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Recent content by jaybe

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    Favourite Poems

    Dust If You Must by Anonymous Dust if you must, but wouldn't it be better To paint a picture, or write a letter, Bake a cake, or plant a seed; Ponder the difference between want and need? Dust if you must, but there's not much time, With rivers to swim, and mountains to climb; Music to hear...
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    What have you planted recently?

    I'm planting the last of over 500 tobacco plants today. They save me a fortune.
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    Irvine Welsh: Trainspotting

    I hope you enjoy it Peder. If you loved the film you will me really knocked out by the book. It really is worth strugling with accent, because he is such a great writer.
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    Irvine Welsh: Trainspotting

    I've just read Skagboys, the prequel to Trainspotting. I just loved it! Irvine Welsh is such a genius.
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    Sherlock: BBC TV Series

    First episode of new series tonight.
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    Your best books of this year.

    Has anyone read 'A Fine and Private Place.' It's Peter S Beagle's first novel, but don't let that put you off. It's better than 'Unicorn' and is in fact my favourite all time book. Peter S. Beagle, A Fine And Private Place
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    Books like Catcher in the Rye

    I enjoyed this - New Boy by William Sutcliffe - Reviews, Discussion, Bookclubs, Lists “Smart, entertaining stuff ... somewhere between Adrian Mole and Holden Caulfield” ~ The Mail on Sunday
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    Random Question..Keep posting

    I wish I'd never started, but I'm too addicted now. So no, I don't want to stop. Do you agree with high level of smoking bans?
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    Random Question..Keep posting

    My garden is fairly big. I grow most stuff but my important crop is tobacco. What do you think of smokers?
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    Random Question..Keep posting

    ''How many people do you figure know themselves? '' A very small fraction of the number who 'think' they know themselves. I was just interrupted by someone bringing in a large baby bird. It has a big beak and is brown, white and gray. What shall I do with it?
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    Random Question..Keep posting

    I'm a hoarder, but I don't know myself. Do you know yourself?
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    Random Question..Keep posting

    Niether. Do you think the above are both lad films?
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    William Boyd: Any Human Heart

    Anyone else read this? What did you think? I really liked it.
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    Favourite Poems

    The Meek Shall Inherit The Earth by Charles Bukowski if I suffer at this typewriter think how I'd feel among the lettuce- pickers of Salinas? I think of the men I've known in factories with no way to get out- choking while living choking while laughing at Bob Hope or Lucille...
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    Favourite Poems

    The Secret - Charles Bukowski. don't worry, nobody has the beautiful lady, not really, and nobody has the strange and hidden power, nobody is exceptional or wonderful or magic, they only seem to be it's all a trick, an in, a con, don't buy it, don't believe it. the world is packed...
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