What's the word on the street, EEjit?

The word on the street ,Earthlings is frangipani. Don't ask me why, it's just one of those things.

Elsewhere in the world this Friday's guest to the Castle, Nuala Ní Chonchúir, has been shortlisted for the Willesden Herald Short Story Competition http://womenrulewriter.blogspot.com/

Everything she touches turns to gold so I'll be showing her my overdraft and credit card(shredded card?) when she comes to The Castle.

There's a masssive party happening here on Friday. (See previous posts for details)

First Nuala will be tormented by 3 potentially life altering questions then we will be tearing (or tootling, as is yer want) across the beawthifull Wickler countryside in our RED CARS for a picnic up in the wilds. It'll be all cucumber sandwiches, crack cocaine, poteen and Werther's Originals.

We will have entertainmet, we want entertainment, we want you, YES YOU! to post a poem without ,or preferably with ,the words RED CAR in it.We want you tube shenanigans of yourself reading yer poem or singing a song,it's hooley time get up and shake yer groove thang, clack your maracas, get up by getting down.

Turn up in a RED CAR as exotic or prosaic as you like. I'll be burning rubber(I've a strange prediliction for singed elastic)

in my hot red red hot McLaren F1.

Bring any guest you like.Liz is bringing Johnny Depp, Weaver is bringing Christy Moore(no better man, we'll be expecting a song or two from him)

Star guest Nuala will be looking cool in her Mini Cooper despite bringing Cliff Richard. (See warning sign at top of post)

If you don't want to drive, dee nae wurry.....

Einstein and his double, Zweistein, have fixed the Poetry Bus and we want you aboard regardless of age ,sex, size ,orientation, or colour.Even Kilkenny hurlers/ Liverpool fans are welcome. The bus is back and will be travelling each and every Monday from now on in, except next Monday cos we're going to Aldi. So it's actually travelling this Friday instead. We want yer poems now!

Niamh (Espresso to go) Bagnell, radio star/writer/performance poet,has hers up already, so come on! http://variouscushions.blogspot.com/2010/01/i-cant-be-waiting-till-friday-monday.html

Dom (Rip it up)Rivron's roaring and rearing to go!
http://dominicrivron.blogspot.com/2010/01/red-car.html

Undeluded ( all singing) Argent http://argent-delusionsofadequacy.blogspot.com/2010/01/get-in-da-red-car-and-follow-that-bus.html

Peter(Looking out for the Gards) Goulding http://stammeringpoet.blogspot.com/2010/01/red-car.html

Swiss( There's nothing cheesy about me) er, Swiss http://travelsinthefloatingelvis.blogspot.com/2010/01/tfes-red-bus-poem.html

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Shh! It's a secret) Karen

http://keepingsecrets-karen.blogspot.com/2010/01/red-car.html

Kat (I got the cream) Mortensen AKA Poetikat

http://hyggedigter.blogspot.com/2010/01/driving-out-to-noolys-hooley-at-eejits.html

Willow's got the bug

http://willowmanor.blogspot.com/2010/01/red-car.html

(Where old cars go to die) Junkthief

http://junkthief.blogspot.com/2010/01/some-notch-along-curled-road.html

Jeanne (Chirpy Jeep Jeep) Lakatos

http://revolutionaryrevelry.blogspot.com/2010/01/red-car-poetry.html

(Blast from the past )Pure Fiction

http://fictionalfictionwriter.blogspot.com/2010/01/red-car.html

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Where would we be without) Rachel Fox

Not only a written poem

http://crowd-pleasers.blogspot.com/2010/01/anti-phallic.html

but also our first entertainer! Yippeee!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25PnlL5_EQI

But from now on there will be no stopping THe POetry Bus.Poems every Monday and a printed magazine of the best poems 3 possibly 4 times per year. You KNOW it makes sense VOTE BUS!

In the meantime, see what all the fuss is about

Portrait of the Artist with a Red Car it's a great book buy it here.... http://www.templarpoetry.co.uk/publications/protrait-of-the-artist-with-a-red-car.html

Or win a signed copy (two to be won) posted to anywhere on the globe with a letterbox, by posting a comment in me comments box for to be entered into a giant Tombola lottery draw type thing.Try and put RED CAR in yer comment but I know a lot of ye can't manage that, so I'll figures out if ye want in.

Live long and prosper, people of Earth.