, toot, toot, L. You are a fun(ne)d.
B
> On 13 Jun 2014, at 8:22 pm, Lawrence Upton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> It means "the Romans are coming"
> like the whistle tooting in Adalen 31, if you know that film
> and in come the Romans led by Boris Johnson, nightmare of London, followed
> by three renovated German water cannon -- I don't know if you get such
> details of our news. In an attempt to build bridges with the public, the
> police want to spray us with high pressure water.
> Asked how that helps stop looting, the police replied "Move along now"
> Boris has volunteered to be attacked by a water cannon, to show it is safe.
> As the last riots were caused when the police shot an unarmed man, it would
> be more apposite to shoot him; under controlled conditions, of course
> That's the Launceston, I meant. Pronounced Lanson. from Lan Stefan, sacred
> place of St Stephen
>
> toodle pip
>
> L
>
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>> On 13 June 2014 05:05, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>> So Tooting means Roman, L? I did wonder. We have Launceston in northern
>> Tasmania.
>>
>> B
>>
>>> On 12/06/2014, at 7:53 PM, Lawrence Upton wrote:
>>>
>>> Do.
>>> It's "always" been there. (They used to think the Romans founded London
>> but
>>> keep finding quite large structures from way back. TG is on a Roman road
>>> and that, it's said, is what Tooting means via a lost item of the a-s
>>> vocab. Graveney is a Norman family name, and the Normans still run the
>>> country. There's a Graveney near Faversham in Kent (a one time major
>>> port)... that I can only explain by reference to the creation of myself
>> and
>>> a friend in yoof, the Royal Society of Transportation of Towns, which
>>> builds duplicates nationally and internationally as part of job creation.
>>> There's a Streatham, where I used to live, next to TG, somewhere in East
>>> Anglia I believe + of course London Ontario and Launcester in your own
>>> sunburnt country etc et cetera
>>>
>>> L
>>>
>>>
>>>> On 12 June 2014 07:27, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I'll add Tooting Graveney to Wandle as another t'riffic name. L, P.
>>>>
>>>> B
>>>>
>>>>> On 12/06/2014, at 1:19 AM, Lawrence Upton wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> He was, the sad creature. The Graveney is a tributary of the Wandle and
>>>> you
>>>>> could see it about to go underground a mile or so south of my parents
>>>> house
>>>>> in Tooting Graveney. That house had a coal cellar. In the winter it was
>>>>> inches deep in water. There were something like 40 houses along one
>> side
>>>> of
>>>>> our road where there had been 4 in the days that Johnson went sniffing
>>>>> after the scent of Mrs Thrale - you could spit at Thrale Rd from where
>> I
>>>>> was teenaged, and sometimes I did. Presumably the forces of Edwardian
>>>>> capitalism decided there was no need to allow a space to the ghost of a
>>>>> river.
>>>>>
>>>>> Anyway, dear boy, do show respect to our natural powers. Let's live by
>>>>> British values.
>>>>>
>>>>> pip pip
>>>>>
>>>>> L
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 11 June 2014 16:13, Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> William Morris was the man picked the Wandle and inspired -News
>> From
>>>>>> Nowhere
>>>>>> P
>>>>>> Ps sorry L to offend your mighty river
>>>>>>
>>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>>> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>>>> On
>>>>>> Behalf Of Lawrence Upton
>>>>>> Sent: 11 June 2014 12:41
>>>>>> To: [log in to unmask]
>>>>>> Subject: Re: pat snap 630 !"!"!"
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Pat as a citizen once of and now near the Wandle I take issue with
>> your
>>>>>> description of its being piddling. Too much re and misdirection; but
>> in
>>>> its
>>>>>> unaltered state it was a substantial Thames tributary and a major
>>>> centre of
>>>>>> early industrialisation
>>>>>>
>>>>>> L
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 11 June 2014 12:35, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Pat, I laughed. Like the local content too. But you might consider
>>>>>>> butting out one of your buts. Two buts throws readers out. Line 4
>>>>>>> could simply begin, 'It was' for instance without disarming your
>> flow.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Bill
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> On 11 Jun 2014, at 6:39 pm, Patrick McManus <
>>>>>>>> [log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> RIVER
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I am not
>>>>>>>> criticising
>>>>>>>> she said
>>>>>>>> but it was
>>>>>>>> all very well
>>>>>>>> naming our son
>>>>>>>> Moses
>>>>>>>> but isn't it
>>>>>>>> a bit much
>>>>>>>> to make a cradle
>>>>>>>> to tar it
>>>>>>>> to float it
>>>>>>>> in the river
>>>>>>>> after all
>>>>>>>> the Wandle
>>>>>>>> is hardly
>>>>>>>> the Nile
>>>>>>>> and as far
>>>>>>>> as I know
>>>>>>>> there are no
>>>>>>>> Pharaoh's Daughters
>>>>>>>> living in
>>>>>>>> Earlsfield
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> pmcmanus
>>>>>>>> r573
>>>>>>>> some here will know this but
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> River Wandle is a local piddling River Earlsfied -is a sub-suburbia
>>>>>>>> nearby This inspired by partner suddenly taking up a writing course
>>>>>>>> -subject
>>>>>>> 'River
>>>>>>>> Wandle'
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