Today's poet

[Hes]

Hope you recover soon Alf!

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

The Commondale Clart is a good example!!

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" ?

[freckle]

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!

[Alf]

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!

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

[stevefoster]

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

[Old Whippet]

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

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

[Old Whippet]

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!

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

[Old Whippet]

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.

[MachGirl]

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

[freckle]

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

[freckle]

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!