Very, very high, P.
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On Fri, 27 Oct 2017 at 2:28 AM, Patrick McManus <
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> Hi Bill I took the stilts to be very high heels cheers P
>
>
> On 25/10/2017 23:08, Bill Wootton wrote:
> > It was new to me too, Doug and Patrick. But in the annual Hepburn Springs
> > Swiss Italian Festa parade (the village was settled by Swiss Italians in
> > the 19th century) young local circus performers, mostly girls on quite
> high
> > stilts, marched along with the brass band and others. ‘Sprung’ was just
> the
> > name of their circus which performed in the afternoon but thinking now, I
> > suppose the name plays mineral springs, for which the area is renowned.
> > I did not know her, Doug. The ‘Ah’ was to indicate that I now could see
> the
> > reason for her agitation.(you try bending down to pick up anything from
> the
> > ground on stilts!)
> > Bill
> >
> > On Thu, 26 Oct 2017 at 3:39 am, Patrick McManus <
> > [log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi Bill thanks ah those stilted feet!!
> >>
> >> yes and what is Sprung Circus ?
> >>
> >>
> >> On 24/10/2017 23:25, Bill Wootton wrote:
> >>> Like a stuck stork
> >>> pivoting
> >>> from one stilted foot
> >>> to the other
> >>> she jab-points
> >>> both index fingers
> >>> down to the footpath
> >>> at her distant shoes.
> >>>
> >>> Traffic
> >>> keeps rolling by.
> >>>
> >>> I pull over.
> >>> Ah, I say,
> >>> handing up
> >>> the adhesive tape roll
> >>> she had dropped.
> >>>
> >>> Sprung Circus
> >>> must go on.
> >>>
> >>> bw
>
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