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    Hope you recover soon Alf!

    Clart: To daub, smear, or spread, as with mud, etc

    The Commondale Clart is a good example!!


    Quote Originally Posted by Alf View Post
    That sums it up nicely Harry I think it was pulling my leg out of a "bloody bog" that did the damage!.

    Well done freckle by the way for running it as a "comeback race" :w00t:

    What's a "clart" ?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hes View Post
    Hope you recover soon Alf!

    Clart: To daub, smear, or spread, as with mud, etc

    The Commondale Clart is a good example!!

    A good description Hes...you may also hear the odd geordie use the following expression which I rather like..."What a clart on!" meaning that doing a particular action is somewhat convoluted...if Oven Gloves were here he would back me up I suspect!
    Last edited by freckle; 18-01-2011 at 02:02 PM. Reason: spelling

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hes View Post
    Hope you recover soon Alf!

    Clart: To daub, smear, or spread, as with mud, etc

    The Commondale Clart is a good example!!
    Quote Originally Posted by freckle View Post
    A good description Hes...you may also hear the odd geordie use the following expression which I rather like..."What a clart on!" meaning that doing a particular action is somewhat convoluted...if Oven Gloves were here he would back me up I suspect!

    That's my vocabulary extended by another word now (though I'm sure it sounds better pronounced in a NE accent)

    "Beyond a mortal man impassion'd far
    At these voluptuous accents, he arose,
    Ethereal, flush'd, and like a throbbing star
    Seen mid the sapphire heaven's deep repose;
    Into her dream he melted, as the rose
    Blendeth its odour with the violet,--
    Solution sweet: meantime the frost-wind blows
    Like Love's alarum pattering the sharp sleet
    Against the window-panes; St. Agnes' moon hath set."

    John Keats

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    Two new words for me Alf, tonight i av been mostly slathered in clarts:w00t:

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    Great stuff HHH - you must have been there, incognito. I really enjoyed this.
    If only JCC had been a fell runner.

    Quote Originally Posted by Harry H Howgill View Post
    This is for you then Alf. Just in case you missed it last year. Credit to John Cooper Clarke as ever.

    Simonside

    The bloody frost the bloody ice
    I thought it would be bloody nice
    To go out to a bloody race
    To bloody show my bloody face
    The bloody course was bloody good
    The bloody rocks the bloody mud
    The marshals they were bloody great
    They bloody were first bloody rate
    I’m bloody glad I shared a ride
    To go run bloody Simonside

    I heard a bloody runner yell
    Too bloody late I bloody fell
    In a freezing bloody ditch
    Then I got the bloody stitch
    The bloody aches the bloody pain
    At least it didn’t bloody rain
    That bloody hill was bloody steep
    It nearly made me bloody weep
    “You’ll be fine” they bloody lied
    All round bloody Simonside

    Too bloody fast the bloody pace
    Will be my last this bloody race
    I set of too damn bloody fast
    Everyone came bloody past
    Bloody blisters bloody murder
    Eleven miles? It’s bloody further!
    Bloody loved it, bloody ace
    My bloody favourite bloody race
    I bloody laughed I bloody cried
    Evidently Simonside

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    Alf - this is lush! I put up the 1st verse of this a few weeks ago and declared the rest to be tedious waffle. I was wrong!

    Quote Originally Posted by Alf View Post
    That's my vocabulary extended by another word now (though I'm sure it sounds better pronounced in a NE accent)

    "Beyond a mortal man impassion'd far
    At these voluptuous accents, he arose,
    Ethereal, flush'd, and like a throbbing star
    Seen mid the sapphire heaven's deep repose;
    Into her dream he melted, as the rose
    Blendeth its odour with the violet,--
    Solution sweet: meantime the frost-wind blows
    Like Love's alarum pattering the sharp sleet
    Against the window-panes; St. Agnes' moon hath set."

    John Keats

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    Lack of emotional turmoil and the emergence of some kind of stability in my life is weighing me down! It may also be the beer. Anyway, I've added swimming to the weekly routine.

    Speedos

    Like the camera
    and Shakira's hips
    Speedos never lie.

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    So many great posts over the past few days and so comments I want to make , but I'm aware that some of my previous post's sound like some kind of lunatic Oscars acceptance speech ! So with that in mind , going to try and keep it brief .......

    One Off Poet , loved your ' Baby steps ' poem , you magnified memories that I have , and all mothers have when eagerly anticipating the birth of a new baby ! Your poem is just lovely ....
    Look forward to hearing more and to hearing whether or not you have a little boy or a little girl xxx

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    Quote Originally Posted by Old Whippet View Post
    Lack of emotional turmoil and the emergence of some kind of stability in my life is weighing me down! It may also be the beer. Anyway, I've added swimming to the weekly routine.

    Speedos

    Like the camera
    and Shakira's hips
    Speedos never lie.
    Ha ha ! this is one of your finest OW! shakira's hips?

    Alf- I did like the Keats, especially the reference to stars that throb

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    Quote Originally Posted by MachGirl View Post
    So many great posts over the past few days and so comments I want to make , but I'm aware that some of my previous post's sound like some kind of lunatic Oscars acceptance speech ! So with that in mind , going to try and keep it brief .......

    One Off Poet , loved your ' Baby steps ' poem , you magnified memories that I have , and all mothers have when eagerly anticipating the birth of a new baby ! Your poem is just lovely ....
    Look forward to hearing more and to hearing whether or not you have a little boy or a little girl xxx

    a lunatics oscars acceptance speech? as we say up here "wye nooooo!" , your contributions are always warmly welcomed!

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