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Title: In which The Boy gets published!
Post by: Nick on September 03, 2011, 02:40:00 PM
Mrs NIck informs me that the Boy has won some sort of National Poetry competition  eeek:  It is being published in a collection in time for Christmas  eeek:
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Post by: apc2010 on September 03, 2011, 02:46:54 PM
 :thumbsup:
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Post by: Just One More on September 03, 2011, 05:00:36 PM
The boy's going far. His FIRST publication  :thumbsup:
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Post by: Pastis on September 03, 2011, 05:10:24 PM
Oh well done him!  :thumbsup:

Game on for you then ...  ;)
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Post by: Nick on September 03, 2011, 05:10:42 PM
QUite predictably Mrs Nick has NOT sent me a copy of this poem  evil:
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Post by: Snoopy on September 03, 2011, 05:41:09 PM
Equally predicable is that the "prize" is that his poem will be published in a book of poems featuring all the "winners" from schools in the area and all the parents will be coerced into buying a copy...... the schools getting a rake-off.

Sorry but I have that tee-shirt. noooo:
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Post by: Snoopy on September 03, 2011, 05:43:07 PM
Oh ...... And I have the book to prove it.
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Post by: Nick on September 03, 2011, 05:49:07 PM
You are right

http://www.mumsnet.com/Talk/education/1163112-Really-cross-with-school-Young-Writers/AllOnOnePage (http://www.mumsnet.com/Talk/education/1163112-Really-cross-with-school-Young-Writers/AllOnOnePage)

Mrs Nick has been duped and I followed her tracks. What utter cvnts
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Post by: Snoopy on September 03, 2011, 05:57:36 PM
They caught us out when the THW was in year 5.

ISBN 1-84460-056-4 Edited by Simon Harwin
Published by Young Writers, Remus House, Coltsfoot Drive, Peterborough PE2 9JX

Book cost £15.99 but how the fvck do you say no to a proud 9 year old who is being praiised by the Head Teacher and told her poem will be published in a "Real Book" because it was so good?
Title: Re: In which The Boy gets published!
Post by: Nick on September 03, 2011, 06:00:33 PM
I will maintain praise but plan to call the skool on MOnday for some bollocking type stuff
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Post by: Snoopy on September 03, 2011, 06:03:43 PM
Exactly what we did.

The THW has only recently worked out that it was a con.


Oh and they wrote to us saying they had "reserved 5 copies so that the 'Nains and Taids' could have copies" each.
Nains and Taids are Grandmas and Grandpas in Welsh.

I told them to fvck off and only bought one copy for the child's sake .... Meanwhile we kept quiet and lavished praise.
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Post by: Uncle Mort on September 03, 2011, 08:56:51 PM
Also been there, done that.
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Post by: Nick on September 03, 2011, 08:59:04 PM
I told Mrs NIck earlier. She was not pleased  scared2:
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Post by: Miss Demeanour on September 03, 2011, 09:03:04 PM
With you or with the school ?
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Post by: Nick on September 03, 2011, 09:04:26 PM
With the skool, and also with me for telling her  noooo:
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Post by: Barman on September 04, 2011, 07:09:38 AM
I won a REAL poetry competition once...  whistle:
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Post by: Nick on September 04, 2011, 07:12:08 AM
 Whatevah:
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Post by: Barman on September 04, 2011, 07:12:40 AM
Whatevah:

It was in 1973 like... when I was thirteen...  cloud9:
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Post by: Miss Demeanour on September 04, 2011, 07:18:36 AM
Oh yeah  rubschin:

There once was a fella called Barman
Who was weirdly preoccupied by self harmin
His body's been  mashed
His head has been smashed
Indeed his  similarity to Nick is alarmin


Title: Re: In which The Boy gets published!
Post by: Barman on September 04, 2011, 07:58:55 AM
Oh yeah  rubschin:

There once was a fella called Barman
Who was weirdly preoccupied by self harmin
His body's been  mashed
His head has been smashed
Indeed his  similarity to Nick is alarmin

Nope...  ::)

It had to contain the sentence "Plant a tree in seventy-three"....  whistle:
Title: Re: In which The Boy gets published!
Post by: Nick on September 04, 2011, 08:02:53 AM
So you can fall out if it in 2011?
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Post by: Barman on September 04, 2011, 08:03:29 AM
So you can fall out if it in 2011?

happy001