ABPA - Australian Bush Poets Association

A SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT


What a clever little thing
is that entertaining ring,
which can play a merry tune
at a time not opportune;

making such a rude disruption
with a jangling irksome ruction

when we want to hear the shows.


So we thought you'd like to know
that next time you get a message
that disrupts our set assemblage;

we've engaged a brawny bruiser
who will shove it up your nose.

Funny Neville. I like the arrangement and the abruptness of "when we want to hear the shows"

Do you need a punching bag today?

Heather

Thanks for the reply Heather.

Inspired by my trip to Tamworth ( and other occasions ) when at EVERY event someone had a mobile phone go off, interrupting proceedings. It didn't matter if the compere asked people at the start to make sure phones were off. IT STILL happened. grrrr.

That's human nature Neville. Everyone makes mistakes at times......

Heather

You're right Heather. But just after being reminded..I mean to say.

G'day Neville and Heather,

I preface this by saying I rarely get any calls on my mobile.

Once I was just about to go on stage at the national when my mobile went off. I was so embarrassed. It was Optus letting me know my credit was just about to run out.
Now I put my phone on vibrate and silent and in my chest pocket at the start of a festival and don't change it til I get home. If it happens to go off, I go outside and well away from the venue before I even look to see who it was. Thank heavens for the 'call back' button.

When this happened while I was performing in the Longyard...I stopped my poem...& said ''Righteo! Who is it? Who's going off?'' The panic stricken offender immediately exposed himself by frantically rummaging around in his trousers...(BOB! behave!)...pocket, for his jangling mobile. I said, ''Aha! It's you isn't it, eh, eh?'' & proceeded to construct the funniest 'audience participation' set I can remember. I wish it could be duplicated...or could have been caught on video. It was a pearler...& the punters loved it....well, all but one of them......

ps. My arm is in a sling but my fingers still work!... & I've engineered a way to prop my elbow up by the keyboard....for a while anyway.

Oh the disaster of challenging the Glenny.