Vagueness and the Aftermath - A sporadic diary

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Hi Tom,
           Looks like you had a great time on your travels. Thought the poem was brilliant , sort of sadly funny , if that's an actual phrase lol. I have written a couple of poems/odes ( not very well or quickly), and find it incredibly frustrating how we can know and speak millions of words at ease , but you try and put a few of the buggers together to try and get 'em to rhyme and make a bit of sense , and how find out how difficult it is !!!   

Don't be too hard on yourself. Writing is only difficult for those people who try to write well. I'm not sure they are ever satisfied with their own stuff.


I'm glad you liked the poem, even Tony read the last few lines and said it was alrightish. That's the most praise he's ever given to anything that could be construed as art so it must be good.

[tikay]

Hi Tom,
           Looks like you had a great time on your travels. Thought the poem was brilliant , sort of sadly funny , if that's an actual phrase lol. I have written a couple of poems/odes ( not very well or quickly), and find it incredibly frustrating how we can know and speak millions of words at ease , but you try and put a few of the buggers together to try and get 'em to rhyme and make a bit of sense , and how find out how difficult it is !!!   

Don't be too hard on yourself. Writing is only difficult for those people who try to write well. I'm not sure they are ever satisfied with their own stuff.


I'm glad you liked the poem, even Tony read the last few lines and said it was alrightish. That's the most praise he's ever given to anything that could be construed as art so it must be good.

I read the first few lines (verses?), too.

Then I fell asleep for an hour, & woke up at the last 2 verses.

I prefer it a little more basic.

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Baldrick: I could go on all night.

Blackadder: Not with a bayonet through your neck you couldn't.

[Woodsey]

This was in Rajasthan somewhere near Jaipur. I can't remember the exact details because I was suffering from sensory overload.

I was moving along quietly, trying to get a snap of an egret that I kept catching a glimpse of as it worked it's way along the shore of this lake when a different photograph entirely just sort of composed itself before my eyes. All I did was press the button.

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I think I might have the same pic minus a full lake  

[Rod Paradise]

Rod.

I was so sorry to hear about your spill when you collected your new bike, I made a joke about it but then my Internet connection went down so I wasn't able to follow it up with any real sympathy.

On the good side, you have managed to get your maditory spill out of the way early.

How's the hand shaping up?

It's fine, an odd twinge but not bad. I seem to have misplaced the knuckle on my right ring finger though  - it's just gone, and the metacarpal for that finger is broken up at the wrist end. A few weeks in plaster & I can go try and collect the bike again. I'd be worried about it putting me off but having ridden back to the garage I'm not worried, I'm just annoyed the weather has been magnificent since - great biking weather

Bike's going to cost £50-60 to fix, the garage will store it for me for free which is nice of them - finding the camaraderie of the biker community great, folk offering to go get it for me, advice, or just stories about their most embarrassing spill.

I'll be delighted if that's the worst fall I have. Ordering new helmet and gloves (with knuckle protection) on payday & then waiting for the all clear from the doc. Then I get to work getting the experience that would have had me avoiding the accident.

Don't worry about the joke, I take the piss enough to laugh when it's my turn

[Kev B]

Great pics Tom, just looks amazing.

Loved the poem.

[tikay]

Great pics Tom, just looks amazing.

Loved the poem.

Me too, but I'm a busy man, so I read War & Peace instead. Lot quicker, that.

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Great pics Tom, just looks amazing.

Loved the poem.

Now a promise made is a debt unpaid...


What a great line.

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This was in Rajasthan somewhere near Jaipur. I can't remember the exact details because I was suffering from sensory overload.

I was moving along quietly, trying to get a snap of an egret that I kept catching a glimpse of as it worked it's way along the shore of this lake when a different photograph entirely just sort of composed itself before my eyes. All I did was press the button.

Click to see full-size image.

I think I might have the same pic minus a full lake  

Do you really? Try to dig it out and let's have a look.

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Every time we stopped to eat we were pestered by starlings begging for food.


We didn't mind though, it was a mynah inconvenience.



I'll get my coat   

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[Woodsey]

This was in Rajasthan somewhere near Jaipur. I can't remember the exact details because I was suffering from sensory overload.

I was moving along quietly, trying to get a snap of an egret that I kept catching a glimpse of as it worked it's way along the shore of this lake when a different photograph entirely just sort of composed itself before my eyes. All I did was press the button.

Click to see full-size image.

I think I might have the same pic minus a full lake  

Do you really? Try to dig it out and let's have a look.

Found it 

Click to see full-size image.

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This was in Rajasthan somewhere near Jaipur. I can't remember the exact details because I was suffering from sensory overload.

I was moving along quietly, trying to get a snap of an egret that I kept catching a glimpse of as it worked it's way along the shore of this lake when a different photograph entirely just sort of composed itself before my eyes. All I did was press the button.

Click to see full-size image.

I think I might have the same pic minus a full lake  

Do you really? Try to dig it out and let's have a look.

Found it 

Click to see full-size image.

Wow! That's amazing. Well spotted too.

[sonour]

More pics of India please when you have time  

I can quite understand that India wouldn't be everyone's cup of tea, (No pun intended) but I absolutely loved it. It is definitely one of the most amazing, inspiring, jaw dropping, thought provoking  places in the world.

I have managed to cull my 'keeper' photographs down from 1027 to 450.

I will post some of them on here but I'm not going to do a trip report as such. I wanted to do one, (and a know this sounds daft) but it seems like too much of a responsibility and I'm afraid I won't do it justice, so I'll just post some pics with rambly captions.

Tom, if anyone could do it justice you could.
Do you think you could rethink the trip report please, I've been looking forward to it and was so sure we would get one when you returned.

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More pics of India please when you have time  

I can quite understand that India wouldn't be everyone's cup of tea, (No pun intended) but I absolutely loved it. It is definitely one of the most amazing, inspiring, jaw dropping, thought provoking  places in the world.

I have managed to cull my 'keeper' photographs down from 1027 to 450.

I will post some of them on here but I'm not going to do a trip report as such. I wanted to do one, (and a know this sounds daft) but it seems like too much of a responsibility and I'm afraid I won't do it justice, so I'll just post some pics with rambly captions.

Tom, if anyone could do it justice you could.
Do you think you could rethink the trip report please, I've been looking forward to it and was so sure we would get one when you returned.

I can't imagine anyone ever saying no to you Lisa.

[Karabiner]

Blimey I've been a little bit distracted lately and not really looked on here for a week or so and you've been half way around the world while I wasn't paying attention.

I'm glad to see that you had a lovely time and looking forward to the trip-report.

Did you have a driver for the whole trip and was it expensive?

Were there many elephants and cows on the roads?