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Ah Pete, I don't think anyone is checking the Wales thread anymore ... sad.

Times moves on. Hope your birthday was brilliant anyways.


See ya on Facebook

tinderella wrote:Ah Pete, I don't think anyone is checking the Wales thread anymore ... sad.

Times moves on. Hope your birthday was brilliant anyways.


See ya on Facebook

I will soldier on alone then if that is the case !
Just arrived back from Ian's wedding so was unable to check the thread . Will post photos on facebook later . Happy belated birthday Pete ! Hope you had a great day !
Phil
PS The present is delayed Poundland is shut on bank holidays !

tinderella wrote:Ah Pete, I don't think anyone is checking the Wales thread anymore ... sad.

Happy belated birthday Pete! Hope you had a fabulous day celebrating!!!

Best regards,
Mary (still following this entertaining thread)

tinderella wrote:Ah Pete, I don't think anyone is checking the Wales thread anymore ... sad.

Times moves on. Hope your birthday was brilliant anyways.


See ya on Facebook

Hi Tinderella

Been on so called facebook
Didn't like it there
I read some "funny" comments
I didn't think were fair
So now I am back here on my own
Climbing this mountainside
At least until a thousand folk
Have took interest and replied
Then I will be happy
To see this threads demise
So we can finish on a high
With a thousand nice replies
And if no one will help me
I will do it all alone
Because I really love this thread
It has been my home from home


YL

Hi Yorkshire Lad
Nice poem ! You can count on me I promise you wont be on your own for the next twenty one posts . I will be with you all the way but then you already know that don't you !
Cheers Phil

Jean where have you put my pills !

poem #1 (Early September 2009)

each day
I think
of the time
we found
ourselves
in congregation
and left our mark
on the landscape
and left a mark
on me
and in me
for each day
I remember
I remember
everything
even the gaps
and the cracks
and the togetherness
and the comforting solitude
we all shared
and I see the smiles
I see them each day
and I hear the laughter
echoing
echoing
our appreciation
of what we had
and what we were
and each day
that I think of each day
it becomes more real
for it was real
and it is real
and I’ll not forget
those days
for they are now
part of my landscape
and yours
and sharing this
with you all
enhances my days
each day

Poem #2 (Late September 2009)

Each week
I remember
the time we spent
together
as one
with one another
on the mountain
they call
that name I forget
and with one another
in the evening
in that pub
with Evan singing Orbison
Each week
I remember
the village in the rain
and the meal
we shared
and the lobster
and the lady playing
the harpischord
as we ate
together
as one
Each week
I remember.


Poem #3 (October 2009)

Each month
I remember
something
that happened
in September.
Sometimes
I remember
it
like it was yesterday
or was it
the day before?
I remember
some cloudy mist
all cloudy
and misty
and people dancing
on summits
I think
and I remember
a train
which has derailed
my memories.
I also see colours
and bright skies
and a number
9?
or 6?
Everything inverts
in my recollections
of the time
we spent
in each other's company
listening to a rendition
of Tom Jones.
It's not unusual
for me to try
to remember
something which happened
back in September.
I remember it well.
A hotel?
That jogged something
in the mind's recess.
Each month
I remember.
I try.



Poem #4 (September 2010)

Each year
I remember
the weekend
when we were as one
and over the year
when the memories started to fade
I shut my eyes
and we were there
and the memories are not clouded
they are real
just like me
and you and you and you
I'll never forget
each year
each September
especially when
the sun shines
and even more
when it doesn't.

Pete

p.s. poem to follow - September 2019 - titled 'Each Decade'

Hi Phil.

Good to see you keeping this thread alive. Without this thread, i kinda lost interest in the forum.

I have that inbetween summer/autumn blues at the moment, you know the kind..... The nights drawing in faster, the evenings cooler, the television still crap, and the long winter ahead.

Let's keep this thread open, even if it is just you me and Pete and we can keep in touch here. not really a facebook fan either but it is handy for messages from friends and family far away. I think email has died now, as I never get any at all, so at least with facebook, friends that are not on the forum can find me there

Hope you and Jean are well and Ian's wedding looked amazing

Love the poetry you gave me Phil and will read and reread them over the coming months

Love Tinders

Tinds, last weekend I was thinking about walking through that cloud with you, Ewan's Elvis and that entire last evening, oh and lots more besides. Pete I like it that you copied your sweet poems here. Phil, there are some great pics of you and Jean in the Krakow thread. Congrats to Ian btw. It seems this thread won't end until at least 2019, so you're OK. Anyhow, it wouldn't be bad to have a thread all to yourself...

tinderella wrote:I have that inbetween summer/autumn blues at the moment, you know the kind..... The nights drawing in faster, the evenings cooler, the television still crap, and the long winter ahead.

Love Tinders

Thats what I like about you Bernadine . Your positive oulook on life !

Thanks to the three of you for responding . I am cooking on gas now my favorite thread is up and running again .

YL

honouring great men……….

....on this year’s annual pilgrimage to stratford-upon-avon the town's railway station was closed because the usual ‘engineering on the line’ so we had to take a replacement bus service to a station a couple of stops up the line to connect with our birmingham train……

….now stratford-upon-avon like many other towns across the world always have a few buildings or streets named after their local heroes so imagine my surprise and pleasure when looking out from the top deck of the aforementioned replacement bus to see that the people of stratford-upon-avon have already honoured one of our walking friends from the american midwest……….

---who else around here can claim to have a road named in their honour?
........anybody wanting to visit here is a map...just take the birmingham road out of stratford and after about a mile you should spot it.......

And in the home of the great Shakespeare as well . Such an honour :"Whats in a name ? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet " ( Romeo and Juliet )

...our friend joe is in good company as he's not the only mid-westerner to to honoured by the local highway committee.......

liverpoolken wrote:...our friend joe is in good company as he's not the only mid-westerner to to honoured by the local highway committee.......

there ought to be a Leonard Cohen St or avenue or road

Hi all,
First off, YL glad to hear that you are well and out and about again!

Pete, thanks for posting the poems here-they are very touching.

Ken,
With my last name, I've always worried that there would be a street accidentally named for me, but I feared that it would be in one of those "goddamn housing tracts" that Tom Russell sings about where the penchant is for the developers to name streets after their children. To know that it is in Stratford-Upon-Avon is quite a relief and certainly an undeserved honor-although you know how I do love the Bard! Anyway, I would gladly relinquish it to Leonard if asked.

Joe

philip...first up i would like to thank you for quoting word perfect the words of will shakespeare....i think this must be a first on this forum...... however i'm not sure if you can up with a quote that would cover the rather pitiful part of london which unfortunately bears your name......ta ken