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Well Taps I only come every two days here now as I thought I was being overbearing.
posted by
C_C_T
on March 9, 2014 at 12:52 AM
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I came back to look at the rose again. I can almost smell it.
posted by
TAPS.
on March 8, 2014 at 3:41 PM
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Re: C.C.
Thank you Justi you do look sweet.
posted by
C_C_T
on March 8, 2014 at 11:23 AM
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C.C.
Of course I loved the writing I always do but the rose took the show. This is so wonderfully a show stopper. I love roses and especially yellow ones. It is beautiful. Be blessed and have a wonderful day....
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Justi
on March 8, 2014 at 1:46 AM
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Yes a bit different FS did not want to confuse as the Chinese say. What does a deaf Cod need? A herring aid of course. Arthur started making up funnies.
posted by
C_C_T
on March 8, 2014 at 12:01 AM
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Re: I was about to get out my trusty Oxford dictionary to look up
Yes it is interesting Pat how different words are formed I bought a massive English dictionary must be 50 years ago I remember 5 pounds and I had to order it from a bookshop. I made a teacher laugh once I told him how the flower Peony was formed .
As you may know it has large round seeds. And someone might have said look
there's a pea on ee.
posted by
C_C_T
on March 7, 2014 at 11:57 PM
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Is the ground warm enough yet Jay I like to put my hand on the good earth and feel the warmth before I attempt to plant anything although peas are tough little varmints.
posted by
C_C_T
on March 7, 2014 at 11:49 PM
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Re: CCT
Well you see Naut we are fastidious we would not dream of saying pass the pruning shears now we do not prune sheep. I have a constant battle with this spell checker(although I am a lousy speller) I mean (color) instead of colour it seems kind of colourless. keep eating the squids. Yes the stranger
posted by
C_C_T
on March 7, 2014 at 11:46 PM
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CCT
You Brits and your high-falutin' language, LOL. Us yokels here in the colonies call those things pruning shears, unless you're a Quebec yokel, of course, in which case you may use a word dating back to the 16th century...The mother/daughter/mysterious stranger encounter is masterfully done...
posted by
Nautikos
on March 7, 2014 at 6:06 PM
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I have the same problems here CCT. I want to get my peas in, but it just keeps raining. I am happy you got your computer in line, or rather Archie did. I'm afraid that something will soon need to be done to mine, sometimes it takes minutes just to go from one blog comment to the next.
posted by
UtahJay
on March 7, 2014 at 4:43 PM
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I was about to get out my trusty Oxford dictionary to look up
secateurs, although I had a pretty good idea what the word meant - and then TAPS wrote a comment that explained. These posts of yours branch out like plants, bringing new leaves from the dictionary from time to time. Interesting little turn-about poem with a shift in perspective, and the child who doesn't get it that she's lovely enough to inspire. Thank you so much for the brilliant yellow rose.
posted by
Pat_B
on March 7, 2014 at 2:52 PM
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Re: Ciel
Yes I have a guilty feeling Ciel . I must thank you for joining the gallery, I think the others will weaken in time. I haven't forgotten your birthday.
posted by
C_C_T
on March 7, 2014 at 12:23 PM
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The online word can be such a hassle at times...I like how in the poem you have us thinking from the perspective of the daughter. That adds a lot to the poem.
posted by
FormerStudentIntern
on March 7, 2014 at 12:20 PM
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Well shears to us mean a larger implement Garden Shears to cut grass.
Secateurs are small hand cutters for pruning. I see you did not cast judgment upon
we uns.
posted by
C_C_T
on March 7, 2014 at 12:15 PM
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How different a scene it is,
depending on whose eyes are looking. Only here, the mother's view is absent.
Beautiful rose! No wonder you did not resist temptation!
posted by
Ciel
on March 7, 2014 at 12:12 PM
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Now, if you had just said pruning shears, I wouldn't have had to do that.
posted by
TAPS.
on March 7, 2014 at 11:54 AM
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This whole post, all three parts of it, is very entertaining. You always entertain me with your writing. I do have to go google secateurs (sp?) though.
posted by
TAPS.
on March 7, 2014 at 11:52 AM
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