Spent most of my working years educating young children - still think it is a very rewarding job, in spite of governments' attempts to put education and educators into a strait jacket of tests and tables.
Other loves - my family (one daughter, four grandchildren) : my cat (even older than me in cat-years!) : theatre(as audience, also amateur acting, writing for, directing) : music (most kinds) : reading(hooked on murder mysteries, detest romances) : writing; and local U3A activities - including editing magazine. Earlier penchant for foreign travel now succumbing to age, income and environmental concerns -but I have visited all the continents, including Antarctica, so I have some wonderful memories - and videos!
Five little piggies, struggling for the teat,
Curly tails trembling, aren't they sweet!
Served on a platter with an apple in his snout,
Now there's only four, he's been counted out.
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Why don’t I believe in God? Oh, heck; what a question.
Trying to form an answer gives me mental indigestion.
If you really press me, when push has turned to shove,
I think what really balks me, is “God’s Infinite Love”.
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The wheel of life is always turning as along the way we wend,
At each new step there is more learning 'til we reach our journey's end.
As little children, how we grasp at each new skill that comes our way,
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Edmund Bent-
ley wrote “The Last Case of Trent”.
His middle name was Clerihew,
Rhymes for that are very few.
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