Gosh, me too.
New “English’ words, eh.
And an old codger’s birthday to celebrate tomorrow…
Doug
On Mar 13, 2015, at 8:57 AM, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Congratulations, Patrick.
>
> I see from the subject heading you have turned 679.
>
> And thanks for teaching me the word
>
> cottles.
>
> Definition of COTTLE
>
> 1
> : a band or wall typically of clay that encircles an object to be molded and determines the outer extremity of the completed mold
> 2
> : a cylinder usually of waterproof paper used for retaining plaster-of-paris slurry around a mold or form
>
>
> On Mar 13, 2015, at 4:47, Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> CAN IT BE?
>>
>> can it be possible?
>> can it be true?
>> that in my street
>> my cul de sac
>> ninety odd houses
>> Edwardian cottles
>> that I am now
>> the oldest man!
>> oldest old fogey
>> but certainly the
>> oldest old poet
>> well that's
>> worth a poem
>> and it is
>> my birthday
>> yet again
>> tomorrow!
>>
>>
>> pmcmanus
>> r742
>
Douglas Barbour
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Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations & Continuation 2 (UofAPress).
Recording Dates (Rubicon Press).
There is no life that does not rise
melodic from scales of the marvelous.
To which our grief refers.
Robert Duncan.
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