wordman

Thank you all so much for your comments. You are too kind. This place is great, and makes me all warm and tingly inside :-) Simon

Yeah, just lay off kid, you make the rest of us look bad! (looks round, hopes nobody noticed) :-)

Yeah he is magic.. I loved this poem, but I don't know why: "Quiet: 1.15am. 1:15am was sublime but it only lasted a minute. It just occured to me as my optic nerve sensed a person moving and my teeth gritted through the pane: I've never seen any of them during the day as I work... In the vacancy of the street, yellow lights are spaced out like prehistoric bulbs of amber. Glowing homes to blood-heavy mosquitoes. The helix of extinction is mapping a new course. So I go out and walk the streets. Peering into their black chambers, their nocturnal boudoirs. I see the school at night. Shops closed, no cars on the main road. I bet I wont see them tomorrow either. Perhaps I'm not allowed to? Maybe they just see me and say "there's the chap who tried to catch a glimpse of us last night, full alert for everyone." So now I sleep, and abandon the streets I've never seen them in. " - wordman - http://www.abctales.com/abcplex/viewStory.cgi?s=18848

I think he brought himself to our attention, andrew! I spent yesterday searching for BAD one so I could sneer knowingly! :-? I couldn't find one! How is he so good? Because he's from liverpool? Like me? there may be hope for me yet :-)