Seil poem (#48)

[longshanks]

A wee lassie from Seil
Let a lad have a feel.
He paid her a pound
And rummaged around
Until he found her creel.

[canUsmellthat]

The last line would read better "Until he was caught by her creel"

Who's the wee lassie from Seil???

A wee lassie from Seil
Let a lad have a feel.
He paid her a pound
And rummaged around
Until he was caught by her creel

What do you think???

[longshanks]

Nice one Canny lad.
We should form a poetry circle.
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Looks like I've got to be quiet for a few weeks; received yet another yellow card this morning. If I get another before mid September I'll be banned according to a PM I got from Mr Admin so I'd better log off and revisit the forum in about six weeks. It'll be interesting to see what has happened.
Unfortunately I can't post on the Oban Times Forum either because someone else has already signed up there using the name Longshanks ! The cheek of it !
See you in six weeks.

Longshanks (well behaved by choice)

[NickB]

received yet another yellow card this morning

I'm having a mellow day , so have rescinded this warning - you are only on a single warning from July now, so I am sure you can risk coming back into the fold with more of your customary wit and wisdom.

[jimcee]

Having perused "Grey's Anatomy" from cover to cover, and even consulted the index, I can find no reference to the word "creel".
Perhaps it is a colloquial west of Scotland fisherman's term, of which we ordinary mortals have no knowledge, and can only conjecture on what this ditty might mean.

[Peter Connelly]

According to the Concise Scots Dictionary, it’s a North-East term, dating from the 19th century. It’s a figurative term for…ach, there’s someone at the door. Must go…

[jimcee]

I am indebted to the Concise Scots Dictionary for this explanation of the word "creel". It would appear therefore that there was a bit of (commercial) dalliance taking place between the two protagonists, and that this was interrupted by the signalled arrival of a third party, and that the young lass in question, responding to true highland hospitality felt obliged not to leave this stranger/interloper/friend, out in the cold, and interrupted the aforementioned dalliance to answer the door.
I hope that I have got that interpretation right.
It does seem a bit of an anticlimax (and I use that word with some reservation) to what appeared to be a slightly risque little poem - but they are a funny lot up there in the North East.

[canUsmellthat]

http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&cl ... n&ct=title


Anytime you want to find the meaning of word, go onto google and type "Define" followed by the word you wish to look up...

[shygirl78]

I've never heard creel used in that way in all my time in the north east! Well well, you learn something new every day. Don't think it's a term I will be trying out on anyone any time soon however!

[Peter Connelly]

No, it was a new one on me too.

[Peter Connelly]

On a slightly different topic, but without going on to a new thread as yet, would anyone be interested in recommening their tastes in music? Old, new, rock, clasical, whatever, as I'm always interested in listening to stuff I've not heard before? Just a thought...

[shygirl78]

Fabulous idea. And how about a recommendations forum also, for recommending anything.
Ie: Recipes, destinations, foreign/arthouse cinema or a great book/author you've discovered....

[canUsmellthat]

Surely you could do most of that on the arts forum??? Recipes, at a push, could be deemed artistic - the only one from your list what mightn't be is destinations, nay?

[shygirl78]

Very true CanU, it surely could be done on here.

P, tried out LastFm as recommended and liked it a lot. Now my laptop is on the blink at home, so I've had to revert to old fashioned method of actually playing CDs!
So, no looking up new music for me for a while

[Peter Connelly]

Actually, M, after doing a bit of looking around on t’internet for some more info and poems by Neruda, who I was unfamiliar with, I found that he had been an inspiration for Johnny Clegg, of Johnny Clegg and Juluka, who I’d completely not heard of before. Clegg’s worth checking out in himself, a very interesting guy. Musician and anthropologist, who formed a racially mixed band in apartheid South Africa. Wasn’t too popular with some people. Anyway, I downloaded couple of his/their albums, Universal Man and Work for All, which are excellent. (Synchronistically, on the same day as that I was doing this, an article on the BBC website turned up called 10 Britons That You’ve Never Heard Of [or something like that] and at number 10 was Johnny Clegg.)

Bookwise, I’ve started reading Susan Neiman’s Moral Clarity: A Guide for Grown-Up Idealists, which isn’t quite as bad as it sounds. Her basic argument is that the political left, in their stance on rights based issues, have more or less abandoned ideas like individual personal moral responsibility, which are now generally the province of the right. She’s suggesting that the left should wrestle some of these ideas back. It’s basically about the metaphysical underpinnings of different political outlooks, where these underpinnings originated, and how they affect party policies. Mainly focussing on the USA, but the knock-on effects are apparent here, too, especially at the moment with the NHS being dragged through the mud by the likes of Fox news and those opposing Obama’s health reforms. Hmm, I feel an off-topic digression coming on so I better cease and desist and go and try to translate that poem somehow.

[shygirl78]

That's great, my poem led you to some new music. I love it when random things like that happen.

When my t'internet is up and running again (I suspect this will sadly be the end of the month), I'll be able to check out your recommendations.


At the moment my reading time is taken up with reading various art books. Enjoying reading up on the Renaissance and will most probably be taking a look at Machiavellis "The Prince" soon too.

Anyway, half an hour left of this office drudgery then off to posh place for BBQ (yes in the rain)... all provided by work (free bar = free G&T)