Do you know for the first time I actually forgot to send in my entry. But the winners were better anyway. Bazza was as good as he usually is, our Australian associate, Janet, won again. Janet, this is becoming a habit. And Robert Schechter was mentioned in dispatches. Well done those people. And now, obviously just for me. I have no idea what 'you are invited to supply' means.
I've got a new computer with Wndows 7 which is the work of the devil. Get me some more of the old. But my old machine was getting confused, according to a technowhiz. I know how it felt.
NO. 2718: medical record
James Michie (Jaspistos) wrote a poem entitled ‘On Being Fitted with a Pacemaker’. You are invited to submit your own account, in verse, of a medical procedure undergone (16 lines maximum). You are invited to supply. Please email entries, if possible, to
lucy@spectator.co.uk by midday on 12 October.