Call me slow, but I've only just realised the significance of the 'cowbells' beside everyone's user name.
Doh!

Hi, Slow. (nah, call me old fashioned, but I prefer 'Dee'

Did you not think at all that the, er, 'cowbell' (gimme strength) resembled, in an icony-graphicy way admittedly, a little person...?
Hm? Not even the tiniest glimmer?


Read any good epitaphs recently?



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How'd that yeller feller get in here? What hapened to my close bracket? I'm fussy about brackets, that will bother me all night, now..

Apparently there's one in a graveyard somewhere round here inscribed 'She was a good worker'
Only in Yorkshire!

Dee
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Here's a spare bracket.

At my friend's 18th Birthday Party, her Dad said in his speech, "Aye, well, Catherine is 18. Well, she's bin no bother, really"
As you say, only in Yorkshire...oh, I miss it soooo bad

Thanks for the bracket, but I'm still upset.

Done any shhh...[i[Christmas shopping, Dee?
Lawks, I haven't even given it a thought. Maybe i'll write everyone a poem..

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Bugger and blast, now me italics have gone wrong and I've a surfit of brackets. Think I need a lie down

Where in Yorkshire Dee?

I'm from Hull, moved to London though cos it's warmer and there's more to do.

I was born just outside Hull, place called Withernsea, I believe. Lived in Keyingham til I was 5
And before any clever cloggs sez, it IS in Yorkhire, in T'east Ridin'. Bugger Humberside

I was born just outside Hull, place called Withernsea, I believe. Lived in Keyingham til I was 5
And before any clever cloggs sez, it IS in Yorkhire, in T'east Ridin'. Bugger Humberside

OOh dear, here I go with me double posts again, just too quick on that button! sorry folks

Geoff, I've been living in Halifax for the past 14 or so years although I'm Northumbrian by birth.
Still hankering to get back to the west coast. I lived in Heysham for a few years and have to go back to the bay area at least every 3 or 4 months for a fix. I seem to have a need for the sea. Perhaps it's the Viking in me!

Dee.

I think the Northumbrian coast is fantastic, Dee. Hopefully get to sample some of it over Xmas when I visit the parents in Newcastle. I'sh'll alus be a Yorkhire lass, but would go and live in Northumberland any day - cities of character, beautiful landscapes, awesome coasts, magical people - got everything really...so why the bloody hell am I sitting writing this in London....

Oh yes!
That coast is outstanding, isn't it? I haven't been there for far too long. I was in Newcastle last August for the first time in years and I'd forgotten what a beautiful city it is. Grey Street is dreamy. What a small world that your parents live there now. My mother lives in Hexham. Another wonderful place. I really must use it as the setting for a book.
Cheers
Dee.

Well, get scribbling, girl!
I have to say that being 'up there' makes me feel all poetic, not just the surroundings but also the history and guts of the place, I feel it as the home of my "ancestors" (all family from there), and sense the struggles and roots of the people in the land - quite literally, most of the time. I was surprised at how moved i was by the Angel - for me he's a symbol and a protector, I love him
Great figure for a great place.

hi, Dee, what's happening?

Not a lot, TC, but thanks for asking.
I went to our writers' circle xmas party last night, came second in the short story competition and got hit over the head by a large wall clock while having my photo taken by the local newspaper. Luckily the photographer had plenty of film and took another one without the pained expression - after everyone else had stopped laughing. Over-indulged a little on some Majorcan rum that someone won in the raffle. Woke up this morning feeling as if someone had painted the inside of my mouth with icing sugar.
Oh, yes... and the first publisher said no. BUMS. But, hey, I can live with rejection. Another one wants to read it but not until after xmas... so... where's that wine bottle?

Dee.

Sounds like the beginnings of a good plot there, Dee.
Sorry about the publisher. As one who hasn't been in this game more than a few months, those of you who are , and are about to be, published fill me with awe..'proper' writers! eek!

I've dried up this week, lots on my mind and i guess the poems are down the list for now. But hey, every experience may just be the next perfect verse, so let 'em come!

No developments in the epitaph steaks? it still bugs me at times, hope Richard can come up with something soon.
I've been reading lots of poems today - Maya Angelou, Simon Armitage, W.H.Auden, Sylvia Plath, (who I suddenly seem to understand after years of finding her very obscure), ted Hughes
All make me want to hang up my pen. I shall never have the depth and richness that they seem so effortlessly to bring.
Oh, I've made myself fed up now! Got another glass, Dee?