Our wonderful friends from Tunbridge Wells, Peppy Scott and David Smith, had to cancel due to the snow, Pam and Mr John had to cancel due to the snow, Printers had to cancel due to the snow! we were summarily defeated by the weather.
Mr John has sent out his mini poetry challenge via email as well as here:
'Tis the season to be jolly...'
Send them in through the website or email them in and we'll collate them to be sent out as a Christmas message to one and all.
Ho! Ho! Ho!
Here's some of our community's efforts and season's greetings!
“T’is the season to be jolly”?
Are you off your blank blank trolley!
No trains, no post, no doctors open!
We all agree our country’s broken.
But let’s not drown in melancholy.
Let’s fire an angry broadside volley
At all the miseries and moaners
who can’t see all this snow’s a bonus.
TV wall-to-wall World Cup and “Strictly”
helps the time go much more quickly
Next Sunday, stand up, sing out “Messiah”
and wave that Christmas brolly,
Replicate the Halle orchestra,
its choir and Barbirolli.
John Wright
'Tis the season to be jolly
All the adverts tell us so
Flashing lights instead of holly
Seen amid the winter snow
Hark the herald annual folly
Of the slick John Lewis show
O come all ye and fill your trolley
Christmas sold out long ago
Peppy Scott
'Tis the season to be jolly
Brussels sprouts and cheesy cauli
Afternoon reduced to farting
Watching all the guests departing...
David Smith
Tis the season to be jolly
With spirits of all kinds and mix berries
Mistletoe and mulled wine
Presents under Xmas trees
Santa's drunk on brandy
The elves are missing
Parties everywhere
Wrapping paper become paper hats
Bows stuck on body parts
Santa did a big burp
Songs sung out of tune
A period of beer bellies and much
laughter sweets chocolates Galore
Unwanted pressies no longer binned or given away but a
Trip to nearest supermarket to re-gift in a charity basket
Heads are fuzzy lots of sprouts eaten and after Xmas
decisions are made to lose weight, reduce alcohol consumption
Another year over can't wait for next xmas will do it all over again Xmas cheers
Linda Jackson
Oh yes, it’s Christmas.
Tis the season to be merry,
To pretend it’s not a sham,
That all that joviality
Is real and not a game,
That all those pricey presents
Are nothing more than ploys
To make you part with money
On gloss and silly toys.
So why on earth do we
Surrender to such calumny
And buy and buy beyond our means
Then worry that we might look mean
Or lacking taste or empathy
On what we choose as gifts
For friends and even family?
I’ve no idea.
Now where’s my debit card?
Bob Spencer
Tis the time to be jolly
Whilst lying on your trolley
Decked with IV and holly
Think not of government folly
Or who’s the greatest wally
Tis the time to be jolly cold
Whether you’re young or getting old
It’s a pig in a poke you’ve been sold
So count your blessings AND
Do As You Are Told
Mr John
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