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Good one  easybeat with the start of Spring your guitar has come into full bloom and is sounding good with nice and clear vocals.     

Cheers Jan they are interesting looking little creatures and I like the way their faces have a cartoon look.

EB that gave me a chuckle. Today the first day of Spring good to see all those cute newborn lambs running around the paddocks.  Here is a song we had to sing when I was at primary school about sheep shearing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plCTGKrhByk

Merci Piri, greetings and best wishes to you and your family  from my human and wild avian family at my domicile. Thankfully at home we don’t have to put up with pesky seagulls like you have to and also those people on the waterfront close to my part of the world also have to contend with. My mum physically is doing ok and her broken hip has recovered well, but unfortunately mentally not very good and she now requires plenty of nursing care due to her sudden onset dementia. It was only a few months back that she was very sharp and quick witted and onto things. She now is in a care centre for the confused and bewildered. Next month she turns 102 so she has had a good run up until now.

Jim, thank you for taking time to read and comment on my words. The Tui singing around here are big part of the soundscape of this place. I remember you and Jan have both written good songs about Tui. The town where you live sounds like a place with a good community. I remember you posted a video during the lockdown of a brass band playing in your town it looked real nice.

In the unlikely event reading this line in my poem anyone wonders about the use of the word preacher, “Above the preacher on a branch a singing Tui fills my head with a beautiful vibe.”

The reason I used the word “preacher” it is a  cryptic type reference to what early European colonists called Tui, the parson bird. The Parson bird  name came about because of the Tui’s  distinctive white throat tuft which  looked to them like the collar that church ministers wore back then.. When early European arrived the non Catholics here often referred to the church priest as being their parson.

Jim you do write great songs and your performances have their own unique quality in what I call a Bob Dylan way.. You are a truly talented songwriter.     

Cheers Jan great to see you back here after your South Island adventures I hope you have managed to avoid all the recent treacherous rainy condition down south and up here in the North Island. Thankyou for taking the time to read my poem and comment I think I'm a kid at heart  Maree and I get a  kick out of watching kids films and programmes. Today a knowledgeable young ten year old told me about underwater sheep at first I thought he was kidding me but they do exist and are called leaf sheep short video attached.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAe9zTpcIdo

Zurf it was good to see and hear you doing these songs on here.     

Cheers Piri you gave me a laugh with the wet and cold miserable weather we are experiencing down here in NZ today I needed a chuckle. My humour is sick and my jokes tend to make people groan rather than laugh.  I started off talking about sheep in my poem in the hope of being a little bit funny now in a desperate attempt to get a laugh on chordie, I will throw another sheep joke into the pot. A music joke from Billy Connolly.

What is the difference between a Scottish sheep farmer and a Rolling Stone Song?

"One says,  " Hey you get off my cloud!", and the other says, ' Hey McCloud, get off my ewe., "

I love the humour Piri . The complaint I hear most about owning vehicles nowadays is the ridiculous price of fuel,

Since I became an old age pensioner I got a thing from the Government called a Goldcard. That gives me free travel on all public transport buses and trains in the weekends and outside of workers morning and afternoon rush hour. Round here public transport is plentiful and I have been enjoying it. For years I never used public transport but now I do a lot. On the bus and trains you get to hear some interesting conversations and see some of the more eccentric people in life at times.     

σε ευχαριστώ πάρα πολύ  se efcharistó pára polý thank you very much for the translation.

Cheers Piri, When I was younger I saw many a fight in bars but in recent decades bars here have become more civilized. Though out on the streets on a Friday and Saturday night there can be a bit of problem amongst  inebriated young people roaming  around the main popular city entertainment area. Out here in the area where I live we don’t have that problem.

I know of a couple who own a flash car  that has all the state of the art computerised systems. To open the doors you press a button no keys those sort of things. Husbands is a runner and what they do sometimes is drive to a spot by the sea and he gets out and runs home which is miles away. He drives them to the place where he  wants to run from gets out takes his key after a certain  amount of time the car doors lock with her in it. She sits in the passenger seat admiring the view of the sea for a while then decides its time to drive home. Reaches into her bag  only to find she has left her device that open the doors and does every else on the car at home. Try’s to open the door manually they wont open . Try’s to lower the windows using the down button they wont work either. No worries I will phone hubby she thinks  on the cellphone as he always takes that with him even when running. Opps left the phone at home with the key device also. She spends the next few hours in the car trapped trying to attract the attention of passers by and  also in need of a toilet. Finally she attracts the attention of someone with a phone who rings her husband. Husband sees the number calling on his phone he doesn’t know that number  so doesn’t bother answering the phone. The passer by then calls a tow truck company who tell her that they have to call the police first before they would come to the  car.  Police and tow truck come to the car, towie breaks into car under police supervision and let her out.  I wont mention about her bowel need to let go during this time but apparently the tow company wasn’t cheap and also the other costs around them breaking into their car afterwards.