Ted Max Posted November 11, 2009 Share Posted November 11, 2009 A small ball, bought in the autumn as a present for an ill child and swiftly lost under a pile of leaves, is rediscovered. A memory of leaf-veins patinates its thin, taut skin. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/8588-winter-green/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
brum Posted November 11, 2009 Share Posted November 11, 2009 Very nice. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/8588-winter-green/#findComment-262162 Share on other sites More sharing options...
*Bob* Posted November 11, 2009 Share Posted November 11, 2009 Now what? Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/8588-winter-green/#findComment-262163 Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeckhamRose Posted November 11, 2009 Share Posted November 11, 2009 What happened to the ill child though? Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/8588-winter-green/#findComment-262166 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ted Max Posted November 11, 2009 Author Share Posted November 11, 2009 What happened to the ill child though?--------------------I am an Independent Humanist Funeral Celebrant! Looking for business? Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/8588-winter-green/#findComment-262167 Share on other sites More sharing options...
???? Posted November 11, 2009 Share Posted November 11, 2009 Do you mean this or last Autumn? Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/8588-winter-green/#findComment-262212 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ted Max Posted November 11, 2009 Author Share Posted November 11, 2009 Just Autumn, Quids. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/8588-winter-green/#findComment-262221 Share on other sites More sharing options...
giggirl Posted November 11, 2009 Share Posted November 11, 2009 Ted Max Wrote:-------------------------------------------------------> What happened to the ill child though?> > --------------------> I am an Independent Humanist Funeral Celebrant! > > > Looking for business?I doubt it. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/8588-winter-green/#findComment-262227 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ted Max Posted November 11, 2009 Author Share Posted November 11, 2009 Me too. A weak joke based on the juxtaposition of her sig and her post. Am I really likely to be implying that PR is chasing up funeral business on the EDF? Just to add, there is no actual child, ill or otherwise, ball, winter or even autumn, for that matter. There is a Green, though. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/8588-winter-green/#findComment-262230 Share on other sites More sharing options...
???? Posted November 11, 2009 Share Posted November 11, 2009 Just Three more questions (bet Joyce had none of this shite before the internet eh Ted) 1) If it's autumn why winter 2) If there looking for business and there's a green is it Goose Green?...I've forgotten the other one Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/8588-winter-green/#findComment-262232 Share on other sites More sharing options...
???? Posted November 11, 2009 Share Posted November 11, 2009 Just Three more questions (bet Joyce had none of this shite before the internet eh Ted) 1) If it's autumn why winter 2) If there looking for business and there's a green is it Goose Green?...I've forgotten the other one Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/8588-winter-green/#findComment-262233 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ted Max Posted November 11, 2009 Author Share Posted November 11, 2009 The ball was lost in autumn and then found in winter. It is "now" winter. Killed at birth: a series of cloyingly sentimental episodes based around a theme of Winter on Goose Green. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/8588-winter-green/#findComment-262240 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mick Mac Posted November 11, 2009 Share Posted November 11, 2009 Its a very serious forum now Ted. You can't just go posting any old fiction and expect to get away with it now, eh? Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/8588-winter-green/#findComment-262241 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ted Max Posted November 11, 2009 Author Share Posted November 11, 2009 I don't know about that, but I do know it's time for Spooks. Ruth! Roz! Harry! Lucas! The little blonde one with no good lines! Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/8588-winter-green/#findComment-262242 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mick Mac Posted November 11, 2009 Share Posted November 11, 2009 Ah Spooks - Have had a look - I have remembered why I stopped watching it - could not get my head around the yummy mummy from Cold Feet becoming an espionage agent. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/8588-winter-green/#findComment-262247 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peckhamgatecrasher Posted November 11, 2009 Share Posted November 11, 2009 It's almost over - get back to the muse, Ted. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/8588-winter-green/#findComment-262263 Share on other sites More sharing options...
???? Posted November 11, 2009 Share Posted November 11, 2009 So it's only me watching the Making of Modern Britin then? Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/8588-winter-green/#findComment-262281 Share on other sites More sharing options...
woofmarkthedog Posted November 11, 2009 Share Posted November 11, 2009 Due to the climatic & atmospheric pressures related to the seasonal change, would not the ball that was taught in Summer now have slackened somewhat, no ? Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/8588-winter-green/#findComment-262318 Share on other sites More sharing options...
???? Posted November 11, 2009 Share Posted November 11, 2009 Willling suspense of disbelief and all that Woof Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/8588-winter-green/#findComment-262323 Share on other sites More sharing options...
woofmarkthedog Posted November 11, 2009 Share Posted November 11, 2009 Oh, like "Snow White" slept for a hundred years yes , so why were her unused teeth not grown down past her chin ? & 100 years surely not, but I see your point.As you were Ted .....and ? Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/8588-winter-green/#findComment-262334 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moos Posted November 12, 2009 Share Posted November 12, 2009 Was Snow White a rodent then? Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/8588-winter-green/#findComment-262424 Share on other sites More sharing options...
*Bob* Posted November 12, 2009 Share Posted November 12, 2009 A golden leaf, teased by Puma tread. Soft now! The hand of fate,Slides, reveals, the turd beneath.Kitchen sink, running tap and knife awaits. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/8588-winter-green/#findComment-262427 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brendan Posted November 12, 2009 Share Posted November 12, 2009 ???? Wrote:-------------------------------------------------------> Just Three more questions (bet Joyce had none of> this shite before the internet eh Ted)> > 1) If it's autumn why winter Let me explain here Mr. U+00A3 esquire. Green also means, new, inexperience and un-ripened. Autumn is therefore ?green winter? or ?winter green? if you insist on being all poetic and shit. It has all the potential to be winter but hasn?t yet dipped its wick as it were. The metaphor then stretches further into the realms of horticulture with the ball symbolising the seed of the season?s decline which is planted in autumn and ripens to fruition into winter.Here the writer is cleverly juxtaposing the common imagery of life blossoming in the summer with his intentional reversal of the concept. He then goes on to mention ?patinates? (which I think were Victorian, ladies under things) and ?taught skin? which just goes to show that like most authors he is using his art as a thinly veiled indulgence of his own perversions and is probably also a communist. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/8588-winter-green/#findComment-262430 Share on other sites More sharing options...
???? Posted November 12, 2009 Share Posted November 12, 2009 So Ted's a lefty pervert? Thought so. I was going to say that but didn't think it was Tom Paulin enough Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/8588-winter-green/#findComment-262438 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brendan Posted November 12, 2009 Share Posted November 12, 2009 Is that rhyming slang for boring? Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/8588-winter-green/#findComment-262439 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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