;-) Rockshire. On 1 October 2011 12:55, David Bircumshaw <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > They have different monks on rocks in alternative shires Judy. > > > On 1 October 2011 12:28, Judy Prince <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > >> Surely there are rocks closer to home. For you, David, a rock poem writ >> by me, titleless as yet: >> >> A monk sat on a rock for hours, >> awaiting divine visitation. >> What he got was a revelation: >> a sore bum means the rock won, >> so he moved under an apple tree >> (he was not the brightest bulb >> in the drawer). >> >> On 1 October 2011 12:06, David Bircumshaw <[log in to unmask]>wrote: >> >>> Beethoven quarreled with everybody therefore he must have been a poet. >>> Can't stop: it seems I'm going to Oxford tomorrow to look at some rocks. >>> >>> >>> On 1 October 2011 09:51, Judy Prince <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >>> >>>> Well, I sat in the sun, wrote 2 minor poems, grilled beefburgers and >>>> cluttered the laminated worktops. I hadn't known Beethoven ('I ain't deaf; >>>> I'm ignoring you') was a poet. His new group sounds grand. >>>> >>>> On 1 October 2011 07:14, David Bircumshaw <[log in to unmask]>wrote: >>>> >>>>> Well I put up a new bathroom mirror yesterday (this involved using a >>>>> power drill, a T-square and a spirit level) AND I've laminated my work tops. >>>>> So there :) While I've taken up courses on both Beethoven and the >>>>> Existentialists (almost a name for a group) as I'm wearying of the stunted >>>>> minds of minor poets. Flourish. So double there :) >>>>> >>>>> On 30 September 2011 16:21, Alec Newman < >>>>> [log in to unmask]> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> What's 'snarkiness'? Something to do with the great L. C. ? >>>>>> >>>>>> Anyway, loads has changed: there's the new fudge shop, I'm a Dad, I've >>>>>> got a mutilated hand, I've got a different computer, I've stopped smoking, >>>>>> and I'm drinking a different brand of coffee, and I've finally laminated my >>>>>> work tops. >>>>>> >>>>>> Alec. >>>>>> >>>>>> > Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2011 07:24:07 -0500 >>>>>> > From: [log in to unmask] >>>>>> > Subject: Re: Just imagine if all of those poets had shown up with >>>>>> tools in their hands >>>>>> > To: [log in to unmask] >>>>>> >>>>>> > >>>>>> > much easier to propagate snarkiness than to actually change >>>>>> something... >>>>>> > >>>>>> > On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 5:42 AM, <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >>>>>> > > They could have actually changed something. >>>>>> > > >>>>>> > > Jess >>>>>> > > >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> David Joseph Bircumshaw >>>>> "The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe >>>>> is that none of it has tried to contact us." >>>>> - Calvin & Hobbes >>>>> Website and A Chide's Alphabet >>>>> http://www.staplednapkin.org.uk >>>>> The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html >>>>> Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/david.bircumshaw >>>>> twitter: http://twitter.com/bucketshave >>>>> blog: http://groggydays.blogspot.com/ >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> David Joseph Bircumshaw >>> "The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe >>> is that none of it has tried to contact us." >>> - Calvin & Hobbes >>> Website and A Chide's Alphabet >>> http://www.staplednapkin.org.uk >>> The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html >>> Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/david.bircumshaw >>> twitter: http://twitter.com/bucketshave >>> blog: http://groggydays.blogspot.com/ >>> >> >> > > > -- > David Joseph Bircumshaw > "The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is > that none of it has tried to contact us." > - Calvin & Hobbes > Website and A Chide's Alphabet > http://www.staplednapkin.org.uk > The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html > Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/david.bircumshaw > twitter: http://twitter.com/bucketshave > blog: http://groggydays.blogspot.com/ >