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Yes, Andrew, add to those pictures, and also write down your excursions. My own penchant for dog poems has elicited this, in a review of my book (in the journal "Meridian") by Peter Steele: Dogs proliferate in these engaging poems, being there I imagine for their own doggy sake, but partly like the rod in a diviner's hands, to pick up on the sources of life and stimulation. Of poetical dogs, Steele writes: each is to a degree the poet in masquerade, taking the temper of the world, and at every turn showing a little more of the self on its watch. As for our Aussie season, antidote for the northern chill, I attended carols last night in St Paul's Anglican Cathedral Melbourne. Warm evening, many women had bare shoulders, only the clergy seemed overdressed. On the way out I could not avoid shaking hands with the archbishop (his ornate crook - what's the word for it? - gripped in his left hand). He joked to the guy ahead of me about football, even though it's not the footy season. Max Quoting Susan Holahan <[log in to unmask]>: > Thanks so much for the pictures in your blog. The best possible > antidote to the streets full of dirty snow here. > > I need the reminder that you've got summer now, but that's an enviable > walk, year-round. > > Good morning-- > > Susan H. > > > > On Dec 24, 2008, at 9:07 AM, andrew burke wrote: > > > Patrick - I don't know the measure of it, but it takes forty minutes. > > > > And, Frederick, it is the Swan River - broad in one place called Perth > > Waters, in the lap of the city, then river-sized down to the ocean at > > Fremantle port, but feed from many tributaries up river inland. (A > > small > > escarpment which you would never called a range.) > > > > Judy - I actually live in one of Perth's oldest suburbs, Bassendean, > > but we > > live across the way from wetlands which extend a couple of blocks > > down to > > the banks of the river. Great! Can never be built out. Much birdlife > > in > > various seasons, photos of which I will endeavour to post as the > > seasons > > change. > > > > Cheers - and good night on this Chrissie Eve ... > > > > Andrew > > > > 2008/12/24 Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]> > > > >> Andrew And were the reindeer in the walk ? > >> Liked Fanthorpe poem > >> Patrick > >> Ps how far do tou walk -Idid running a bit on the spot the other > >> day and > >> later got severe cramp /sciatica !! > >> P new years res to play table tennis again -or attempt to! > >> > >> > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics > >> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On > >> Behalf Of andrew burke > >> Sent: 24 December 2008 11:36 > >> To: [log in to unmask] > >> Subject: Walking the Dog > >> > >> Please take a gander at my blog - not at all Christmassy, but this > >> is where > >> I walk each day, with my walking companions. I've seen other people's > >> walks, > >> particulalry Stephen Vincent's, and I thought my bushy walk may > >> have some > >> interest for people in 'big' cities. > >> > >> Merry jolly & happy holly - > >> > >> > >> Andrew > >> http://hispirits.blogspot.com/ > >> No virus found in this incoming message. > >> Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com > >> Version: 8.0.176 / Virus Database: 270.10.0/1862 - Release Date: > >> 23/12/2008 > >> 12:08 > >> > > > > > > > > -- > > Andrew > > http://hispirits.blogspot.com/ > ------------------------------------------------------------ This email was sent from Netspace Webmail: http://www.netspace.net.au