Yes, wasn't it lovely?

😍Yes, it's lovely!

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Ah, Paul, how nice of you. I've been absent of late because of intensive summer school teaching, but I should be around a bit more now. In fact I'm just enjoying your @inksweatandtears.co.uk poem! More on that shortly 🤩

Wonderful! It's true that plugging away with these things can pay dividends in the most satisfactory of ways. Well done!

It's a pretty weird assumption that an academic environment precludes encountering non-poetic stimuli or points of reference. I mean, few academics ACTUALLY live in an ivory tower - they have families & participate variously in life, while meeting a lot of interesting (sometimes eccentric) people.

I can see their point!

Sounds like a good idea to me, Mark. I know a couple of (more elderly than you!) people who have healed long-term leg ulcers using honey. Good luck! x

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I don't know whether to laugh or cry at that! 💜

Can’t make it this time I’m afraid.