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Gatley - I used to drive past on the A34 between Wilmslow and town.
Still do, once a week, visiting. I live opoosite Sainsburys on Regent Road. D'you know where I mean? PS: Sorry if I don't reply till tomorrow!
posted by
Antonionioni
on November 9, 2006 at 4:52 PM
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Gatley
Gatley is where I live, but spend a lot of time in Salford. My wife works at The Lowry and is a Salford lass. I also have friends who crouch in Salford flats, where abouts are you?
posted by
Mavro
on November 9, 2006 at 12:57 PM
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Thanks for calling everyone!
Mavro, I was a student up till '87, so we just missed each other, altho of course we might have crossed paths unwittingly somewhere in Manchester. I also regularly used to visit Stockport, but don't do very often now. I've got a flat up in Salford, but very close to city centre. Where are you living now - is it Stockport?
posted by
Antonionioni
on November 8, 2006 at 11:25 AM
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Poly for me.
89-93 I was one of the mature types. English and Politics Joint Hons, no suprises there then.
posted by
Mavro
on November 8, 2006 at 4:59 AM
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Hi Tony !
Enjoyable lift in wit and humour, talent and great realization of life and its ups and downs, keep laughing it will go away when it realizes it can't upset you mate, great read as always. Mike
posted by
lionladroar
on November 8, 2006 at 3:50 AM
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Tony
This sonnet had a special quality of hilarity about it, that I so much enjoyed. Great!
posted by
Bhaskar.ing
on November 8, 2006 at 3:11 AM
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So many January birthdays. MC - will email.
posted by
Antonionioni
on November 8, 2006 at 1:39 AM
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my son was born on the second of January...1984
and died on 12 March 2003...
posted by
marieclaire66
on November 8, 2006 at 12:28 AM
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My son born on January 1st, and he so lovely
posted by
star4sky5
on November 7, 2006 at 7:15 PM
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So, you are Capricorn, like me. I am January 16th, as you told - born in
the middle of dark month of January.
posted by
shypettite
on November 7, 2006 at 7:02 PM
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Thank you Najwa
Your words are a delight.
posted by
Antonionioni
on November 7, 2006 at 2:38 PM
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I WAS BORN ON THE DAY THEY DISCOVERED AMERICA SHORES
THAT IS WHY I HAD LIVED BEHIND YOUR BROWN DOORS
BUT WHEN YOU HAD BEEN BORN THEY WASHED FROM HOLY RIVER
WHEN LIBRA VISTED THE FREE LAND NO ONE EVER WILL SUFFER
IT WAS ME WHO HAD BORN AT EAST AND LIVE IN YOUR WEST HEAT
BUT YOU HAS THE JOY OF LIFE FOR ONE THOUSAND YEARS
AND I AM THE SOUL WHO WILL WIPE ALL THE DARKEN TEARS
OUR LIVES ARE SO STRANGE SOME TIME WE ARE THE HUNTERS
BUT MOST OF THE TIME WE ARE THE DEERS
BUT ALL I KNOW THAT YOU ARE VERY DEAR......
........najwa
posted by
NAJWA
on November 7, 2006 at 1:06 PM
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Thanks to you all for your much appreciated comments
The hooks of love, are in your eyes, the hooks that something or other can't disguise... I forgot the words to the old Bacharach / David song, as you can see.
I studied at Manchester University, Mavro, not the Poly as it was in the eighties, or UMIST. How about you?
posted by
Antonionioni
on November 7, 2006 at 12:53 PM
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Still at it.
Good to see you've not fallen yet Tony. great discipline great work. You chose the right town, where did u study?
posted by
Mavro
on November 7, 2006 at 12:37 PM
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Tony
I'm learning a little about you very nice indeed
posted by
Kat02
on November 7, 2006 at 7:56 AM
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STAY WHERE YOU ARE LOL
We like our IRS amaturish, it gives us a running start. Good work...
posted by
FARSAILOR
on November 7, 2006 at 4:31 AM
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wondering about those hooks, just wondering.
posted by
marieclaire66
on November 7, 2006 at 1:54 AM
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the more I read it the more I like it.
You pick up something different each time. What Dave says is right, a lot of alliterations there, I often tend to look for imagery, rather than sound and techniques, because it escapes me anyway, but i see the skill now. I cannot do sonnets but I must try it one day, it must be possible, you will have to show me the ropes one day or I could find out for myself if I could be bothered.
posted by
marieclaire66
on November 7, 2006 at 1:52 AM
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Tony, superbly crafted today. Not just the usual structure, but delicious
internal rhymes as well. Good stuff.
posted by
_dave_says_ack_
on November 7, 2006 at 1:19 AM
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Hey Taxman, season is not so far away
posted by
star4sky5
on November 6, 2006 at 8:24 PM
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Clever and reflective. I had to read it twice and even so it remains mysterious.f
posted by
babe_rocks
on November 6, 2006 at 4:47 PM
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Hi RI and Troosha
Yes, RI, I nearly worked 'the taxman cometh' into the sonnet, you won't be surprised! Actually, it's a great job for the nosey by nature!
Hi Troosha - yes, I can be summed up in these fourteen lines! But then again, only the surface details are included! There's lots more to me than this - I hope!!
posted by
Antonionioni
on November 6, 2006 at 3:43 PM
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Life just seems to happen while you're living it
Nice to get a glimpse into "Tony"
posted by
Troosha
on November 6, 2006 at 3:39 PM
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Tonyz, so when "the taxman cometh", it's you?..hummmm..:)
well put (now, where did I put the "real" books??..
.)
posted by
Rumor
on November 6, 2006 at 3:39 PM
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You are good at this sonnet business.
YOu certainly summed up your life in a nutshell in this one...very interesting.
posted by
marieclaire66
on November 6, 2006 at 3:13 PM
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Tony,
Isent you this weird paranoid email but please put me straight on this one. I am expecting a friend for lunch any minute soon. she is orginally from Liverpool and just got back from England on wednesday...I am not having a very good day...
posted by
marieclaire66
on November 6, 2006 at 3:12 PM
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Yes, MC, direct translations are often futile.
All the more reason why we need language tutors, luckily!!
posted by
Antonionioni
on November 6, 2006 at 3:09 PM
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no matching word that I know of.
I would avec impatience, but it makes no reference to baited breath, if you translate literally it would sound totally ridiculous,
en haletant...en retenant ma respiration, sounds apoplectic to me...
posted by
marieclaire66
on November 6, 2006 at 2:59 PM
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Hi Najwa and Ariel
I was born in the middle of the dark month of January, Najwa. I'd much rather have been born in the summer!
Ariel - yes, time flies in the sonnetary world!
posted by
Antonionioni
on November 6, 2006 at 2:58 PM
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Hello folks.
Great pic, Ypunday. Where do you get them from? Yes, I packed in many of the most important bits into a sonnet.
MC - thanks for the CD. I await it avec baited breath. What is baited breath en francais? Je ne sais. Another French rhyme!
posted by
Antonionioni
on November 6, 2006 at 2:56 PM
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Tony you confided in us quite a bit, there, Friend. Shalom
posted by
ILLUMINATI8
on November 6, 2006 at 2:37 PM
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cool stuff, I like it .
a light hearted "account" of a day in the life of Tony.
posted by
marieclaire66
on November 6, 2006 at 2:35 PM
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THAT IS VERY NICE VERY PERFECT I WANT TO KNOW WHAT MONTH TOO YOU WERE BORN WHEN THE SUN KISSED THE MOON AND NO ONE EVER CRY OR MOURN
YOUR POEM IS UNIQUE AND VERY RARE IT IS LOVELY TOOOO
OOOOO najwa
posted by
NAJWA
on November 6, 2006 at 2:33 PM
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Tonyzonit
Yep, Mr Zonit, 'sright what they say ; time does fly when you're having fun.
Paco el Guapo
posted by
ariel70
on November 6, 2006 at 2:23 PM
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