Mandy Tams The Golden Girl's Blog
I don't want you to get bored looking at me and hubby in the garden last year, so I'll show it to you in the daylight, my refuge where the foxes wander.
There is not much that many of you don't know about me now, I enjoy a good laugh and if I can find one I will. If I can make someone smile my day is complete. I enjoy people and people watching but do not suffer fools easily, mainly because my dad told me I would be one when I grew up, and I think he may have been right.
I was born in Yorkshire and the extended family are still there but we now live in Staffordshire, we being my husband of 33 years and our two sons, well one of them has left and lives with his partner a girl whom we love dearly.
My latest hobby is writing and from this I am learning a great deal from and about people, that write.
My latest, latest thing to keep me occupied is making myself a nice new fleece top, it's getting cold and my old one; which must be 12 years old has had to be sent to a better place and I miss it already RIP>
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Most Recent Blog Post
A "Kinder Gentler System" For Haiku Lovers
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Blog Posted:12/2/2012 3:39:00 AM
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A "Kinder, Gentler System"
Sony has announced its own computer operating system now available on its hot new notebook PC. Instead of producing the cryptic error message characteristic of Microsoft's operating systems, Sony's president said, "We intend to capture the high ground by putting a human, Japanese face on what has been-until now-an operating system that reflects Western cultural hegemony. For example, we have replaced the impersonal and unhelpful Microsoft error messages with our own Japanese haiku poetry." The chairman went on to give examples of Sony's new error messages:
A file that big?
It might be very useful.
But now it is gone.
The Web site you seek
Can not be located but
Countless more exist
Chaos reigns within.
Reflect, repent, and reboot.
Order shall return.
ABORTED effort:
Close all that you have worked on.
You ask way too much.
Yesterday it worked
Today it is not working
Windows is like that.
First snow, then silence.
This thousand-dollar screen dies
so beautifully.
With searching comes loss
and the presence of absence:
"My Novel" not found.
The Tao that is seen
Is not the true Tao, until
You bring fresh toner.
Windows NT crashed.
I am the Blue Screen of Death.
No one hears your screams.
Stay the patient course
Of little worth is your ire
The network is down
Three things are certain:
Death, taxes, and lost data.
Guess which has occurred.
You step in the stream,
but the water has moved on.
This page is not here.
Out of memory.
We wish to hold the whole sky,
But we never will.
Having been erased,
The document you're seeking
Must now be retyped.
Serious error. All shortcuts have disappeared.
Screen. Mind. Both are blank.
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My Poems
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| Date Posted | Poem Title | Form | Categories |
| 5/23/2013 | ABC of Love | ABC | love, |
| 5/23/2013 | Touched By Your Flame | Sonnet | passion, |
| 5/21/2013 | Why there were no Unicorns on Noah's Ark | Couplet | animal, |
| 5/20/2013 | Little One | Verse | memory,sad, |
| 5/20/2013 | GO GIRL GO ADULTS ONLY | Rhyme | humorous, |
| 5/1/2013 | Bacchus | Haiku | wine, |
| 5/1/2013 | A Ripple In Time | Light Poetry | longing, |
| 4/30/2013 | Re Awakening | Sonnet | joy,love, |
| 4/29/2013 | Our Heart | Sonnet | emotions, |
| 4/25/2013 | Portrait In Words | Sonnet | character, |
| 4/22/2013 | Self Portrait | Verse | character, |
| 4/22/2013 | Understanding | Rhyme | missing you, |
| 4/17/2013 | The Kitchen Fitter | Free verse (vers libre) | life,me,me, |
| 4/16/2013 | haiku 3 | Haiku | nature, |
| 4/16/2013 | Love And Trust | Sonnet | love,words,love,trust, |
| 4/14/2013 | The First Time | Sonnet | love,truth, |
| 4/12/2013 | UFO | Senryu | love, |
| 4/11/2013 | Upon A Bed Of Petals | Quatrain | love,romance,love, |
| 4/10/2013 | Water Babies | Rhyme | imagination,children,worl |
| 4/10/2013 | Famous Couples | Rhyme | lost,god,eve,god, |
| 4/5/2013 | The Rescue metamorph | Rhyme | love,child,child,friend,h |
| 4/1/2013 | The Mole | Limerick | humorous, |
| 3/29/2013 | Trial and Error | Rhyme | metaphor,strength, |
| 3/27/2013 | Z is for Zaria | ABC | nature,name,tree,beauty,f |
| 3/27/2013 | The Rattle Of The Keyboard | Grook | write, |
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