This is the actual recording of a message I sent last night to one of my friends in Australia. It was past midnight and I was rather tired but I had a fit of the giggles after hearing again the previous recording I had made, which was incredibly loud (and I didn’t know how to alter the sound levels at that point).

I noticed also that it might seem strange to my friend that I had begun writing epic poems on the subject of “Love crimes”. Of course, it will be a major work as I am a descendant of the great Dorset poet, William Barnes who, it is said, would have been up with Shakespeare in the literary stakes had he not been such a stickler for writing in the Dorset dialect; he had hoped to keep it alive by his writings, but was unsuccessful. I hope I shall be more successful with my own stab at my future poems,”Love Crimes”. Naturally, I shall be changing the title after publishing this audio film on Youtube, and you can be sure also that I shall not be using my real name!