Nursery Rhyme For Our Time

There was an old mother Whose home was a shoe. When her gas bill went up She didn’t have a clue. ‘We must tighten our belts Or we shall be up in

the docks. We must catch our own fish, Start to wash our own socks.’

She encouraged her sons To take up huntin’

and shootin’, Become self-reliant Due to Vladimir Putin.

Life wasn’t so easy With kids to feed in

this shoe, But haven’t all things

got harder In 2022? ian ellis, Douglas, isle of Man.