09-05-2018, 10:23 PM
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Re: Leisurely Scribbles (part 5)
I'll tell her when she wakes up, she's asleep now on the sofa beside me and a bomb wouldn't wake her at the moment.
Whenever I asked my old Granny what as the best cure for anything she always cheekily answered “Keep it till it gets better” Maybe she had a point there, she was a great believer in suffering in silence, as were most women back then, very few like that today.
Here’s one for my old friend Gerry Higginbottom rest his soul, a moaner of the highest order when he was alive.
On Higgin’s bottom a boil did dwell
It made his cheek red and it pained him as well
It wasn’t very often that he got ‘em
He had two on his neck before, but never his bottom.
An office worker on moderate pay
Well he did sit on his arse all day
He phoned in to say he wasn’t coming
Sat on one cheek, and was comforted by his woman.
That night the pain was really severe
So a poultice he made on his bum to adhere
Off he went to lie down on his bed
Hoping in the morning it would come to a head.
But he was stuck with it for the whole week
Always turning the other cheek
Nothing lasts forever we are told
And soon Higginsbottom was back in the fold.