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Entry: McCarthy's Bushlot - A18672672
Author: langsandy - U4056622

This eulogy for the son of an Irishman whose father, surviving the Famine, made
another, more fruitful life for his family in a land across the sea

This is amazingly lovely. Thank for writing this.

And thank you for the description of the forest.

Thankyou -
your response is much appreciated
have a good New Year - Langsandy

A beautiful piece, thank you also,
Waz

Hi LLwaz - good to hear from you - writing
has always been an escape from the 'real' world
for me and when fully immersed, it gives me a
great feeling of being removed to a place remote
and safe from what ails my senses - thats why I
write stuff like this - the human element - if
there is one - always made welcome like old
Charlie McCarthy whose woods they were - the
woods of Glen Derry in springtime when a cuckoo
is calling, the faint tinkle of a high allt on
the hillside rising and falling on a zephyr or
my head full of wonder when I first read Tarka
the Otter - seeing with the refined vision of a
highly cognitive inner eye when I look past the
crowd and my common lot to such things, has made
my life rich - [now I begin to ramble - time for
the butchers to cut me down] - happy 2007 to you
and yours [and your friend - where has he been -
of training with the USNavy Seals] - hi to him
too - langsandy

I love your pieces, Langsandy and this one has the added poignancy that comes from combining the memory of a man with the account of natural wonders.

You're passing on that richness you see to us here. I do appreciate it - I wish all the best 2007 can bring to you too.

Pin's around, but I wouldn't call this F4795209?thread=3786932 training with the Navy Seals exactly... I passed on your 'hi'.

By the way, on a New Year's Day walk around the local moss/mere/lake, we found Greylags in among the Canada Geese. I'd thought on Boxing Day there was a different sound there but it was too dark to see that time and with the squeaks from the coots and the racket from the jackdaws it was hard to tell. I haven't seen them there before so that was good and remembering your 'Greylags', it was better.
Waz

Hello there, minorVogonpoet -
I love a guy who gives of himself,
is eager to talk, who is looking
for nothing but friendly common
ground and a chance to exchange
information on things he knows
about, the farmer, the miner, the
deckhand - the professor and the
poet - thanks for the kind words
- cheers - langsandy

dr LLwaz - great to hear from you and thanks
for your comments - I'd like to take that walk
on the old railway line and cross the bridge
for pedestrians over Holburn Street - seems it
follows the old track as far as Banchory I
think - Aberdeen has always been a walkabout
town so its great to see improvements such as
that - ever been in the Prince of Wales for a
pint - I think its still there, flagged floors
and all - off Union Street E of St Nicholas
- ever been rowed up the Dee - found a fresh
salmon with an otter's bite out of its shoulder
- they do that when they are running, leaving
them on the rocks below Graiginches - cheers

PS - last time I saw a seal in Aberdeen harbour
I reckoned it knew about the four Orcas I saw
about four miles offshore - enought to dis-
courage any pinniped - non

Hello again langsandy. Here to offer congratulations again. The UnderGuiders want to give McCarthy's Bushlot a Front Page spot and a place in the <./>underguide</.>. Polishers, etc, you know all about.

Thank you for sharing this, reading it is like being there.

Congratulations, langsandy.

Poor metaphor - this is like counting your sheep
after a while and finding you have an extra one - if
I had not gone alooking, I would not have found it -
the good news I mean - thanks for the honor -
langsandy