Just to add to the chorus of welcome back for Doug: I wondered where he'd got to. I hope Venice didn't leave him with a sinking feeling. A friend of mine told me she loved the place but it was too expensive to even window-shop there - she felt glad to to come out finding she still afford to breathe. (hope you like the jokes, Doug) 2008/6/22 Anny Ballardini <[log in to unmask]>: > I am answering this message of Douglas, to show that his notes are up and > visible on Poetryetc... > to which I second Sheila's wish for Doug, :-) > > On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 4:58 PM, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> > wrote: > >> I'm going to try really hard, max, not to do that. >> >> On the other hand, I do have Facebook site... >> >> Doug >> On 20-Jun-08, at 5:46 PM, Max Richards wrote: >> >> When our friends got back from several countries, they showed us their pix >>> on their big tv screen. I dozed through Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia, and >>> have promised to try again, should they ask me back. >>> >> >> Douglas Barbour >> [log in to unmask] >> >> http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/ >> >> Latest books: >> Continuations (with Sheila E Murphy) >> http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=664 >> Wednesdays' >> >> http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2008/03/new-from-aboveground-press_10.html >> >> A nation that expects to be ignorant and free, and in a state of >> civilization, expects what never was and never will be. -- >> Thomas Jefferson >> > > > > -- > Anny Ballardini > http://annyballardini.blogspot.com/ > http://www.fieralingue.it/modules.php?name=poetshome > http://www.moriapoetry.com/ebooks.html > I Tell You: One must still have chaos in one to give birth to a dancing > star! > -- David Bircumshaw Website and A Chide's Alphabet http://homepage.ntlworld.com/david.bircumshaw/ The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html Leicester Poetry Society: http://www.poetryleicester.co.uk