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Unread 06-01-2019, 05:59 AM
Jerome Betts Jerome Betts is offline
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Default Spherical Summer Blooms In June LUPO


Lighten Up Online's Issue 46 for June 2019 is now up and running with a scintillating array of Spherical stalwarts on the bill, viz Melissa Balmain, Jerome Betts,, Kim Bridgford, Terese Coe, Martin Elster, Max Goodman, Robin Helweg-Larsen, Barbara Loots, Chris O’Carroll, Martin Parker, Susan de Sola and Gail White, along with new members Damian Balassone, Janice Canerdy, Barbara Lydecker Crane, Daniel Galef, David Galef, Midge Goldberg, Julia Griffin and Bruce McGuffin.
Among their offerings are tennis, dogs, bugs, birds of a kind, paintings, plastic surgery, living things on lakes, and a judge’s eye view of poetry competitions not to mention, zombies, Zuckerbergs, Emperor Constantine, President Washington, Maria Sharapova, St Anselm, Jeff Bezos, and sycophants.
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Thanks, Jerome.

https://www.lightenup-online.co.uk/i...e-46-june-2019
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Thanks, Jerome. I'm reading through the issue and enjoying it very much.

The first poem (by Martin Parker) got my interest right off the bat, as I’ve watched a good deal of snooker on YouTube in the last couple of years (don’t ask why), so am familiar with the names and game tactics the poem alludes to.

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Martin
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Looks like a great issue. Well done.

I also have a very short and slight little rhyme in the Competition results.
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Jerome Betts Jerome Betts is offline
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Julie, thanks for adding the link, which I sometimes overlook.

Martin, your namesake will no doubt be pleased that the snooker theme 'carried' with at least one American,, though I'm hazy about the precise details of the different games on green baize.

Roger, thanks, and sorry I missed your name from announcement here but can't get the edit post function to work (You're there in the In This Issue credits.)
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Thanks for sharing, Jerome. I will be poring over this issue. Congratulations in advance to all Spherians found within it!
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COngratulations Spherians in these pages!
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Great issue, Jerome.

Best,
Vera
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A rollicking good time, as always, Jerome! (I esp. appreciated the tennis theme, which was both entertaining and a reminder to watch some of the French Open before it's completely over.) Congrats to all my Spherean friends in the issue.
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Unread 06-05-2019, 08:15 AM
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The French Open will eventually be completely over, but there will be another one next year. Or as Bob Dylan put it:

The train leaves at half past ten
But it'll be back in the same old spot again


Cheers,
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