Winter Green

[Ted Max]

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.

[brum]

Very nice.

[*Bob*]

Now what?

[PeckhamRose]

What happened to the ill child though?

[Ted Max]

What happened to the ill child though?

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I am an Independent Humanist Funeral Celebrant!

Looking for business?

[????]

Do you mean this or last Autumn?

[Ted Max]

Just Autumn, Quids.

[giggirl]

Ted Max Wrote:

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> What happened to the ill child though?

>

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> I am an Independent Humanist Funeral Celebrant!

>

>

> Looking for business?

I doubt it.

[Ted Max]

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.

[????]

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

[????]

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

[Ted Max]

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.

[Mick Mac]

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?

[Ted Max]

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!

[Mick Mac]

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.

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

It's almost over - get back to the muse, Ted.

[????]

So it's only me watching the Making of Modern Britin then?

[woofmarkthedog]

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 ?

[????]

Willling suspense of disbelief and all that Woof

[woofmarkthedog]

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 ?

[Moos]

Was Snow White a rodent then?

[*Bob*]

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.

[Brendan]

???? Wrote:

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> 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.

[????]

So Ted's a lefty pervert? Thought so. I was going to say that but didn't think it was Tom Paulin enough

[Brendan]

Is that rhyming slang for boring?