Favourite Things

 

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FAVOURITE THINGS

An acrostic....in case you hadn't noticed!

Tea-drinking sessions with people I treasure,

Happy hours lazing, enjoying my leisure 

Eating strong cheese with a biscuit or two

Singing old songs; I don't know any new!

Entering houses where friendship's residing,

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Answering questions, when I am confiding;

Reading good books, though I don't do that much;

Enjoying a fabric that's soft to the touch.

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Ambling along when I should be fast-walking;

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Finding the right words when I feel like talking;

Editing writing when it's not too tiring;

Watering the garden. It can be inspiring.

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Opening letters from well-loved old friends;

Finding I'm coping with modern new trends;

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Moving the furniture into new places;

Yodelling, aided by tenors and basses. 

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Finding lost socks at the bottom of drawers;
Attempting some Scrabble and writing the scores
Visiting sick people if they don't moan;
Offering Banjo a biscuit or bone.
Using up left-overs, feeling quite thrifty.
Reacting to characters who look quite shifty.

Icing large cakes! (That's completely untrue!)
Thinking deep thoughts that I won't tell to you.
Echoing statements, sometimes in reverse.

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Telling folk stories, quite often in verse.
Hanging out washing that has a nice smell.
Ironing the same, though I don't do it well.
Noticing oddities when I'm in town.

Giving a smile in response to a frown'
Succeeding in writing acrostics sometimes.

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A lot of it's rubbish but I'm glad that it rhymes!

*I actually don't yodel!

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YELLOW BRICK ROAD

It wont lead you Over the Rainbow,

Or even to Munchkin Land,

But just to the local Swimming Pool,

Blue sea and golden sand.

But it's a magic pathway

For all who care to climb

This Yellow Brick Road in Newcastle

When summer's at its prime.

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PS

My two youngest grandsons came round yesterday to wish Malcolm a happy birthday. They were in their sports uniforms so I thought I'd take them together. But the best photos of them turned-out to be single ones, so I had to crop. Little boys like making funny faces!

Harry

Max