Nice poem, Dave, tho I have no idea what it has to do with Kent. Unless "speck" is meant to be read as the German word for ham.
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>From: David Bircumshaw <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Jul 11, 2012 3:36 PM
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>Subject: Re: Snap for Kent
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>I agree about the abomination, Doug, as far as cream goes. I better
>underscore that 'Kent' is 'KJ' as in Kent Johnson.and 'speck' might suggest
>'Spectra' and 'AK' is initials that can be linked to both.
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>:)
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>On 11 July 2012 18:07, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> Neat. I also 'saw' 'white drones' for some reason.... But this is England,
>> eh?
>>
>> The near & the far (but I consider cream or milk in tea an abomination,
>> Dave).
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>> Doug
>> On 2012-07-11, at 12:45 AM, David Bircumshaw wrote:
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>> > *Speck*
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>> > *
>> > *
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>> > *an AK for KJ*
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>> > Would not in the early morning
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>> > my mind start toward the East.
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>> > There are white domes somewhere
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>> > under that blue and emptied sky, white domes, white domes,
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>> > therefore even the cream
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>> > is burnished safest yellow.
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>> > Cream it is and better than lemon
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>> > in the first tea at breakfast.
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>> > I think of tigers as eating the sun
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>> > and drinking lemons.
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>> >
>> > These teabags come from a green grocer,
>> >
>> > not the long blue miles to Ceylon.
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>> > The herring boats set out
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>> > toward the red shoals.
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>> >
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