http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: OT - Poetry Reading en Tue, 21 Apr 2026 09:00:10 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18529&page=2#post-352963 Mon, 19 Jul 2021 02:55:14 +0000 minus six 352963@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>the sound of gunfire off in the distance</p> <p>i'm getting used to it now</p> <p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jShMQw2H2cM" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jShMQw2H2cM</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18529&page=2#post-352961 Mon, 19 Jul 2021 00:58:04 +0000 minus six 352961@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>They say they're a part of you<br /> And that's not true you know</p> <p>They say they've got control of you<br /> And that's a lie you know</p> <p>They say you will never be free</p> <p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26VMUqbMPd0" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26VMUqbMPd0</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18529&page=2#post-346260 Fri, 12 Feb 2021 12:59:58 +0000 gembo 346260@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Attila the Stockbroker has a new poem today called Insellaffen. He says it is German for Island Apes.</p> <p>He is not a fan of Brexit </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18529&page=2#post-328087 Tue, 21 Apr 2020 13:03:38 +0000 I were right about that saddle 328087@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Yes I was barred from PROCTORS BAR for singing Elvis Costello's My Aim Is True in a duet, quite possibly by Mr Henderson. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18529&page=2#post-328083 Tue, 21 Apr 2020 11:38:43 +0000 gembo 328083@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Good old Hamish, I will never forget him rising to his full height and telling his dog to desist one night in PROCTORS BAR. Down Sandy he bellowed </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18529&page=2#post-328081 Tue, 21 Apr 2020 11:10:02 +0000 I were right about that saddle 328081@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Hamish Henderson's <em>The Speakin Hert</em> which I desperately want to render into Doric. 'Gid' instead of 'gaed', 'gang' instead of 'gae', 'spikkin hairt' in place of 'speaking hert' and so on.</p> <p><em>A puir lad yince an a lad sae trim<br /> Hi the haw, the gillieflour, hi the thyme!<br /> A puir lad yince an a lad sae trim<br /> He loed a lassie wha loedna him.</p> <p>Says, she gae fetch to me ye rogue<br /> Hi the haw, the gillieflour, hi the thyme!<br /> Says, she gae fetch to me ye rogue<br /> Your mither’s heart for tae feed my dog</p> <p>Tae his mither’s hous gaed this young man<br /> Hi the haw, the gillieflour, hi the thyme!<br /> Tae his mither’s hous gaed this young man<br /> He cut out her heart an awa he ran.</p> <p>Nou as he ran he trippit and fell<br /> Hi the haw, the gillieflour, hi the thyme!<br /> As he ran he trippit and fell<br /> An the heart rolled on the grun as well</p> <p>Nou the heart it stotted against a stane<br /> Hi the haw, the gillieflour, hi the thyme!<br /> The heart it stotted against a stane<br /> And the laddie heard it makin its mane.</p> <p>Nou the heart was greetin and cryin fu sma<br /> Hi the haw, the gillieflour, hi the thyme!<br /> The heart was greetin and cryin fu sma<br /> Are ye hurt my bairn, are ye hurt at aa?</em> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18529&page=2#post-320731 Mon, 13 Jan 2020 16:16:10 +0000 I were right about that saddle 320731@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I am just negotiating a repeat performance of my famous Franco-Caledonian version of Burns' Tam O'Shanter. I'll be oot the country on the 25th this year before burning my passport on my return.</p> <p>In the meantime, some found poetry from a whiteboard at work;</p> <p><em>Foreign objects<br /> Spurting<br /> Trickling<br /> Oozing</em> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18529&page=2#post-300129 Sat, 26 Jan 2019 18:33:57 +0000 I were right about that saddle 300129@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@Frenchie has just pointed out that I am an idiot;</p> <p><em>Friday, January 26th, 18h00</em></p> <p>Friday <em>25th</em> of course. Eejit. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18529&page=2#post-300044 Fri, 25 Jan 2019 12:54:13 +0000 I were right about that saddle 300044@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Some ither fowk hid i same notion as me, pittin Burns in forrin leids;</p> <p><a href="https://twitter.com/Scotland/status/1087741683641475072" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/Scotland/status/1087741683641475072</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18529&page=2#post-299907 Wed, 23 Jan 2019 21:10:08 +0000 gembo 299907@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I have supplied cheese and cider tho these may justifiably be consumed by the performer and or spouse as what we theatricals call The Rider.</p> <p>Someone at PY or Not PY please ask me what Nna Simone's rider was at the Nick Cave curated Meltdown Festival as recounted in his film 20,000 days on earth </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18529&page=2#post-299890 Wed, 23 Jan 2019 16:16:52 +0000 I were right about that saddle 299890@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@unhurt</p> <p>Thank you for your endorsement. I aim to provide Experiences. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18529&page=2#post-299887 Wed, 23 Jan 2019 15:35:50 +0000 unhurt 299887@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I attended this performance* last year and will attest that it was An Experience. </p> <p>*Lasswade Road, not Downing Street </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18529&page=2#post-299863 Wed, 23 Jan 2019 10:05:01 +0000 I were right about that saddle 299863@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>David Lidington dressed for Burns Night:</p> <p><img src="https://thumbs.dreamstime.com/thumblarge_1397/13979407.jpg"> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18529&page=2#post-299858 Wed, 23 Jan 2019 09:52:55 +0000 gembo 299858@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>That link is just for Masons. Apt though for burns was in the craft.</p> <p>I once went to a ceilidh at the Scottish Office in Londn - Dover House with its rope in the stairs for Byron to haul himself up.</p> <p>Anyway the under Secretary of State for Scotland (ie our top civil servant) remarked that Mrs Garto and I must have danced the Strip The Willow many times together. Strangely it was our first time. But due to being pished I insisted on going for the reverse interlock grip for the spinning which made us look like pros in Sir Russell's eyes. I was merely trying to stay vertical. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18529&page=2#post-299856 Wed, 23 Jan 2019 09:45:30 +0000 I were right about that saddle 299856@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/news/prime-minister-hosts-burns-night-supper-in-downing-street">Guests included Chief Executive of the Scottish Fishermen’s Federation Bertie Armstrong and Tunnock’s Boyd Tunnock....Secretary of State for Scotland David Mundell, Environment Secretary Michael Gove and the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster David Lidington also joined in the celebrations.</a></p> <p>I can't guarantee such a stellar guest list, but still I'd be delighted to see anyone passing 31 Lasswade Road at 18h00 on Friday for a spot of guttural McDoggerel. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18529&page=2#post-298798 Mon, 07 Jan 2019 15:03:56 +0000 I were right about that saddle 298798@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Frenchy loon ah've nivir kint onbody wis haerder tae get hud o. We'll jist hae tae live stream't. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18529&page=2#post-298796 Mon, 07 Jan 2019 15:01:31 +0000 Frenchy 298796@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>26th is nae eese, min, I've ariddy got anither do tae ging tull. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18529#post-298793 Mon, 07 Jan 2019 14:58:30 +0000 I were right about that saddle 298793@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Back by unpopular acclaim!</p> <p>Tam O'Shanter delivered in Froggospeak and then the original Jockanese by IWRATS after a brief declamation on the state of the wor(l)d.</p> <p>Friday, January 26th, 18h00, 31 Lasswade Road. Bring a bottle of ale.</p> <p>The venue is a political hub for <a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Do6JHNoW4AA-gDr.jpg">folk of a Certain Leaning</a> but all are welcome and I mean all, a man being a man and aw that and aw that. </p> <p>I'm certainly hoping @Frenchie can swing by this year to critique my Scots and discuss bunnets. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18529#post-273824 Sun, 28 Jan 2018 15:11:57 +0000 dessert rat 273824@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>There was an odd fellow named Gus,<br /> When travelling he made such a fuss.<br /> He was banned from the train,<br /> Not allowed on a plane,<br /> And now travels only by <strike>bus</strike> bike. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18529#post-273823 Sun, 28 Jan 2018 13:02:12 +0000 unhurt 273823@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Maybe you could alter one of these? <a href="https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/264311901/dog-or-cat-long-john-style-fleece?ga_order=most_relevant&amp;ga_search_type=all&amp;ga_view_type=gallery&amp;ga_search_query=paisley%20dog%20fleece&amp;ref=sr_gallery-1-1">Paisley(ish) pattern fleece longjohns (for dogs).</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18529#post-273783 Sat, 27 Jan 2018 10:12:52 +0000 gembo 273783@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Ah the silver fox, he is more a rapper than a burns supper person. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18529#post-273782 Sat, 27 Jan 2018 10:08:04 +0000 I were right about that saddle 273782@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@gembo</p> <p>I'm way too radical for Folin Cox so he stayed on vacation in Marbella. The lack of PA meant I was unplugged but I tapped into my inner gembo and gied it acoustic laldy. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18529#post-273780 Sat, 27 Jan 2018 10:02:33 +0000 gembo 273780@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@iwrats, glad it went well. Did the foxy gentleman park his merc next to unhurt's bike. She survived her first ever trip to liberton </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18529#post-273778 Sat, 27 Jan 2018 09:45:58 +0000 I were right about that saddle 273778@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>I like poetry, Burns, candles, beer and conversation</em></p> <p>Most excellent, just a pity I mis-timed the storm I ordered for sound effects. It's being delivered the morn.</p> <p>For the record I didn't understand the French either. Just did it fuhnetiklay. Much like the Scots.</p> <p>At the minute all my fleeces are green, blue, grey or black. I do lament the limited colour palette in technical menswear. Perhaps I'll find one in Paisley harn? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18529#post-273772 Fri, 26 Jan 2018 23:29:31 +0000 unhurt 273772@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Me, not listening? Pfft. As if... </p> <p>Btw, my bike was very brave, left outside on its own in the southern wilds of Liberton. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18529#post-273768 Fri, 26 Jan 2018 22:31:26 +0000 gembo 273768@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Lots of people told you, ypu just were not listening </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18529#post-273764 Fri, 26 Jan 2018 22:19:45 +0000 unhurt 273764@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Nobody told me* the venue was at the top of Kirk Brae. It's a good thing I like poetry, Burns, candles, beer and conversation. Can't claim to have understood the French version beyond my tribal memory of the order in which stuff happens. Only one minor attempt at rabble-rousing wrt to T. May's Britishisation of Burns Night. Dog-washers, you might feel a wee pang of regret? Also, people of CCE, did you know that @Iwrats owns tops not made of green fleece or stripes? I did not. </p> <p>P.S. Tam is an awful gatecrasher and seems to have ruined a decent shindig with his unasked for drunken commentary.</p> <p>*failed to check google maps </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18529#post-273650 Thu, 25 Jan 2018 19:56:22 +0000 unhurt 273650@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Via the rather good @PulpLibrarian on Twitter:</p> <p><a href="https://flic.kr/p/23JBR2h"><img src="https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4694/39863692742_6265b284cc_n.jpg"></a></p> <p>"A whisky mine you say... Hot Dam, by Neil MacNeil (aka W T Ballard) Gold Medal Books, 1960." </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18529#post-273632 Thu, 25 Jan 2018 16:27:16 +0000 I were right about that saddle 273632@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2018/jan/25/this-burns-night-consider-celebrating-virginia-woolf-instead">Somebody's not quite grasped the idea.</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18529#post-273629 Thu, 25 Jan 2018 15:06:32 +0000 I were right about that saddle 273629@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Based of course on <a href="http://www.ldh-france.org/section/auxerre/files/2010/12/LDH-Déclaration-des-droits-de-lhomme-et-du-citoyen-de-1789.pdf">Déclaration des droits de l'homme et du citoyen de 1789</a> which Burns knew well.</p> <p><em>Article premier</p> <p>Les hommes naissent et demeurent libres et égaux en droits. Les distinctions sociales ne peuvent être fondées que sur l’utilité commune.</em> </p>