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[skyring]

I'm working on an article for the Bookcrossing site. I'm hoping that someone else will cover the convention itself, because I wanted to focus on some of the peripheral experiences. I'm still licking it into shape, but it's mostly in place in my Bookcrossing journal.

CoffeeBron started off a poetry competition. A funny poem on the theme of mistaken identity. I rejigged my Lionel Murphy anecdote:

Sunday Morning Coming Down and Letting Go
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After service this morning we lingered, we three,
The reverend Golightly, my dear wife and me.
The sun streamed in as we talked at the door;
The stained glass tinting the old wooden floor.
I relaxed for a moment, and then with a sigh
My breakfast beans slid quietly by.

I thought I’d escaped, and I would have had if
It hadn’t been *quite* so much of a whiff.
My wife stopped her chatter, sniffed and said “Pooh!”
Then gazed at me sternly. “Was that awful smell you?”
She gave me a Look and my heart gave a lurch,
What, admit before God that I’d farted in church?

“Me, dear? Of course not!” I said without thinking.
Holding my ground as they both stood there blinking.
A moment of hush and the reverend mused
“Oh it must have been me, then. Please do excuse!”


Pete, all his own work

Comments

Pete ~

[asterapallas.livejournal.com]

I *always* so enjoy your postings.
Your writing style is humourous, down-to-earth and highly detailed without ever being boring. :)
I always feel like I am *right there* with you ~ seeing your sights...

LOL
And today I could almost smell the breakfast beans sliding by.
*Evil Grin*

Thank-you for the joy you bring.
Your return home posting had brought tears to my eyes ~
I could feel your joy as you described being reunited with your kids...
and I felt for you as you were sitting down to your first cup of decent tea in 18 days. :D
American tea is truly awful...
;)
As an American who lives in England ~ I know that... now.
:P
I am stuck in the States with our deplorable tea stuffs for another little while...

Reading your journal is always a joy ~
you make me smile.
Thank-you.
*BIG HUGS*
Cari

p.s. You ever think of being a travel writer? You are very gifted...
:)

Re: Pete ~

[skyring.livejournal.com]

p.s. You ever think of being a travel writer? You are very gifted...

Only about twenty hours of each day...

Pete, blushing furiously

Re: Pete ~

[silvanime.livejournal.com]

She's right you know. You are quite gifted, Pete. I'm afraid I haven't managed to get over to your Bookcrossing journal yet, but your poem here is very well done. Good rhythm and rhyme- you're starting to put me to shame!

And did you know that the LJ spell checker comes up with Burglarizing as a possible substitute for Bookcrossing (which is obviously incorrect spelling!). Is there a message there somewhere?

*Nah* :P

Re: Pete ~

[skyring.livejournal.com]

Is there a message? As it happens, I just finished today reading a novel given to me by a Bookcrosser about a Bookseller who is also a Burglar.

Re: Pete ~

[ravensroads.livejournal.com]

Would you like me to bring you some English tea upon my return (i.e. when I go to England in September/October?)

I feel the same way about Pete's journals. It's one of the ones I keep up on whenever I'm away. A brief glance at the NZ book which my neighbour-friend AmberLee won convinced me there and then to order a copy, and it should be waiting for me back home. It was obviously well written.

I'm about three days from being reunited with my hubby...I am soooo looking forward to it. :-)