Minimalist poet, minimalist lifestyle

The Man From Del Monte (he says "Yes!")

The Honey Monster - Sugar Puffs

The Milky Bar Kid

Tony The Tiger

Jolly Green Giant

Green Cross Code Man

Felix The Cat

Dulux dog

I can't even remember what 'Tony The Tiger' was trying to sell; was it Shell petrol?

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Poetry update: received three letters this morning, two rejection slips - but one acceptance...they will be publishing several of my short poems over two or three editions of the magazine (it's easy to find room for them, I suppose.)

During my lifetime, in England...

We've changed our currency (gone decimal anyhow); fortunately we haven't embraced the Euro yet.

We've redrawn the boundaries of existing counties, split some counties up and created some entirely new ones.

Are in the final stages of changing over our traditional system of weights and measures to metric.

Have had to cope with a massive change to the ethnic and cultural composition of the population.

Completely changed the ethos of the education system.

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No-one was ever asked to vote on any of these changes though.