Cute!

PINK SATURDAY

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CUTE!

'Cute' is not my favourite word but here it's justified.

Here is a bright pink Mother Pig, piglets drinking at her side.

As you see the baby pigs are technologically designed,

Little USB pigs! What an attractive find!

I imagine a whole farmyard could be, in time, assembled,

With all the suckling animals carefully resembled.

Mother's tail isn't curly, that's my only gripe,

But realism's not aimed for in novelties of this type.

Technology can be sterile, but, in this delicious case,

We are looking at technology's delightfully playful face.

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JELLY-BABIES

A boring human baby doesn't really have much history,

I speak of the 'pink and fleshy', with not a lot of mystery.

But a jelly baby is different; its story is written down

And, in confectionary circles, it's a 'baby' of renown.

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Jelly-babies were invented at the end of World War One,

To celebrate the fact that war was over, finished, done.

The 'babies' represented renewal; a brand new generation;

They were launched with quite a fanfare and every expectation. 

But production ceased in World War Two; sugar was in short supply

And 'peace' could not be celebrated when men were going to die.

However, their popularity continues to this day

And it seems that jelly-babies are surely here to stay.

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One interesting footnote...... nearly fifty years ago

The Beatles adored the 'babies' and let everybody know.

So, in England, they were pelted with them when on concert tours,

By screaming fans, who added them to conventional applause.

When the Beatles went to America, jelly-babies were not known,

So the crowds threw jelly-beans instead, each one like a little stone!

They found this rather painful, and each gave a little yelp!

(Maybe they'd been singing that well-known ballad ......'Help!')

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