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Badeye those two are brilliant together. I wonder what  lyrics  Stevie Ray Vaughan would sing if he was in that place and with us today, now we have Cell Phones.     

Cheers Eb and TF for your commments. The poem is about PERSISTENCE. Nothing in this world can take the place of good old persistence. Talent won't. Nothing's more common than unsuccessful people  with talent. Genius won't. Unrecognized genius is practically a cliche. Education won't. Why the world is full of educated fools. Persistence and determination alone are all powerful. I wrote it because this teacher is moving to a challenge he thinks he is not up to. His wife has descided she needed a challenge and has got a job away from here  in this town that will test her skills. She told him she is going and he can join her or stay here. He has taken this job at a school that finds it hard to atttract teachers only because of her and this is my way of saying enjoy the challenge. He has a degree in Maths and another in Music plus a Teaching degree I think the experience  could make him. He could end up like one of those teachers they make films about. His reaction to my poem was "thanks your words are great in theory but not in reality". He has been  pushed out of his comfort zone.     

Cheers badeye Happy New Year.     

Neo enjoyed your music this year all the best to you and your family for 2019.

Bill that is a beautiful song first time I have heard it. Thank  you for sharing it. I must check that movie out
Happy New Year and Love to you and Dondra.     

Cheers TF and TIG  I am glad you enjoyed the videos. NZ parliament is more of a place where we dont have many roaring lions just pussy cats purring. We are most probably fortunate that we dont have many contentious issues like other countries have.  Things are not perfect but I guess we live in a resonable stable place. Our two main parties have very little points of differance once they get  in power.  My party called NZ First  a small party helps to  keep them in line. Many dont like them as the see it as the tail wagging the dog .

Excellent badeye your Blues post are always something I enjoy. All the best for the New Year.
Pete     

Excellent Beamer those words could be the opening lines for a good novel.     

Great choice TF  I have in last few weeks been listening to to my  old  Emerson, Lake & Palmer album Brain Salad Surgery. My 98 year old mother loves the song Jerusalem on it. Most of  my old record collection I have passed onto my younger family members but I have hung on to that one and a few others. I will never be politically correct and not talk about Christmas. Here in NZ it  is celebrated by people I know and mix with of of all religous and none religous  persuasion.     

Cheers Phill I have enjoyed your  writing on chordie and always look forward to your comments. I also enjoy hearing your music. I use to belong to a club where we had a tradition every year at our Christmas party of leaving a chair empty at a table with a full setting of  cutlery and a wine glass with a Rememberance Rose in it. The plate placemat would have the name of those who had  past in that past year. . Every member would be given a poppy to place at that table as way of remembering those who had past on.

Jim, though I love Christmas I must admit there is always a sense of  relief when it is over for another year. This time of year is summer end of school term four so our school kids get a big long summer holiday. The New Zealand school year is divided into 4 terms for state and state integrated schools. There is a 2 week break between each of the first 3 terms and a summer holiday at the end of Term 4 of about 6 weeks.

EB cheers has been a while I look forward to catching up with you in the New Year at our Sunday sesh.  I might even pop into The Butcher and Brewer out at Petone where Robert has been doing a bit of work.

TF,  the differant time zones can be confusing. I have extended family all around the world and remembering the time differance gets a bit confusing for some of my older relatives.  Our Prime Ministers in New Zealand over  recent years have had a good sense of humour. I will attach two clips showing our latest Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern revealing her funny side. The first one  has a reply to a Flight Of The Concords question. The second one came about due to the fact that often New Zealand gets left of promotion  maps for world events held in other countries.       

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYsZv9JXmio&t=128s

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

Hope you had a good Christmas Mojo.