Dave go round the back of the supermarket get the out of date champers and
moutard happy seasonings P
Keep your sweet self spreading joy thickly on this forum all those long
words I have learnt this year
P in snow cottle comfy hibernating
-----Original Message-----
From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
Behalf Of David Bircumshaw
Sent: 21 December 2010 18:24
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Subject: Re: Seasonal Greeting's from Frederick of Prussia
Don't be silly, Patrick, I can't afford mustard.
On 21 December 2010 08:58, Patrick McManus
<[log in to unmask]>wrote:
> David Joseph Bircumshaw is apparently found of adding champagne and
> mustard
> to his coffee.the secret is out long live Leicester!
>
> Cheers Patrick besnowed
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> Behalf Of David Bircumshaw
> Sent: 20 December 2010 19:32
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Seasonal Greeting's from Frederick of Prussia
>
> *Frederick the Great's
> Christmas Preparation*
>
>
> *Advent Offensive*
>
> Obtain two large rubber boots (preferably same footed for inconvenience to
> the lower orders. See later.) Nota Bene: not Wellingtons. Procure one
quart
> of rough brandy, preferably from under a Spaniard's nose at breakfast, a
> magnum of any Grand Cru champagne, the more expensive the better, and two
> bottles of alleged cooking sherry from *Happy Saturdays* off-licence, 95
> Al-Fireis Road, Sneinton, Nottingham, near Sherwood Forest, England.
Admire
> the social disjunctions.
>
>
> *Sankt Stockade*
>
> Avoid agitated Spaniard. Prepare one cup of your finest, favourite,
> darkest,
> ground coffee. Allow to drip meditatively. Scan any possible horizons for
> passing galleons, map-makers or magi. Compose tome on the socio-economic
> obsolescence of shepherds. Exchange a nod *avec Voltaire*.
>
>
> *Herbst Enfilade*
>
> Take one large jar of German mustard (obtainable from any local hardware
> store or chemists). Paste throughout boots, liberally. Pour in coffee,
> brandy, sherry and champagne, in that precise order, order is all, 's
exact
> precise price, dusting in between with hog hair and sawdust.
>
>
> *Winter Garrison*
>
> Impress Swabian peasant. March impressed peasant around parade-ground
> square
> for two months in full battle-gear. *O my bombardier*. Exact price order.
> Be
> proclaimed among remote provinces. Hunch above maps and dialects. Stalk
the
> borders of irreverent detail and rumbunctious gazetteers. Deny the
> allegations of unnatural stars. Recite the Odes of Anachronism. Upend
> Swabian and strain out winter warmer. *Waes thu hael.*
>
>
>
>
> *(Frederick the Great was apparently found of adding champagne and
mustard
> to his coffee. I have altered the recipe, as well as other facts,
> somewhat.)
> *
>
>
>
>
>
> --
> David Joseph Bircumshaw
> 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
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>
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David Joseph Bircumshaw
Website and A Chide's Alphabet
http://www.staplednapkin.org.uk
The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html
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