Comments by "" (@johnd7904) on "#40 Summit Spectacular- Escape with the Mindful Narrowboat" video.

Dear Vanessa, I CONFESS, I’ve cheated. Allow me to explain. I thoroughly enjoyed your vlog this afternoon and was inspired to compose a haiku about the mallard. First, I jotted down several key words and phrases. I got stuck on just how many syllables were in the word dabbling. Was it two or three I wondered? I went to Google and found an intriguing haiku writing website. It was just too tempting. I just plugged in a few of my key words. And voila, a haiku better than my so far developed draft. You know Vanessa, come to think of it, this is not the first time that I was accused of cheating on writing a haiku. It was in middle school grade 8. I had the terror of the entire school teaching my English class. He was always shouting and picking on and embarrassing the students. This was 1968. He often carried a heavy yardstick and although I never saw him striking any students he sure knew how to scare us. If a student was foolish to be caught not paying attention the teacher would slam that yardstick on the student’s desktop. When our homework was to write a haiku he instantly outed me for cheating and got me to confess that my father “helped me”. My father pretty much wrote it for me. I’ll never forget the terror and the shame. The website is: https://www.poem-generator.org.uk/?i=riaf0rw and the one trial finished product is: Mallard - A Haiku by Anon Watery winter A dabbling mallard rasp whilst watching the drake PS: Dabbling – three syllables above and howmanysyllables.com says two.
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@themindfulnarrowboat Hmm, konnichiwa & sushi? LOL
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@themindfulnarrowboat Oh, you're welcome but is I who should be thanking you for taking the time to share such a wonderful vlog. Please keep up the fantastic effort!
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