Hello all: This is my first story of my life. I think I have it in order. I hope you will enjoy it or have something to talk about. I am open to all suggestion being I really do not understand how to put all of this in one area in this site. Thanks...

This is very long but I like it a lot. Descriptive I know but read.
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This is excellent.

Short, powerful, emotive and evocative. Not easy in such a short space:

http://www.abctales.com/story/romyd/shapes

Try it!

Did anyone see Stephen Fry's attack on the state of modern poetry?

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,1593317,00.html

In his new book, 'The Ode Less Travelled', he produces an example of 'modern poetry' written by him and the criticises it:

"cigaretted and drinked

loaded against yourself

you seem so yes bold

irreducible

but nuded and afterloved

you are not so strong

are you

after all

So... you get to do whatever you like today - what would it be?

Who else watched 'A Very Social Secretary'?

Bernard Hill was brilliant as Sheffield's very own delta blues singer, Blind Boy Blunkett, BUT most of the others were bloody awful. I mean HOW could they cast an attractive woman as 'letterbox gob' Cherie Blair? And 'Boris' was hopeless too. Rory Bremner would have been a better choice to play Tone as well.

It would be interesting to get Blunkett's account of the shagging scene, I bet it wasn't as good as they portrayed it. They didn't even use the dog to point him in the right direction!