Brian,
The typo was theirs, not mine, now corrected! They've missed out the word 'full' in the magazine, which is a shame. My July winning poem wasn't punctuated the way I had submitted it and my name was incorrectly spelt. I can't believe that someone must actually type out the entries; haven't 'The Oldies' heard of
cut and paste?
One of the staff sends me a pdf so what I post here is
exactly what appears in The Oldie mag.
Now... they've got the deadline for the current comp wrong as well. Instead of July 27th, it's August 24th; I rang them this morning to check, and have altered the title of the other thread accordingly.
One thing we know: that Brian can
always write poems that are really funny and will perfectly scan. 
Jayne