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Not much to contribute this week, so here's a poem. The Ice Cream Man, written by Michael Longley. You would rhyme off the flavours. That was before They murdered the ice-cream man on the Lisburn Road And you bought carnations to lay outside his shop. I named for you all the wild flowers of the Burren I had seen in one day: thyme, valerian, loosestrife, Meadowsweet, tway blade, crowfoot, ling, angelica, Herb robert, marjoram, cow parsley, sundew, vetch, Mountain avens, wood sage, ragged robin, stitchwort, Yarrow, lady’s bedstraw, bindweed, bog pimpernel.Rum and raisin, vanilla, butter-scotch, walnut, peach: