BS: WAV with Pics

Subject: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 13 May 19 - 04:43 PM

This is not a music thread, but it is one where David Franks parks his "poetry." Mr. Franks isn't a regular member now, but this thread is moved to the top of the page so he can continue to post links to his blog.

The first time we tried to move this to the top other members started sniping and turned it into an overtly political thread, and that is unacceptable. Past discussions have been left mostly in place, but new remarks from guests or members that don't have to do strictly with the content linked to will be deleted. This is a compromise that is acceptable to moderators as long as it doesn't become a battleground. ---mudelf

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Hi all:

In my free time the last few years, my hobby has been going back to places I visited in Walkabouts: Travels and Conclusions in Verse/WalkaboutsVerse/WAV with a bridge camera.

Here is one example from a recent visit to Rome - quite timely as the Giro cycling and the Italian Open Tennis are currently on:

"A Beautiful Stage"

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 13 May 19 - 11:33 PM

...stayed in Ostia and had about one day on the coast, one day walking about the city, and one day watching tennis at the wonderful Foro Italico.

There are so many beautiful sites in Rome but, of course, people know it and there are big crowds and queues at most of them.

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: Donuel
Date: 14 May 19 - 07:08 PM

Even if no one else is able to say it, Well Done.
Was it easy?

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 15 May 19 - 02:48 PM

Thanks, Donuel:

It was easier last time in 1988, in my early 20s!

But I remembered that - unlike spacious Paris where the good underground is really needed - Rome is a walkabout city and this visit confirmed that.

I took the metro to the Vatican then walked a scenic route - in the order of the photos - to the Colosseum, buying an umbrella and wiping my camera lens a lot in the changeable weather that day.

The other 2 days, I took it easier - on the coast and at the tennis.

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: fat B****rd
Date: 15 May 19 - 03:30 PM

Excellent selection, WAV. Reminds me of a wonderful week my late wife and I spent in Italy. Thank you.

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 15 May 19 - 03:38 PM

Where did you visit, FB?

So many beautiful places in Italy, of course - and I'm being reminded of this now by the helicopter cameras covering the Giro cycling.

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: fat B****rd
Date: 15 May 19 - 06:22 PM

Rome, Florence, Assisi and Perugia.

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 15 May 19 - 06:32 PM

Only been to the first 2, and know the other 2 from TV and Saint Francis, of course.

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 16 May 19 - 02:32 PM

A local one this time on a revisit, 19 years on, with camera, to Blackpool and Fleetwood - "A Good Seaside Day" .

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 17 May 19 - 03:50 PM

Recently on our local NW England news, Blackpool Tower is now 125 years old.

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From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 18 May 19 - 05:58 PM

"Liverpool"

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From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 24 May 19 - 02:54 PM

A surfie poem with pics on, in Sydney, "Cronulla"

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From: Dave Hanson
Date: 24 May 19 - 02:56 PM

Here we go again, WankaboutsVerse binge posting.

Dave H

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From: Donuel
Date: 24 May 19 - 05:06 PM

?

Over here we pay people to go over and photo the UK

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 25 May 19 - 03:45 AM

I think you hit the wrong button, Dave, but keeping calm and carrying on with upper lip stiff...

Not to compare myself in any other way, Gandhi and Mandela probably disliked their status quo at least as much as I do - one fought with non-violent non-cooperation, the latter resorted to terrorism.

Having been born in Saint Mary's Hospital, Manchester, the day Alf Ramsey's English team won the FIFA World Cup, and been highly trained in Australia and (too a lesser extent) England, I keep promoting WalkaboutsVerse

(The lazy answer would have been - if you don't like it, go to hell.)

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 25 May 19 - 09:20 PM

thanks for the pics, the other beaches are a tad different to Australia's beaches!

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 26 May 19 - 04:32 AM

Agreed, Sandra - although not a surfie, I have bumped into a few of our world's most famous beaches and those around Sydney are hard to beat.

And, when I visit my elderly parents there every year, what I appreciate most is the beautiful rock pools (as in the above Cronulla poem), where I can enjoy the fresh sea water, without too much swell, such that I can keep my glasses on.

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 27 May 19 - 09:31 AM

"My Diet"

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 28 May 19 - 03:39 AM

A bit like this thread, for the most part! "One-Pot Cooking"

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 28 May 19 - 05:03 PM

For anyone who would like a look at some of the English artists at London’s National Gallery, my intro poem to WalkaboutsVerse, "Pictures"

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 29 May 19 - 04:37 PM

My hometown poem "Manchester - A Gist"

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: The Sandman
Date: 29 May 19 - 05:28 PM

wav are you familiar with the poetry of Ian Bailey, he is a neghbour of mine and is also from manchester

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 29 May 19 - 06:16 PM

No - I had to do a web-search, Sandman; is it the chap in the news on trial at the moment?

Either way, I hope to get back into both the folk and poetry club and festival scenes again but, as I say, I've been spending a fair bit of my spare time lately revisiting places with my camera.

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: The Sandman
Date: 30 May 19 - 12:55 PM

The Irish dpp said there was insufficent evidence to prosecute, in france you are guilty until you can prove your innocence, he is being tried in his absence in france, it is [as i understand] a civil case which requires less evidence.

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 31 May 19 - 01:51 PM

He lives in Manchester now, Sandman? May have been on the local news which I have missed lately due to watching Roland Garros and the Giro, after work.

Heading south, my "Impressions of London in 1997" (with photos taken 3 or 4 years ago)

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: The Sandman
Date: 31 May 19 - 06:17 PM

no he lives near schull county cork ireland, but frommanchester originally

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 02 Jun 19 - 05:31 PM

"Picturing Sydney"

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 04 Jun 19 - 04:30 PM

An Australian PM has (& I have) but still no UK leader has apologised for abusing Aboriginal "Land Rights"

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 07 Jun 19 - 02:30 PM

Re Brexit and #DDay75, "Remember Them?"

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From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 08 Jun 19 - 01:59 PM

Including a pic of Eric, "From Morecambe"

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 13 Jun 19 - 03:30 PM

With an address, of sorts, not to a haggis but the coconut, my poem Through South-East Asia" .

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 15 Jun 19 - 07:43 AM

In 1988, I hitch-hiked from "Land's End to John O' Groats"

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 16 Jun 19 - 05:26 PM

With photos of Barcelona (including one of the bullring that was) taken during a long-weekend visit last year, my poem on "Toreo".

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 19 Jun 19 - 02:47 PM

The introductory poem to the Walkabout Lancashire section of my collection, "More Pictures" - with photos taken in 2017 of Manchester Art Gallery.

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 22 Jun 19 - 01:03 PM

My song, in C Major, "We Go Together" with pics of pigeons and "bees".

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 25 Jun 19 - 02:51 PM

With the qualifying on this week, there is not long to go now, so my poem, with lots of pics from a 2014 visit, "Musing on Wimbledon"

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 29 Jun 19 - 02:10 PM

...now that "Eastbourne" is over for another year.

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From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 04 Jul 19 - 04:57 PM

"Proud Preston"

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From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 08 Jul 19 - 06:28 PM

On the coast, near Newcastle Upon Tyne, "Cullercoats"

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 10 Jul 19 - 04:56 PM

Just got home from a visit by train to Buxton, Derbyshire, straight from work, and added a well-dressing photo to my poem on "The Many Elements of Buxton"

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 17 Jul 19 - 05:12 PM

"A Fern In Full Flight"

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From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 03 Aug 19 - 05:56 PM

"Joys of Life"

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From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 17 Aug 19 - 04:30 PM

In North East England, with Roman ruins, Wallsend

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 25 Aug 19 - 04:24 PM

Nice day here in England yesterday, and, with my camera, I made a day-trip into Lancashire to 3 places I had previously visited (about 20 years ago) with my pen; and I've just finished adding pics to my poem on "Clitheroe Castle's Views"

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 26 Aug 19 - 01:55 PM

From the same above day-trip, just finished editing and adding photos to my poem on "Blackburn Cathedral"

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 28 Aug 19 - 05:41 PM

My poem, with photos of her memorial in Hyde Park, on the death of Diana in 1997 - "A Loss For Humanity"

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 31 Aug 19 - 12:32 PM

"Whalley Abbey...What Tales?"

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 23 Sep 19 - 05:27 PM

Most of my poems are in trad English forms, but I did try an Italian sonnet and a few Haikus, including this one on "Rivington", Lancashire - now with pics attached, after a recent revisit.

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 19 Oct 19 - 04:07 AM

"One Rugby?"

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 15 Dec 19 - 08:08 AM

I just made a visit "To Scotland, Again" - this time with my camera (rather than my pen), and by train rather than the coach journey of the poem.

You can also see in the pics evidence of how much rain there has been in these parts the last few weeks.