Thanks all for kind remarks -super advanced retirement it will be!!!!perhaps a gold plated zimmer!! Have just given up running a poets group after decades to let some new blood flow perhaps one of those fifty year old youngsters or a child in it's thirties or forties!!!! Or Babe in arms in their twenties fifty years my younger:-) I am now too busy counting and spending all these royalties!! P beroyaltied -----Original Message----- From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Barry Alpert Sent: 03 February 2011 16:35 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: good start to the day Will your royalties enable you to come out of retirement, or will you enter into advanced retirement? Barry On Thu, 3 Feb 2011 07:38:23 -0000, Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >Publisher phoned up and said I owe you royalties------a new phenomena for >me!!! -am I royal ? it money apparently !!!money out of poetry publishing >??? > >La la lade dahh da >deee---.................................................................... . >......................................