Thanks, Patrick, Andrew, Doug.
Bill
On Thu, 15 Jun 2017 at 1:20 am, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> Yeah, the memory kicks in, Bill. Although the names etc are rather local,
> meaning little to those of us outside Oz. So I get the basic meaning, but
> not the specifics. Not really something you can do anything about…
>
> Doug
> > On Jun 14, 2017, at 3:59 AM, Andrew Burke <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >
> > Shares the delight well!
> >
> > Andrew
> >
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> > On 14 June 2017 at 17:57, Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]
> >
> > wrote:
> >
> >> cheers Bill you getting a whole collection of these memories -could be a
> >> book here!!
> >>
> >> cheers P
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On 14/06/2017 10:31, Bill Wootton wrote:
> >>
> >>> Taking it in turns
> >>> to run a kick's length ahead,
> >>> brother Dan and I
> >>> short-passed and marked
> >>> the brand new ripe red leather Sherrin
> >>> all the way up Robinhood Road.
> >>>
> >>> Neither of us had dared to believe
> >>> the prize we'd won for filling out a coupon
> >>> to say why we liked White Wings flour
> >>> in ten words or less
> >>> would be an actual footy.
> >>> Plastic, we assumed.
> >>>
> >>> But Jack O'Sullivan the grocer
> >>> had calmly reached beneath the till
> >>> and presented us with
> >>> real leather and laces.
> >>> We each signed
> >>> and shot out the door.
> >>>
> >>> Turning right on the home stretch
> >>> down Wallis Avenue,
> >>> Dan positioned himself to be
> >>> the receiver outside our house
> >>> so he could be the first
> >>> to rush in and show Mum.
> >>>
> >>> bw
> >>>
> >>
> >
> >
> > --
> > Andrew
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>
> Douglas Barbour
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> Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations & Continuations
> 2 (UofAPress).
> Recording Dates (Rubicon Press).
> Listen. If (UofAPress):
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>
> I go down to the Twilight Arcade
> and watch the Martian invaders,
> already appalled by our language,
> pointing at what they want.
>
> Bill Manhire
>
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