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Kenneth Wilson's avatar

Thanks for the shout-out, Jake! I don't feel plagiarised, and if I've provided the smallest bit of inspiration, I'm honoured. Carry on...

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Jane's avatar

Jake you write SO BEAUTIFULLY

Reading your accounts of this wonderful and somewhat wet adventure is like dancing along on a bicycle with you. You are a literary alchemist

Thankyou thankyou, Peer of the pedals

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Jake Thorpe's avatar

How kind of you, Jane! I’m so glad it lands. I’m finding writing a very helpful mental occupation while doing some more physical sabbatical-ing! I’m allowing a slight idea of some journalism to brew... I’ll make some concrete steps over the Christmas break before kicking off Phase 2 in January. Your encouragement is so appreciated.

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Andrew Christophers's avatar

#BeMoreErwin

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Jake Thorpe's avatar

An new BG value?!

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ChrisFD's avatar

As a leading producer of verse

I assure you you could do much worse

Than churning out limricks

(MIne sold out like hotbricks)

Being solemn is truly a curse.

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Jake Thorpe's avatar

I’m godson to such a producer

Of poems, rhymes, lines that enduce a

Sense of weaving like snakes

With a slick flow that makes

His verse seem like the hair of Medusa

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ChrisFD's avatar

Your very good health sir! I like

The cut of your jib. Your rhymes strike

All your readers with awe.

Please write a lot more

As you zoom further south on your bike!

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Jonathan Hartnell-Beavis's avatar

I may need to rethink the last 20 years, start a campsite, have more children then open a bikeshop......clearly more effective than my weak attempts at self-improvement by meditation.

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Jake Thorpe's avatar

I think Erwin’s philosophy is malleable enough to cover a kitchen garden... better late than never, eh?!

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Jane's avatar

And are you going to be a journalist in your next job? You could command fabulous fees you know

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Jane's avatar

Ps

You could also have described Karel's bike as rather like a large plastic banana

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Jake Thorpe's avatar

Now that’s a far more eloquent description... with this, I could’ve omitted the picture, I’m sure!

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