Thanks, all. Pretty much a found poem, albeit manipulated at the end. Like you said, Millicent, there did seem to be links between those words. And Tuesday here was Melbourne Cup Day, a horse racing holiday in Victoria, at which a certain number of befrocked ladies in the crowd would certainly have been wearing fascinators, had it not been a ‘naked race’ with all stands empty due to Covid risk. Bill On Wed, 4 Nov 2020 at 11:13 pm, [log in to unmask] < [log in to unmask]> wrote: > cheers Bill capturing our times > > ------ Original Message ------ > From: "Bill Wootton" <[log in to unmask]> > To: [log in to unmask] > Sent: Tuesday, 3 Nov, 2020 At 20:31 > Subject: Masked days > On and off yesterday > it took > at least two hours > to come up > with FASCINATE > as the solution > to the daily newspaper nine-letter anagram > and yet today > one look > and SUFFOCATE > leapt from the page > > Must get around > to loosening my mask > > bw > ######################################################################## > To unsubscribe from the POETRYETC list, click the following link: > https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/WA-JISC.exe?SUBED1=POETRYETC&A=1 > <https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/WA-JISC.exe?SUBED1=POETRYETC&A=1> > This message was issued to members of www.jiscmail.ac.uk/POETRYETC, a > mailing list hosted by www.jiscmail.ac.uk, terms & conditions are > available at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/policyandsecurity/ > <https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/policyandsecurity/> > > ######################################################################## > > To unsubscribe from the POETRYETC list, click the following link: > https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/WA-JISC.exe?SUBED1=POETRYETC&A=1 > > This message was issued to members of www.jiscmail.ac.uk/POETRYETC, a > mailing list hosted by www.jiscmail.ac.uk, terms & conditions are > available at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/policyandsecurity/ > ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the POETRYETC list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/WA-JISC.exe?SUBED1=POETRYETC&A=1 This message was issued to members of www.jiscmail.ac.uk/POETRYETC, a mailing list hosted by www.jiscmail.ac.uk, terms & conditions are available at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/policyandsecurity/