BS: WAV with Pics

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 17 Nov 22 - 09:31 AM

That is all a matter of personal taste I suppose. There is some really good music that I don't like and some crap that I do! As long as he doesn't do any hate speech, leave him be to post his poems.

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 17 Nov 22 - 09:14 AM

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: GUEST,Modette - PM
86.40.45.39
Date: 17 Nov 22 - 08:13 AM

Why has this crap crept back in?

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Very simply, Modette, WAV is allowed to post his poetry but not to enter into BS discussions. The best way of keeping it that way is to not goad him into any arguments. If you don't like his poetry just don't read it. I do not particulary like or understand it either but will defend his right to publish it!

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WAV is pushing boundaries - the next time, the IP is also blocked. There will be no mention of "English values" vs the United Nations in any other thread. Not obits, not anywhere. Your Aryan view of the world is not welcome here, David. Understood? ---mudelf

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: GUEST,WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 16 Nov 22 - 04:35 PM

With a new pic of an old print added, my poem "Above Everest"
/Chomolungma (Tibetan)/Sagarmatha (Nepalese) - which Apa Sherpa, from Nepal, has climbed 21 times!

Subject: RE: WAV with Pics
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 28 Oct 22 - 02:05 PM

Ouch.

T. Cholmondeley Frink in Lewis's Babbitt was modeled after Edgar Guest, "The Poet of the People." Same kind of stuff.

Subject: RE: WAV with Pics
From: GUEST,Modette
Date: 28 Oct 22 - 01:45 PM

I'll take note, mudelf. However, as the dogger has clearly insulted me ('if you can count'), I must point out that said dogger's oeuvre is just a mere flippancy when compared to the rhymes of Patience Strong.

Here's one of her greatest works, 'The Company of Nations'.

'A group of islands, loved and lovely, first a colony -
    Strung out like a necklace flung across the southern seas -
Now a beautiful Dominion, God's own gift to us -
    A jewel in the Israel crown, a pearl most marvellous
Rich in churches, farms and cities; pastures, cattle, sheep -
    where this people British-bred their ancient laws may keep.


First of Britain's family to come to Britain's aid -
    In two great world-wide wars - the memory shall not fade -
From the Mother heart that beats in London's sanctuary.
    Across the world we hail New Zealand - one of our company.'

Subject: RE: WAV with Pics
From: GUEST,WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 28 Oct 22 - 01:33 PM

For the benefit of anyone else on here, Sandman's quote is from a "A Good Seaside Day" - linked just above, and with pics (hopefully) helping show what I describe, but with none of your "double entendre" I'm afraid.

Subject: RE: WAV with Pics
From: The Sandman
Date: 28 Oct 22 - 01:23 PM

Farewell, Angelina
The bells of the crown
Are being stolen by bandits
I must follow the sound
The triangle tingles
And the trumpets play slow
But farewell, Angelina
The sky is on fire
And I must go
There's no need for anger
There's no need for blame
There's nothing to prove
Everything's still the same
Just a table standing empty
By the edge of the sea
Means farewell, Angelina
The sky is trembling
And I must leave
The jack and queen
Have forsaked the courtyard
52 gypsies
Now file past the guards
In the space where the deuce
And the ace once ran wild
Farewell, Angelina
The sky is falling
I'll see you in a while
See the cross-eyed pirates sitting
Perched in the sun
Shooting tin cans
With a sawed-off shotgun
And the neighbors, they clap
And they cheer with each blast
But farewell, Angelina
The sky's changing color
And I must leave fast
King Kong, little elves
On the rooftop they dance
Valentino-type tangos
While the make-up man's hands
Shut the eyes of the dead
Not to embarrass anyone
But farewell, Angelina
The sky is embarrassed
And I must be gone
The machine guns are roaring
And the puppets heave rocks
And fiends nail time bombs
To the hands of the clocks
Call me any name you like
I will never deny it
But farewell, Angelina
The sky is erupting
I must go where it's quiet
Source: Musixmatch
Songwriters: Bob Dylan

Subject: RE: WAV with Pics
From: The Sandman
Date: 28 Oct 22 - 01:20 PM

i think this poem shows an influence of Bob Dylan, remiscent of farewll angelina

Subject: RE: WAV with Pics
From: The Sandman
Date: 28 Oct 22 - 01:18 PM

Via a maritime Mount,
    Fleetwood with its channel out;
would this be a double entendre poem

Subject: RE: WAV with Pics
From: GUEST,Modette
Date: 28 Oct 22 - 11:28 AM

That's doggerel, not poetry, and not even very good doggerel at best.

What does this thread have to do with music?

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WAV is no longer welcome to post in the BS section so membership has been suspended. This one thread that contains said doggerel is the one he's allowed to continue to add to - and we will assume that you now know better and will never open it again. This post and note will be removed after a period of time when people can register your complaint and understand the reason. ---mudelf

Subject: RE: WAV with Pics
From: GUEST,WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 27 Oct 22 - 02:29 PM

Could be anyone but is (newly blocked) me - who has just added a couple of light-hearted pics to my poem "Repatriating - Australia to England"

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 22 Oct 22 - 12:38 PM

I think it was more to do with certain substances that were readily available in AK :-D

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 22 Oct 22 - 12:02 PM

...maybe he was built for comfort and the (lonely) pie had started it by asking: "who's eaten all the pies?"..?

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 22 Oct 22 - 11:42 AM

I used to love going into Manchester from about 14 to 20-ish. New Brown Street was the Carnaby Street of Manchester but I used to like the Army surplus in Tib Street better :-) The underground market was another place to hang out - you could get high just from standing around breathing in the pot smoke! Aunties kitchen was one of my favourite rock venues where I once saw a man have a fight with a meat pie :-D Sadly, in 1975, the Arndale centre ripped the heart out of Manchester and it was never quite the same after the monstrosity was built :-(

Mrs G and I used to go in 'early doors' on a Saturday quite often in the 00s though, when the kids were capable of looking after themselves, and we used to quite enjoy that. Very rarely went in the Arndale but used to have a good mooch around St Anne's Square and Densgate or round the Cathedral and Victoria before eating in one of many hostelries and heading back home about 7-ish. Before the nutters came out to play :-D

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 22 Oct 22 - 11:21 AM

My nephew and I also made a day-trip by train to Blackpool, where I photographed the Illuminations for a second time (they are on until 2/1/2023); hence a few more pics added to my poem "A Good Seaside Day".

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 22 Oct 22 - 07:30 AM

I'm sure it does - and almost the line of a song "parsley, (sage), rosemary, and thyme" (Scarborough Fair)!

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 22 Oct 22 - 06:44 AM

Rosemary on the lamb, thyme, parsley and bay leaf in the stock for gravy, mint for the mint sauce. All picked in the last fifteen minutes. It smells nice round here.

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 22 Oct 22 - 06:05 AM

Any herbs from your garden with that Steve...rosemary..?

Possible you bumped into my late uncle, Les Garside, at some stage - before retiring there, he was a paramedic both during and after the war and, quite a character, liked to take charge of just about every social situation! A lot seemed to know him when we were walking around Bude and Kilk.

One thing I forgot re Manchester, whereas Scousers may (justifiably) boast of 2 great cathedrals, in Manchester we have two pretty good libraries: Central (based on the Pantheon's design, I think) and John Rylands (both among the above pics).

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 22 Oct 22 - 05:19 AM

Kilkhampton ("Kilk" round here) is ten minutes up the road from us. We had relatives there too, now long gone. We used to play music in the New Inn in years gone by. Unfortunately, Kilk has the worst chippie it's been my misfortune to encounter. Tsk. However, the little butcher's shop in the middle of the village is wonderful. I'm cooking a lovely shoulder of his lamb, from his own farm, this very afternoon.

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 22 Oct 22 - 04:29 AM

Thanks Steve.

Most of my family and relatives left Manchester, including, as I may have mentioned before, a late uncle and auntie who, like you, moved to Cornwall - Kilkhampton, where I enjoyed a couple of visits.

My nephew, visiting from Australia, liked Manchester as he is very keen on football.

Unlike London, there are no great parks and gardens in the centre, but some nice ones further out in the suburbs, and the canals around the Deansgate area of the city are (nowadays) quite scenic, I think.

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 21 Oct 22 - 07:02 PM

Nice bunch of pics of Manchester there. Having lived as a kid and teenybopper just eight miles north of Manchester in the fifties and sixties, I must say that Manchester never endeared itself to me. In those days there were hundreds of uncleared WWII bomb sites, and the whole place seemed impersonal and, in a few areas, just a tad intimidating. I had relatives in Whitefield and Prestwich, and my mum was a Salford lass, and Heaton Park was a frequent resort, but we rarely penetrated further south than that. Manchester was a necessary place to pass through, Piccadilly across the city to Victoria station, then home to Radcliffe on the tram or whatever they call it these days. Generally, we gravitated towards Bolton, where I went to school, or Bury. I understand that Manchester has regained some of its vibrancy in recent years (and the club scene was always great anyway).

Just musing!

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 21 Oct 22 - 05:31 PM

...and to my hometown poem "Manchester - A Gist"

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 30 Sep 22 - 05:14 PM

My nephew having just visited me in Manchester for a week, I've added some pics to my song "The Mersey At Didsbury"

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 18 Sep 22 - 03:47 AM

With great helicopter shots, I just saw on T.V. the end of the Men's Time Trial of the World Cycling Championships from Wollongong, N.S.W., and remembered a photo of me nearby at the Southern Gateway Centre, Bulli Tops - now added to my poem on "A Multicultural World of Carrying"

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 17 Sep 22 - 05:12 PM

Ahhhh. That's what ir was!

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: Jon Freeman
Date: 17 Sep 22 - 01:50 PM

I'd guess that's right WAV. They've just temporarily improved the appearence from on side.

I lived in the area 1978-2001 although nearly all of that was about 3 miles out of Llandudno. We went into town the night of the fire and got stopped by the police. They let us through as we were bound for the Llandudno Folk Club but I think they were turning "sightseers" round.

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 17 Sep 22 - 01:14 PM

That (local) article Jon links to saying "The site has lain empty and overgrown ever since, while its future has become a controversial topic of discussion" was almost exactly a year ago (25/9/2021)..? At least some of the area shown in flames on the attached photo is definitely now (re)developed as I described above...but, behind that, on the Grand's front-entrance side as Dave describes, there may still be an area left undeveloped (which I probably framed my pics away from)..?

I've noticed quite a lot of development & refurbishment type work has taken place in England during the quiet Covid period.

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: Jon Freeman
Date: 17 Sep 22 - 07:45 AM

That was the Pier Pavilion. It burnt down in 1994.

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 17 Sep 22 - 07:31 AM

There is development at the side of the Grand - between it and the pier entrance. I think there was an hotel there before the Grand. It may have been slightly to the right of it as you are facing the front of the Grand. It is quite a deep excavation and looks like it may have been very substantial.

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 14 Sep 22 - 05:13 AM

I think, Jon, that area now has the above-mentioned chippy, touristy shops, games hall, and a ferris wheel - as lit-up in the pic attached to the poem linked above (in reasonable nick, I'd say).

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: Jon Freeman
Date: 14 Sep 22 - 03:27 AM

Near the Grand: What's the site of the old Pier Pavilion like these days? Is it still a mess?

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 13 Sep 22 - 12:16 PM

...by the way, a couple of years ago I had prolonged metatarsal pain in my left club-foot and would not have tried such a walk/hike...so things don't always get worse with age!!

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 13 Sep 22 - 11:59 AM

Agree Steve - only attached one to the poem but took several pics of the flora on my evening walk up the Great Orme; haven't been up the Little Orme but imagine it would be similarly enjoyable..?

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 13 Sep 22 - 11:42 AM

I haven't been for many a long year, but it's a quaint old place, and Great Orme is a wonderland for field botanists. Picturesque too.

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 13 Sep 22 - 11:05 AM

Agree, Dave. I was there on 30 & 31 August. I only had their breakfast on the second morning as I was planning on a swim on the first - but, alas, was put off by the tides. And I was in the hall with the big screen both nights, sipping on a G & T.

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 13 Sep 22 - 10:54 AM

...you could follow that goat(ee) for a while, Donuel, and wait for a cleansing downpour..?

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 13 Sep 22 - 10:53 AM

Funnily enough we spent the night in the Grand Hotel, Llandudno, just over a week ago. Not been for years and forgotten how pretty it can be.

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: Donuel
Date: 12 Sep 22 - 11:44 PM

Like a diamond stuck in a goat's ass I hesitate to explore it.

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 07 Sep 22 - 03:49 PM

"Colourful Llandudno" with pics - including one of the goats now back on the Great Orme, having gone into a quieter town-centre during Covid, as you may have seen on the news.

Whether or not Punch and Judy is a tad too colourful, some of the Llandudno seagulls certainly are! Thinking I wouldn't take a pic until the end of the pier, I was eating some chips on the hoof when one of them knocked off quite a few - including most of the sauce. If accused of chipping rather than their traditional fishing, they certainly seem to do pretty well on it - big healthy looking (as well as cocky) things.

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 04 Sep 22 - 06:31 PM

...more editing, after my couple of days away, and I've just added some "hills meeting sea" pics to my poem on "North Wales" - including Puffin Island, & Llandudno's Great Orme plus (if you look carefully) Little Orme, taken from the train between Bangor & Conwy.

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 04 Sep 22 - 08:52 AM

No it doesn't!...try again: "Holyhead and Surrounds"

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 04 Sep 22 - 08:47 AM

...the link works fine but I forget to input the title "Holyhead and Surrounds", sorry.

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 04 Sep 22 - 08:45 AM

In North Wales, https://walkaboutsverse.blogspot.com/2010/08/walkaboutsverse-165-of-230.html - including photos, from a train window, of Snowdonia & the Menai Straits/"Swellies" plus, from near the station, Conwy Castle.

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 18 Aug 22 - 05:54 AM

...maybe he was born with a silver..?!

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 17 Aug 22 - 07:01 PM

You do not hear the spoons. You endure the spoons. There was this spoons bloke who turned up to the Tree Inn session once a year with the Sealed Knot (for the reenactment of the Battle of Stamford Hill). He was the most ignorantist-ever bastard to turn up to any session (except for any bodhran owner). He was the only person in 20 years who I had to tell to bugger off out of it in no uncertain terms. Utter twattery doesn't even begin to describe his attitude...

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 17 Aug 22 - 05:47 PM

Hugh: "Yes, last Sunday - just before taking a pew".

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 17 Aug 22 - 05:44 PM

Of course you could have fun with word games

Have you seen the yew, Hugh?

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 17 Aug 22 - 05:32 PM

I've heard the spoons played at a folk club/festival session but not yet the bones...

Donuel - clicked your link to have a look but got an error message.

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 17 Aug 22 - 04:28 PM

I have a lovely pair of bones made of yew. Unfortunately, I could never master them and you would miraculously close up all the seating spaces if I turned up to your session with them...

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: Donuel
Date: 17 Aug 22 - 02:10 PM

The autumn bright yellow leaves
are great. They grow well around schools supposedly because of all the bad boys and girls who mysteriously disappeared.