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Dad’s Chair

Write about a favourite family tradition.

We lived in many houses

We had so many homes

But one thing never, ever changed.

Dad always had his chair.

It’d be a different one of course

The seats came with the house

But there’d be a seat our Dad sat in

He’d have a special chair.

You might perch on it now and then

But soon as Dad came in

We’d quickly leave the special chair

Our father would sit in.

First beside the radio

Later front TV

He’d choose the entertainment

What we all could see.

A three piece suite was standard

A second chair, settee

But just one chair was special

The one that Dad sat in.

He’d seldom venture from it

If he was in the house

To us it was the seat of power

A kind of family throne.

I like to jump off bridges

What do you enjoy doing most in your leisure time?

I thought we’d all just answered this.

Do you need the same again!

I’ll have to answer differently

It can’t just be the same.

So I’ll try to answer differently.

I hope you’ll like this more.

It maybe won’t be truthful

But you might enjoy it more.

I like to jump from bridges

My toenails painted pink

To go around with orange hair

And cause a mighty stink.

I carve my name on doorposts

Paddle in the sink

Ride a trike quite recklessly

Give passing cars a dink.

I go where I’m not wanted

And rudely interfere.

I ruffle people’s feathers

And then just disappear.

I aim to be a nuisance

Get pleasure from the mess

Do I like just causing trouble?

The answer’s clearly yes.

You asked the same old questions

Just in a different way

Provoked me into this response

My answer for today.

‘I get around’.

Name an attraction or town close to home that you still haven’t got around to visiting.

Can’t think of any we’ve not been to – so with apologies to the Beach Boys.

Round, round, get around (I get around)
Missed some place? Heaven no! I get around
I get around (get around, get around, get around town)
From town to town (get around, round, round, I get around)
I have an old head but I (get around, round, round, I get around)
I keep myself busy (get around, round, round, I get around)

I’m not tired yet of this this same old strip
But if I need a new place I’ll hop on a ship.

Our local area’s real well known
Yeah, no place near we won’t be goin’.

I get around (get around, round, round, I get around)
From town to town (get around, round, round, I get around)
I’m a cool old head (get around, round, round, I get around)
Too old to make bread (get around, round, round, I get around)
I get around, round, get around, round, round, ooh

Wah-wa-ooh
Wah-wa-ooh
Wah-wa-oohI

I’ll take car our cause it can’t be beat
Though we always get stuck in the traffic we meet.

We’re still fairly steady ’cause it wouldn’t be right
To walk with a zimmer on a Saturday night

I get around (get around, round, round, I get around)
From town to town (get around, round, round, I get around)
I’m a real old head (get around, round, round, I get around)
Too old to make bread get around, round, round, I get around)
I get around, round

Round, round, get around, I get around
Yeah, get around, round, round, I get around
Get around, round, round, I get around
Get around, round, round, I get around
Get around, round, round, I get around
Get around, round, round, I get around
Get around, round, round, I get around

Five fun things

List five things you do for fun.

List five things you do for fun

Well silly rhymes for one.

This is kind of one of them

So guess I have begun?

Let’s put running number two

Another thing I do.

I feel like a kid again

That’s fun in my view.

Watching sport is number three

Obsessed with it that’s me!

Football, rugby; either game

I watch obsessively.

I’ll be dad dancing number four.

My efforts clear the floor.

Anything that has a beat.

I can’t ask for much more.

Number five the countryside

Just to be outside.

Give me space and good fresh air

To wander far and wide.

I’m in love with a penguin

If you could make your pet understand one thing, what would it be?

I’m in love with a penguin

It’s wildlife that floats my boat.

I’m not that struck on a dog or a cat.

It’s penguins get my vote.

We’re out on the ocean

One whale of a time

I like to see wild creatures

Don’t need them to be mine.

I’m too old for dream jobs

What’s your dream job?

I’m too old for dream jobs

The old don’t dream of work.

I had enough of working life

The need to earn a crust.

There’s no place now I have to be

Or boss I must obey.

There’s time to do the stuff I like

Unworried by the pay.

There’s some things I still dream of.

I’ve still not wrote that book.

But dream jobs. It’s too late for them.

I think I missed the boat.

Leadership is vision

What makes a good leader?

True leadership is vision

It points the way to go.

A people see what they must do

And do it for themselves.

Good leaders are empowering

Don’t tell you what to do.

They help you find the best in you.

You do things for yourself.

A leader will surround himself

With all the help he needs.

He knows he’s not a one man show

Can’t do it all himself.

He pulls us all together

We each have our own role.

He helps us work collectively

And each play to our strengths.

The final thing I ought to say

Is he can be a her.

There’s nothing in these qualities

That says he’s not a girl.

No contest. The Bomb!

If you could un-invent something, what would it be?

Uninvent? No contest!

Has to be the bomb.

And if it can’t be all of them.

We’ll say the nuclear one.

Bombs are indiscriminate

You don’t know who you’ll kill.

Most likely be civilians

They are the coward’s way.

And the ‘payload just gets bigger

You can wipe whole cities out

Devastate whole countries

Obliterate our world.

Nuclear deterrence?

Supposed to keep us safe.

But who will rivals target

But others who have bombs?

Have they been successful

Or out an end to wars?

No. We’re too scared to use them.

Violence has not paused.

We’re waiting for the idiot

The ultimate suicide

Then that will be the end of it

We’ll all go up in smoke.

Antarctica – the least cluttered place on earth.

Where can you reduce clutter in your life?

We are in Antarctica

The least cluttered place on earth.

Unspoilt, uncluttered beautiful

Where humans seldom go.

It’s a haven here for wildlife

A place where nature thrives

Protected internationally

For science and research.

It’s a good place for reflection

And to know what matters most.

We live such busy cluttered lives

While here there’s peace and quiet.

Time to do a stock take

To think of what can go.

A simpler, less complex life

With space for thoughts to grow.

Right now I’m into penguins

What is your favourite animal?

Right now I’m into penguins

Hope to see one soon.

Cruising to Antartica

In sight of icebergs soon.

We didn’t get to see them

Through the Magellan Strait

But sailing to Antartica

And Falklands after that.

They are fabulous creatures

That live upon the ice

Dignified and characterful

Despite the funny walk.

They live in harsh conditions

Protective of their young.

Everybody loves them.

We hope to meet some soon.