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As regular readers of this website will know, every year Tony Gazley produces a tramping calendar. And every year I somehow get roped in unwillingly to review it. For the last two years I have miraculously managed to avoid it, but now the nightmare is back. “I assume you are really keen….” says Tony in his email to me informing me of my participation, in a tone of voice that brooks no argument and suggests that some Cockney heavies will be coming around and knocking over the vases with long drawn-out exclamations of “oops” if I dare to say no. So it appears I am stuck with it.
How can I ease the agony, I found myself wondering. Looking back, I remembered that for the 2020 calendar I wrote the review as a long poem or rap, and Aimee Paterson responded with a nice concise haiku. And then inspiration struck. “That’s it!” I cried. “I can
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Ooooh the suspense!!!
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Don’t miss next week’s exciting episode where Harry reveals his cunning plan to save his vases from the Cockney heavies.
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Call me Sherlock but I think I can already guess Harry’s Cunning Plan….
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I don’t think you can be so sure about that Holmes.
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Well Watson, Sir, what can I say?
You’re quite unobservant today!
I’m sure that I’m right,
The clue’s in plain sight,
The title line gives it away!! -
Haikus are easy.
But sometimes they don’t make sense
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If that Winchcombe Biv. photo is a sample, I want the calendar whatever Harry says about it.
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You are right Watson,
Haikus can be quite cryptic:
elementary. -
No prizes for John
if he doesn’t play the game –
make it a haiku! -
There’s something in her hair that’s quite wrong
It looks more like that of King Kong
When asked why it was so
She said I don’t know
But I think I’ve been in the bush for too long
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