What a lovely idea! It's a carping criticism to point out that strictly, your first line is short of a syllable. But the technical details of the repair are intriguing, Here in UK we haven't had threepenny pieces (threepenny bits, they were called, 12 sided) since . . well, we decimalised finally in 1971. Memory isn't infallible, but I think suspender belts were well on the way out by then also. But perleease . . exactly how did the repairwork , , er . . er . . work?
The 575 format for haiku is considered to be clumsy by the Japanese.We have a whiz kid haiku expert on RWP and I tend to agree with him because he writes good haiku.You can have an assortment of syllables.It is not rigid.
I don't know you well enough yet to discuss the finer intricacies of undergarments Thankyou for commenting anyway.It seems that threepences and suspender belts aren't drawing a huge response.Oh and some local info for you. Bloomers here are known as passion killers More effective than a chastity belt!
What a lovely idea! It's a carping criticism to point out that strictly, your first line is short of a syllable. But the technical details of the repair are intriguing, Here in UK we haven't had threepenny pieces (threepenny bits, they were called, 12 sided) since . . well, we decimalised finally in 1971. Memory isn't infallible, but I think suspender belts were well on the way out by then also. But perleease . . exactly how did the repairwork , , er . . er . . work?
ReplyDeleteThe 575 format for haiku is considered to be clumsy by the Japanese.We have a whiz kid haiku expert on RWP and I tend to agree with him because he writes good haiku.You can have an assortment of syllables.It is not rigid.
ReplyDeleteI don't know you well enough yet to discuss the finer intricacies of undergarments Thankyou
for commenting anyway.It seems that threepences and suspender belts aren't drawing a huge response.Oh and some local info for you.
Bloomers here are known as passion killers
More effective than a chastity belt!