Should I Be Flattered?

[sandyRoe]

I was sitting having a coffee in a cafe on the Lisburn Rd this afternoon when an old lady came over and asked did I not take a walk along Osborne Park any more. I replied that I rarely get as far as that now. She asked, You are Micheal Longley aren't you?
Apart from the fact we both have white beards I can't see much of a resemblance.

http://i.guim.co.uk/static/w-620/h--/q-95/sys-images/Books/Pix/pictures/2013/10/23/1382545865057/Michael-Longley-010.jpg

[janbee]

The pic looks a bit like Bill Bryson. Sandy, I always imagined you as a younger version of George Clooney.

[Sqad]

Is that a photograph of michael Longley or the old lady?

[sandyRoe]

The old lady hadn't quite as many whiskers.

[janbee]

lol at sqad xx

[Svejk]

Was Longley the gigolo man?

[sandyRoe]

Janbee, younger than George Clooney? I wish. Every day I'm edging closer to being a septuagenarien.
but young in heart

[janbee]

A sexygenarian Sandy xx

[Mamyalynne]

I can see what she means - you are very much alike.

[sandyRoe]

I wish I'd a 1/10 of his talent as a writer. And as the houses in Osborne Pk are worth close to a million a fraction of his money.

[sandyRoe]

Janbee, I had to take a few minutes away from the keyboard there until my blushes subsided. :-)

[Buenchico]

>>>I wish I'd a 1/10 of his talent as a writer

I'm extremely pleased that you haven't, Sandy!

Your posts here are always a model of clarity. If you wrote in the style of Michael Longley it would take me a week to fathom out the meaning of each post and even then I'd still be left wondering if I'd missed some subtle subtext ;-)

[wolf63]

Did he make his money writing poems? It never struck me as a money making talent.

[sandyRoe]

Good point Wolf63. He was a teacher for a while. But he couldn't have bought a house where he lives on their money.

[Hopkirk]

I saw Father Christmas shopping in Sainsbury's yesterday.

I know it was him, even thouigh he hadn't got the red suit on.

[Chipchopper]

Was you wearing 'Ray Ban's' ?

[Psybbo]

Sandy, if you look like that, I'll meet you in Osborne Park tomorrow, if Gness hasn't beaten me to it!

[sandyRoe]

I am flattered now and not because someone mistook me for a famous poet

[Psybbo]

Shush, I hope she misses this, I can't handle the competition!

[gness]

Ah...but you have the voice to make a man swoon....so.....handbags at dawn.....Sandy can drop the neckerchief........♥

[maggiebee]

A wee bit like Terry Pratchet?? Know he's no longer with us but think there is a bit of a similarity, but of course it could just be the beard.