He’s a poet and he knows it!

I was busily working away researching trivia for the ‘Did You Know’ section of my Book Of Shadows (B.O.S) here at Moria’s Place and discovered it was the birthday today of this poet and so…………………  Just because this tickles me…. A tribute to Shel Silverstein (poet) who was born in 1930.

"I cannot go to school today,"

Said little Peggy Ann McKay.

"I have the measles and the mumps,

A gash, a rash and purple bumps.

My mouth is wet, my throat is dry,

I'm going blind in my right eye.

My tonsils are as big as rocks,

I've counted sixteen chicken pox

And there's one more--that's seventeen,

And don't you think my face looks green?

My leg is cut--my eyes are blue--

It might be instamatic flu.

I cough and sneeze and gasp and choke,

I'm sure that my left leg is broke--

My hip hurts when I move my chin,

My belly button's caving in,

My back is wrenched, my ankle's sprained,

My 'pendix pains each time it rains.

My nose is cold, my toes are numb.

I have a sliver in my thumb.

My neck is stiff, my voice is weak,

I hardly whisper when I speak.

My tongue is filling up my mouth,

I think my hair is falling out.

My elbow's bent, my spine ain't straight,

My temperature is one-o-eight.

My brain is shrunk, I cannot hear,

There is a hole inside my ear.

I have a hangnail, and my heart is--what?

What's that? What's that you say?

You say today is. . .Saturday?

G'bye, I'm going out to play!"

tp://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/16480

Remembrance Day Poppies

WHAT IDIOT DID THIS!

‘The Royal British Legion has been banned from selling poppies in a city centre in the run-up to Remembrance Sunday because of council red tape.

The charity is forbidden from collecting in parts of Birmingham in the days before November 13 because other charities were granted a license to do so first.

Birmingham City Council has changed its application system to allow only one charity to collect in any street at once, meaning the day before Remembrance Sunday there will be no poppy sellers in the city.’ Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2037611/RBL-poppy-sellers-banned-city-streets-council-red-tape.html#ixzz1Y1cTZBfi

It is ridiculous that only one charity can collect at any one time in the first place, but how the heck could anyone NOT think that, given this ruling, that the only one that should be collecting in the days approaching Remembrance Day should absolutely and unequivocally be The Poppy Appeal!

I get the fact that they were refused permission for the 12th (The legion is also not permitted to collect anywhere in the city on November 12 as 'Birmingham Marrow on behalf of The Anthony Nolan Trust' has booked the slot Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2037611/RBL-poppy-sellers-banned-city-streets-council-red-tape.html#ixzz1Y1ditF7O) after all it does seem reasonable to expect that people would have bought their poppies by then, but to not be allowed to sell them on the 11th is unbelievable.

Get real Birmingham City Council!

Presenters and Interviewees

I was watching the channel four news last night and it made me so cross but it wasn’t the content, it was the interviewee that set me off! Why, oh why, must people jerk about like demented marionettes, waving their arms all over the place,  jutting their chin out and nodding their heads in time to what they are saying? If you were talking to someone in real life and they kept jerking their head, shrugging their shoulders and flapping their arms around in support of their punctuation you’d think they were mad!, or that they had St Vitas Dance or something.

It seems to me that we now have a nation of Gordon Ramsey’s on T.V. (visually, not verbally) and I for one, find it very distracting and rather than emphasising what they are saying, it detracts one from focusing on the actual content of their discourse.

Get a grip you people, stop flapping around and just talk, it would be so much more effective and you would get your messages out to so many more people!