Shameless Self Promotion ~ but hey?:

shiney · Post: # 4806Post **shiney** » Mon Jul 04, 2005 4:32 pm

OK everyone,

Please may I have your votes as I am having my fifteen minutes of fame. (for a week)

Can you go and vote for me, even if you don't like my stuff?!!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/newtalent/showcase/index.shtml

hay331 · Post: # 4809Post **hay331** » Mon Jul 04, 2005 5:59 pm

Voting done, do you want to know how many I gave you?

shiney · Post: # 4810Post **shiney** » Mon Jul 04, 2005 6:01 pm

As many as you think right! But I am curious.

My stuff isn't everyone's cuppa tea, but the man from the Beeb said that it stuck out from the rest of the poetry he sees. That's enough to make me a happy gal!

hay331 · Post: # 4811Post **hay331** » Mon Jul 04, 2005 6:08 pm

I gave you the full whack because it is funny but also really describes mine (too ashamed to even hang it out now

)

shiney · Post: # 4812Post **shiney** » Mon Jul 04, 2005 6:12 pm

Great, I know that some people know where I am coming from! THANKS.

ina · Post: # 4813Post **ina** » Mon Jul 04, 2005 7:12 pm

Congratulations, Shiney - I think you speak from (almost) every woman's heart!

Certainly from mine!!!

Ina

shiney · Post: # 4814Post **shiney** » Mon Jul 04, 2005 7:49 pm

Thanks Ina, Oh I do know about dodgy underwear etc!

Did you read the other 2 poems on the site?

greenbean · Post: # 4816Post **greenbean** » Mon Jul 04, 2005 8:30 pm

Well done Shiney, you should be very chuffed with yourself. Clap, clap.

Yes, we all identify with the grey but comfy old bra. I sense a new Pam Ayres in the making, only better looking! (no disrespect to Pam, bless her). Good luck with the book rights.
Do you like Sylvia Plath? Should perhaps shift to another forum here..

ina · Post: # 4824Post **ina** » Mon Jul 04, 2005 9:27 pm

I hadn't read your other poems earlier on, as I was supposed to DO SOME WORK for goodness' sake... (I still am!) How do you get the ideas? Are you an Elvis fan?

I really like the one on all nighters... Even without kids in the house it's just not fun any more. Gosh, I feel terribly old if I even stay out until midnight... Funny enough, working half the night (or just mucking about at the computer

) does not seem to be quite so tiring.

And now I must have another look at those b****y figures!

Ina

Wombat · Post: # 4825Post **Wombat** » Mon Jul 04, 2005 9:39 pm

Onyer Shiney,

I voted too! Well done................

I gotta admit, I have trouble identifying with a grey but comfy bra!

Nev

Millymollymandy · Tue Jul 05, 2005 5:50 am

Great poems Shiney - yes I have a couple of those bras lurking.....

I'm not much into poetry but your poems are understandable! Well done.

shiney · Post: # 4829Post **shiney** » Tue Jul 05, 2005 6:33 am

Thank you all!

Ina, I am not an Elvis fan. The idea came from just talking about his rather bad eating habit with a friend. And so it came to pass...!

Nev, you should really try out a bra sometime. Go liberate yourself. I will tell no one.

MMM, I am pleased you have a few of those old favourites in the drawer.

Greanbean, thanks for your comments ~ I have a Pam Ayres hairdo this morning. Must have slept heavy!

Millymollymandy · Thu Jul 28, 2005 6:31 am

Hey, you dark horse! I've come across some more of your poems on French Entree in Tracey's Downshifting section. I wouldn't have known it was you had you not blatantly self-publicised yourself here! Yet more great poems.

(I go on the FE Brittany forum, that's how I found myself 'wandering' around in there).

shiney · Post: # 5387Post **shiney** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 6:37 am

Thanks MMM,

My 15 mins of fame are over now on the Beeb but I am in the archive section still. I rated 3 stars which is OK. Poetry is not everyone's favourite and the sort I write only appeals to some folks as I don't write about misty hollows and lost loves!

FE is a good site for people needing information about moving to France, it's packed with good advice and peoples experiences of living there.