Modestly introducing Tallis Steelyard (Now nominated!) Showing 151-200 of 1,740

[Rosemary (grooving with the Picts)]

Oh I think you're right. How disappointing!

[Gingerlily - The Full Wild]

I can get you some lettuce if you want to replace it...

[Jim]

I assumed it was shavings of green coloured icing :-)

[Jim]

And a romance for Valentine's day

https://tallissteelyard.wordpress.com...

[Gingerlily - The Full Wild]

Thats more like my idea of romance!


Or as a certain book spells it... Romacne.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Romacne-Stepb...

[Jim]

Searching by romacne with google brings out all sorts of fine literature.......
But I bet none of them have the 'happy ever after ending'

[Gingerlily - The Full Wild]

Its a very niche genre.

[Jim]

Never mind, let them but once read the flowing prose and elegantly crafted verses of Tallis Steelyard and they will doubtless be mystified and bemused

[Will]

And happy ever after?

[Gingerlily - The Full Wild]

Once the ointment works.

[Jim]

It's not ointment!

https://www.machinemart.co.uk/p/05111...

[Gingerlily - The Full Wild]

You have to be careful which end you go for. You don't want to use the coarse when it should be the fine.

[Jim]

I have always avoided being coarse

[Gingerlily - The Full Wild]

You are a fine gentleman.

[Jim]

so long as nobody rubs me up the wrong way

[Will]

Huh, Coke is much better as a lubricating agent for stuck mechanisms,

[Jim]

Probably more corrosive as well :-)

[Will]

can't be as corrosive as a well time inference though

[Jim]

As cutting as a compliment from the ex-wife's mother and shifts dirt faster that a journalist going through the bins of a cabinet minister

[Will]

Now if there were some way of transferring that suction power to a hoover, we'd be in the money

[Jim]

I always feel that if they had nothing to hide they have nothing to worry about ;-)

[Will]

Cabinet Ministers, journalists, or ex wife's mothers???

[Jim]

All of them :-)

[Jim]

A poet always entertains!

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[Gingerlily - The Full Wild]

That was certainly entertaining. I find it hard to imagine Tallis so wet and sorry for himself though.

[Gingerlily - The Full Wild]

Oh, and by the way, my brother tells me he will be staying in Barrow for a few days soon. He mentioned something about Piel Island. I've never heard of it.

[Jim]

Piel is just off the coast, has a pub, a ferry and a couple of houses and a castle. It's an integral part of the borough. You can walk to it from Walney at low tide, but you cannot walk from Roa Island because the channel runs between them.

What's he doing up here?

[Gingerlily - The Full Wild]

Holidaying. With his camera. He seems to have plans to visit everywhere in the UK . The Faroe Islands are next after Barrow.

[Jim]

I've meant to do the Faroes, but we aren't exactly close. :-)

[Gingerlily - The Full Wild]

Jim wrote: "I've meant to do the Faroes, but we aren't exactly close. :-)"

They aren't that easy to get to - only one tour goes there. Not a high volume tourist destination. Which is probably a good reason to go there :)

[Jim]

I was intending to go there in the 1980s, there was one boat that ran constant trips from Faroe to Norway, Denmark, Scotland, and Iceland, calling at Faroe between each trip. Unfortunately I never got the trip made and I don't think it runs any more

[Gingerlily - The Full Wild]

Well there are ways...

http://www.visitfaroeislands.com/en/g...

[Jim]

don't tempt me :-(

I even bought the maps, my planning was at that stage!

[Gingerlily - The Full Wild]

Wow - pity you never made it. They look spectacular from that site.

They have sheep there - you could say it was a working trip...

[Rosemary (grooving with the Picts)]

Ooh, flights from Edinburgh in the summer

[Patti (baconater)]

Rosemary (aiming to misbehave) wrote: "Ooh, flights from Edinburgh in the summer"

On both days?

[Rosemary (grooving with the Picts)]

I think you're confusing the east coast of Scotland with the west ;)
It was quite summery here today (after the frost melted)

[Jim]

And again I have been asked to review a book, thus and so I present my findings

https://tallissteelyard.wordpress.com...

[Will]

Bought it.

[Jim]

Tallis Steelyard book reviewing services are available for all writers who feel that they're inevitably doomed to failure whatever they do

[Jim]

Will wrote: "Bought it."

Hope you enjoy it Will

[Will]

Jim wrote: "Tallis Steelyard book reviewing services are available for all writers who feel that they're inevitably doomed to failure whatever they do"

Doomed, doomed, we're all doomed....

[Jim]

There are other things that Tallis has dabbled in

http://scvincent.com/2016/03/01/furth...

Also for Patti, both parts of a story

Literally Critical

http://suddenlytheyalldied.com/2016/0...

http://suddenlytheyalldied.com/2016/0...

[Gingerlily - The Full Wild]

Or was that 'domed'?

[Jim]

Also coming up in three separate episodes which can be read individually with unalloyed pleasure

http://scvincent.com/2016/03/01/furth...

[Jim]

Another tale from my youth

https://tallissteelyard.wordpress.com...

[Jim]

The second episode, discussing how to deal with ladies of a certain age, is now up on Sue Vincent's blog

http://scvincent.com/2016/03/08/a-fur...

[Jim]

and the third and final episode on Sue Vincent's blog

http://scvincent.com/2016/03/15/24429/

[Jim]

And the dangers of fine dining

https://tallissteelyard.wordpress.com...

[Gingerlily - The Full Wild]

Yep - cooks and chefs are all batshit crazy!