An Ideal Home
They bought themselves the country house
Of which they'd always dreamed,
A Tudor manor that in time
Proved greater than it seemed,
For six years after moving in,
Behind a hidden door,
They found another seven rooms
They'd never seen before.
Thursday 22nd December 2022 9:22 pm
Short Gardening Rhyme
He practises
On cactuses
And ferrets out the failures;
Then focuses
On crocuses,
Chrysanthemums and dahlias
Tuesday 19th July 2022 11:13 am
I is for Impala
If I had a pet impala
I would either call it Carla
Or Alma, after Alma Mahler.
(Unless, of course, it turned out bad,
In which case I would call it Vlad.)
Sunday 12th June 2022 9:35 pm
Bugger
Fifty-thousand pounds in debt,
The bailiffs on my case;
I have enough for one last bet
And to the bookie's race.
I pray to God to let me win,
And with a sense of dread,
I back a horse called Anne Boleyn...
It's beaten by a head.
Monday 6th June 2022 7:22 pm
An Occupational Hazard
At fancy dress parties I always have fun
Last Tuesday I went to one dressed as a nun,
I drank too much drink and was dreadfully drunk
And woke up on Wednesday in bed with a munk.
Saturday 21st May 2022 1:31 pm
Hey-Ho
My girlfriend is a clever-clogs,
A smarty-pants, a swot,
My girlfriend is a genius,
But I, alas, am not.
Sometimes when she comes round at night
I dumb her down with gin,
And then we play at Scrabble and...
I still don't fucking win.
Sunday 15th May 2022 9:22 pm
At Last, A Use For Shakespeare
I took Maria to see Macbeth,
She told me after she was bored to death.
The following day we went to Othello,
I could tell her brain was turning to Jell-o.
But even so there was no respite,
I made her watch Hamlet and Twelfth Night.
It was while we were at our fifth King Lear
That I knew for certain the end was near.
It came with Henry the Sixth part two,
She upped and cried: "That...
Sunday 8th May 2022 1:20 am
4 Years
I haven't had a single drink since 1992,
The year I first took heroin and started sniffing glue.
I haven't had a holiday since 1993,
The year I went to Brighton and caught typhus in the sea.
I haven't had a good night's sleep since 1994,
The year a fat Oasis fan moved in the house next door.
I haven't seen my mum and dad since 1995,
I locked them in the garden s...
Monday 18th April 2022 11:29 pm
What A Dick
Two highwaymen on Hampstead Heath
Compared their evening's lot:
"I robbed a royal," said the first,
"And this is what I got:
A thousand pounds, a golden ring,
An antique silver cup..."
To which the second smiled and said,
"That's great...Now stick 'em up."
Tuesday 11th January 2022 3:43 am
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