Maggie
Administrator
 Job/Hobbies: Retired, Writing, Holidays
Registration date: 2008-02-20
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 To the Poetry and Friends October Newsletter
you will all have noticed that we have hada makeover on Poetry And Friends, and hope that everyone likes the new set up.SONG REQUESTS FOR MUSIC TRACKS. We now have a music player at the top of the forum. It's a
pop up version so you need to click the link
to listen to music. There is a forum here SONG REQUESTS FOR 60s MUSICwhere you can request music. If it is available
I will add it to the player. Pop Up Chatbox We also have a pop up chatbox for anyone wishing
to chat. Just click on chat link and log in at right
hand top corner of the chat box. You should be
able to start chatting, please give it a try. **You must click log in at top right hand side of
the chat box.WORD CHALLENGES Tiggee is back running the word challenges
If you have any questions please contact her.
TIGGEE'S WORD CHALLENGESPOETRY AND FRIENDS COMPETITIONS
We have merged both the themed and freestyle
competition into one. This will reduce the
amount of judges we need each month and will
allow us to have a stand in competition manager.
Lorraine will run the competitions starting 1st
October. Sheofwolf will be stand in manager to
cover in the event others are absent.
Please see link below regarding the amount
of competition entries allowed per person.HOW MANY ENTRIES CAN I SUBMITDONATIONS  To thank those members that donated for their
second year since registration. If you have not
donated for your second year can you please donate
again as funds are really low. Donations are not
compulsory.. There is a PayPal button on the portal
Page. Donations are needed to help towards running
costs of Poetry And Friends.Address for posting Cheque Donations:
MARGARET SCOTT
POETRY AND FRIENDS
PO BOX 155
CRAMLINGTON
NE23 0ADFUNDRAISING/DONATING MEMBERS
TEAM MEMBERSCath, Kimi, Maggie, David Miller, Gypsy, Tiggee
Peanuts, Sheofwolf, Lorraine
If any member would like to join the fundraising
team contact Maggie
Donations this month included Envelopes for the calendar
and donated by Sheofwolf. Prize donated for the poetry
competition donated by Cath.
COMPETITION ENTRIES MOVED TO JUDGINGPlease Note: When poems are in judging you will have
no access to your poem until the end of the competition.
If judges comment on your poem whilst it is in judging
you could receive an email to say someone has
commented on your poem. When you click the link to
your poem from the email you will receive a message to
say that you have no access. That is because your
poem has been moved to a private forum for judges only. Poetry And Prayers ForumA special thank you to all members that registered at
Poetry And Prayers.
POETRY AND PRAYERSRegister and submission information.
All members are welcome to register. You might at
some point want to register to ask for Prayer. You do
not need to write religious poetry to become a
member. There are no rules regarding the amount of
submissions to comments. The forum will be used by
many to just ask for prayer at a time when they need it.
**Please note that all religious poems, remembrance
poems and prayers must be submitted on Poetry And
Prayers Healing Thoughts And Prayers Our thoughts go out to Annamoy who has had a family
bereavement recently
For dear Angie, who lost her partner on
the 16th October,our thoughts and prayers are with
you at this very sad time
Pr1mrose/Judi has an appointment on the 1st
October with a view to having surgery. We are thinking
of you Judi and wish you well.
David Miller is having an operation on the 11th November,
 we all wish you well for a very speedy recovery David.Poems of the MonthFear Not by Tom
SO VERY PERSONAL by Lord T.
Menbers ChoiceLost Soul by Jodie nominated by cath
POETRY OUT LOUD RECORDING YOUR POETRY OUT LOUD INSTRUCTIONS.There is a player on the portal page and you can listen to
poetry out loud. At the moment we only have two members
that have recorded poetry. If you are able to read poetry
out loud and record it, please do so and send your MP3 to
me by email at poetryforpleasure@live.com If you need
instructions to record please contact maggie.MEMBERS BLOGS Maggie has set up a forum for members blogs. Anything you write in these blogs can be uploaded to
all networks, like Twitter, Facebook, Windows Live
and many more.
If there are only a few wanting this service then they can
have a blog attached to their poetry forum here. If there
are a lot of members wanting a blog we will have to use
the blog forum.
After experimenting with the blog option it appears that
one blog can be used by all members to upload their
stuff to Twitter or whatever. So we are still experimenting.
Maggie uploaded stuff to twitter and it pulled in as many as
20 readers  and was quite surprised. Blogs are handy
to get messages to a wide audience and that is about
all really.
If you want a blog to try out you can register there.
Please see button at the top of the forum named blogs.
Here is the link to a Poetry And Friends Blog that
anyone can use. POETRY AND FRIENDS DAILY BLOG
So why not start blogging today.BLOG CHAT EVENING 8Pm -3rd NovemberIf you want to know more about blogs I will be in the
chatbox at 8pm on Tuesday 3rd November to discuss blogs,
Twitter and Myspace etc. Please let Maggie know if you
can attendCalendars The new 2010 calendars will be on sale in
October/November. Some calendars have been
posted so hopefully you will receive them this week.
Any members that have ordered calendars please pay
as soon as possible so maggie can get them posted..
There are still calendars left to purchase so please
dig in your pockets and help support Poetry & Friends.
If all calendars sell we will make a profit for the fund
of around £100.00. I would like to thank David Miller
for supplying the artwork free. Last year it cost £80.00
so it's thanks to David that we might make a little profit
from the sale of the calendars this year.
POETRY AND FRIENDS STAFF
Kimi: Poetry Manager/Administrator
Maggie: Forum Manager/Administrator
Cath: Admin/QuizmasterLorraine: Themed Poem Competition Manager Sheofwolf: Stand In Competition ManagerAdele: Short Story Competition Manager
David Miller: Calendar Competition Manager
Freedom: Forum Manager Poetry And PrayersTiggee: Word Challenges
(Qualifications:Teacher) Poetry Critique is unavailable
at the moment.
Suzie: Forum Manager/Various Forum
Ioloa: Short Story Forum Manager
Korculablue: Spell checking (Qualifications:
Retired Teacher)
to all our Poetry Friends family, Maggie and staff for all the hard work in making the forum so successfulSheofwolf Forum Newswriter
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