Dear Wings, Several years ago, one of your relatives sent me a recipe for pasties. My niece and I have made hundreds of them since then. We make the...
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wings081
Jul 7, 2010 10:20 am
Dear Suzi Did the person who told you about Cornish Pasties tell you the old tale of why the crimped edge was thrown away by miners. Apparently miners hands...
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Susan Donahue
suzianne411
Jul 8, 2010 4:14 pm
Dear Wings, I was told about discarding the crust at the end and was also told that the wives pressed their men's initials in the crust at the good end so they...
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Susan Donahue
suzianne411
Jul 13, 2010 2:23 am
... From: Rex Walton <rexwalton@...> Subject: Wrex's Writerly News beginning July 12th - To: Undisclosed-Recipient@... Date: Monday, July 12,...
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Bernard d
rede2rollbaby
Jul 13, 2010 4:48 am
FINALITY. Life's twilight resolutely approaches, a sinister shrouding, that encroaches, upon the body's resilience day by day. Life's bountiful days, have...
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wings081
Jul 13, 2010 9:07 pm
Hi Bernie Such a display of saturnity needs to be nipped in the bud pronto. For the past eight years you have regaled us with your erudite compositions and I...
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Susan Donahue
suzianne411
Jul 17, 2010 9:44 pm
... From: Susan Donahue <suzianne411@...> Subject: Fw: Wrex's Writerly News beginning July 17th - WRITERS WORKSHOP reads at Cultiva Cafe' on the 19th ;...
Hi David, Kipling reborn.I just love the metre of those dramatic monologues. Rolls off the tongue like the lilt of Irish laughter. Takes me back to a February...
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Terry Girard
andernutrition
Jul 18, 2010 9:27 pm
Very melodius! I want to be there! ... From: David Roth <davidjroth2002@...> Subject: [ticket2write] Green Eyed Barmaid - A Melody in the Dublin Style ...
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Susan Donahue
suzianne411
Jul 19, 2010 11:38 am
Performance, Open Mic, Discursive Community Everything Matters – Poetry and Music Celebrating Relationships to Land, Family and Friends more info here:...
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Bernard d
rede2rollbaby
Jul 21, 2010 11:07 am
Sol, the carnie spruiker. A carnival spruiker was Sol, and a popular one too, he'd gather a crowd, where once stood only the few. Then some spiel he'd sprout...
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David Roth
davidjroth2002
Jul 21, 2010 10:27 pm
Thank you, Sir Wings. And thanks for sharing a small bit of your life with us. When does the book (My Life in Kenya)? Come out? ;o) d. ... From:...
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wings081
Jul 22, 2010 9:56 am
Hi David Re."When does the book, "My life in Kenya" come out" You've lost me there David. I have never set foot in Kenya. Possibly you are confusing me with...
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David Roth
davidjroth2002
Jul 22, 2010 4:00 pm
Most Excellent Sir Wings, I was making a failed humorous reference to 'Lionel Hardcsastle's" book, giving credit to all your great stories and memories WHICH...
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wings081
Jul 22, 2010 4:43 pm
Hi Bernie "Spruiker"; ??? OK I'll look it up. For members lost in Bernie's maze of Oz terminology it refers to: One who promotes his own cause. One who toots...
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Bernard d
rede2rollbaby
Jul 23, 2010 2:31 am
G'day Wings, old Mate, you've got the 'barker' to go with your normal bite...I reckon you'd sell ice blocks to an eskimo. I don't know about circiut carnivals ...
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wings081
Jul 23, 2010 9:27 pm
Hi Berni Re Kwacka & his cure-all elixir. Very topical with me at the moment. I was sent some literature regarding a Nobel prize-winning discovery, which...
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Pauline Hamilton
phamilton66nz
Jul 25, 2010 2:35 pm
Visitor I no longer yearn to see his face, to hear his bass note laugh to have him shoulder my burdens to share a joke a poem a moment I no longer yearn to...
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wings081
Jul 25, 2010 2:55 pm
Dear Pauline My heartfelt sympathies. I lost my wife nearly three decades ago and still feel her close. She was more than a mate; a mother to my children; she...
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Susan Donahue
suzianne411
Jul 26, 2010 2:12 pm
Samuel Johnson, the sharp-witted British essayist, wrote the first English language dictionary; his definitions still form the backbone of current...
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Pauline Hamilton
phamilton66nz
Jul 27, 2010 12:01 am
Hi Wings, Thank you for your reply... There are days, you know, when all we can do is be grateful that when we meet soulmates we have a chance to recognize...
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dave_n2chi
Jul 27, 2010 6:18 am
Pauline, that's the nicest piece I've read in a long time. Thank you very much. Dave...
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Bernard d
rede2rollbaby
Jul 27, 2010 9:27 am
ALONE. How barren, grows that solitary life, one awash with sorrow, running rife. Fate's passage looms, one to bemoan, a dreary pathway now trekked alone. How...
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Bernard d
rede2rollbaby
Jul 27, 2010 9:32 am
Robbo on : Ashes To Ashes… "Opulence and practicality, are never closely related.," Robbo, in a reflective mood, the obvious, now stated. "You'll see not...
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Pauline Hamilton
phamilton66nz
Jul 27, 2010 9:14 pm
And that is the nicest compliment I've had in a long time.. Thanks Pauline Hamilton Dance where you can, love where you dare, Joy is not finished with you...
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wings081
Jul 27, 2010 10:20 pm
Hi Bernie Re; Ashes to Ashes Let me recount a true story concerning a crematorium: It was while I was still young enough to be included in the school choir,...
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Susan Donahue
suzianne411
Jul 28, 2010 2:57 pm
Regarding today's Quote of the Day: "Victory is won not in miles but in inches. Win a little now, hold your ground, and later, win a little more." ~ Louis...
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Susan Donahue
suzianne411
Jul 30, 2010 6:24 pm
... From: Rex Walton <rexwalton@...> Subject: Rex's Wreading Newz -- Tuesdays with Writers , and CORRECTION on Out Sider Arts Month - August 2010 -...
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Bernard d
rede2rollbaby
Aug 1, 2010 2:28 am
Libertine Leaving Life Limericks. Subscribing to that notion long held, `proper' Limericks should be impolite… One drunken mature, called Bernie, said...
