That's the goods, Janet. I was a bit puzzled by 'Quant had' Perhaps you'd make it easier for the reader (they're not all as clever as thee and me) if you write 'Quant'd'.

Thanks John. I was already tempt'd.

Moi?


What a fake your French provincial
print, and clogs from Dr Scholl,
bought in King’s Road, a vestigial
country costume for a doll.

But I felt so free and pretty
when I clattered with my basket
going shopping in the city.
All a game, so don’t unmask it.

Now I’m country top and bottom
all of me the real Mackay.
Marie Antoinette forgotten
underneath a Queensland sky.

But your clothes are drab and boring
and your face, if truth be told.
Something we are both ignoring,
I am young and you are old.

Chewing the Fat With His Photo

Look at your balding pate, it looks as grey
as storm clouds, whereas mine’s linguini-sleek.
Look at the duds you’re modeling. Today,
if you marched round in those, people would shriek
or snigger, gawk, or try to get away.
Where I am, folks consider me quite chic.
And, anyway, I have all of my teeth.
That’s true. But I am wiser underneath,

as knowledgeable as a man my age
should be. I’ve learned that money isn’t all
there is in life. I’ve learned one mustn’t gauge
such things as joy by how one’s acres sprawl.
In fact, the place I live is a mere cage,
a studio. You mean you dropped the ball
on my investments? Don’t be so irate!
You’re just a photograph. End of debate.

"The way you sneer when you say thirty
as though the very word were dirty!"
"You're one to talk, old friend of mine,
when each year you turn thirty-nine!"

http://us.123rf.com/400wm/400/400/sp...013/733979.jpg

One of us better win that tea set! (where are you, Bill Greenwell?) If for no other reason than to see what it looks like.
(it sure sounds classy, though).


Could this be it?

http://www.taylorsofharrogate.co.uk/item.asp?itmid=1660

Maybe the cake comes separately.

Bloody Hell, I don't call THAT tea-set. Also it appears that only I can win it (and Holly and Ann D of course) since you have to be within the UK to get it. So Marion, if you win, you can gift the thing to me.

They call it a "tea box set."

I didn't see anything like a "tea and cake set" on the Website.
:confused:

So they won't send it here, huh? Maybe they don't want another Boston tea party!

It sounds like the things I tried to refuse tactfully from my mother. She was surrounded by bone china.

http://www.potteryuk.com/shop/images...TEASET%203.jpg

I always suspected that I had a long-lost twin, and it appears to be Janet, as we seem to have had the same mother.