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> I'm quite sure that many list members are hardly strangers to financial > difficulties or personal grief or social marginalisation. Even if they were > not, it's no license to troll. Alison, this is poor language. Whom exactly have I been 'trolling' whatever that off-the-peg slang word exactly means? I have no personal attacks on anyone on this list in this, erm, debate, the only personalised remarks have been directed at me, but I'm used to stuff like that. Reality: just been round with Victoria on her morning walk, she has to do these as she might end up in hospital, she grips my arm with fear at the traffic, we need, after 9 am, to get her phone reconnected, contact the Red Cross for a better walking frame for her, sort out a doctor's appointment, find out, if possible, whever her second eldest will be going to court in Nottingham this week (we know he'll get sent down btw) this while I've got one eye open because of conjunctivitis while living in fear of a resurgence of my own demon of alcoholism (which is a condition I'd wish on nobody) Now I hope that sketch gives a whiff of where I am and that it makes clear that listserve squabbles are peripheral to me. Btw I consider myself very lucky that I have people like Vicky who share their human love with me. Very lucky fella indeed. Best Dave ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alison Croggon" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Monday, March 20, 2006 7:19 AM Subject: Re: Snap/3-15-06--"The God Thing" > On 20/3/06 5:14 PM, "David Bircumshaw" <[log in to unmask]> > wrote: > > > Personal bile? - no, no, although I am aware that the peculiar nature of > > e-mail discussions can make things sound so, notice that word 'sound' used > > in application to a written medium, therein lies the paradox of e-mail: it's > > talk, and loose as such, but talk written on stone. > > Dave, if your earlier messages are just about being tone deaf, I wonder how > you manage poetry. > > I'm quite sure that many list members are hardly strangers to financial > difficulties or personal grief or social marginalisation. Even if they were > not, it's no license to troll. > > Best > > A > > > Alison Croggon > > Blog: http://theatrenotes.blogspot.com > Editor, Masthead: http://masthead.net.au > Home page: http://alisoncroggon.com