Wonderful little scene, Bill. (I've been off internet for a couple of days
-sorry.)
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On 27 October 2017 at 06:07, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Very, very high, P.
> B
>
> 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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