Me Tarzan, You Jane!

"Can I come?"

"Suppose so, just don't get in the way" 

 "You look like a monkey!"

 "No, I look like Tarzan!" 

"Stand back, this is too technical for girls"

 "Why?"

            aarh        aarh     arh      aaarh     arh"

"aarh       arrh        arh    aaarh        arh 

"Omph!"
"IMPRESSIVE!!"

Limping in Second!

I'm dressed as a Pirate with a monkey on my shoulder,

it's something I'd like to be when I'm a little older.

Maybe I'll sail away and find some buried treasure,

bring it back, settle down and live a life of leisure.

Its not fair!   Ian has won, and now he's laughing at me
 I can't imagine what he'll become, he's come dressed as a tree!

So that's where Big Ted went - Traitor!!

Fetch out the Bath

I'd played on the muck stacks and come home 'black bright'

Mi Mum got the bath out and its not Friday night!

It lived on a peg at the top of our cellar

But sat by the fire when it was bad weather

 I'd splish splash about and make quite a din

The fire kept the bath hot because it was tin!

A bath in the kitchen?  You'd think there'd be troubles

but I was discreet, because of the bubbles! 

Bubbles

 Muck Stacks   =  http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/481952

'Black Bright'  = covered in shiny black coal dust 

Old Remedy

I've got a wheeze, a sniffle and sneeze,
a cough too, and I'm thinking I'm sick
I've gone to see Granny,
and because she's so canny
 she slaps on a poultice right quick.

If that doesn't ease, she gets out the goose grease
and splothers me head to toe.
It does no good to me,
just makes me oilee
and dogs follow where ever I go!

Goose Grease Granny

Goose Fat Information Service link!!!

http://www.goosefat.co.uk/page/history

My Uncle Ken

Way up the mountain beyond all the houses,.

My Uncle Ken ripped a hole in his trousers

The wind was gale force and the weather was freezing

and the hole in his trousers just let the breeze in.

But he kept on going, and that blew my mind!

A true pioneer, at least from behind!

Uncle Kens Windy Gap!

Stanier 'Black 5'

With tremendous roar the Black Five exploded from the tunnel,

with fire, steam, soot and smoke blasting from its funnel.

The Express train raced toward me, the bridge began to shake;

but I was standing very still, ready to accept my fate.

It was getting closer still, my heart began to race

"Thats just Brilliant" I shout, a smile across my face.

The Black Five passed beneath, just inches from my feet

and covered me with soot and steam - that was a proper treat!

Stanier 'Black 5'

Link for more on the Stanier 'Black 5' 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LMS_Stanier_Class_5_4-6-0

Granddad, That's not a Sixpence!

When going to the shops one day

my Granddad found a tanner;

and ever since we passed that way

we'd bend down in his manner.

We didn't mind what people thought

or if they found it strange.

We knew that one day we would find

some more lost loose change.

He'd prod things with his walking stick

at things I'd think were funny

from bottle tops to bubble gum,

saying  'Where there's Muck, there's Money'

So I'd follow close behind him

and try to do the same.

He made me laugh my Granddad 

and we often played that game. 

"Wotcha found Granddad?"

'Tanner' = small silver coloured coin equivalent to six pre-decimal old pennies (sixpence) worth about two and a half  decimal pence or 12 cents and withdrawn as currency in 1971.

Great Expectations

Super duper Mini Cooper,

excellent Steam Roller,

Half a pound of Sugar Mice,

Bubble Gum and Cola.

Thats the Lucky Bag I'd like.

But its not the one I bought.

Mine contained some chalky sweets

and a tiny plastic goat!

Thaddeus 'playing the goat'!