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Granddaughter R riding her birthday bike after I taught her to balance only three days ago.
Granddaughter J being helped to cut the cake at a birthday party held in her honour at school.
Young granddaughters are stunners:
Such news is old hat;
Now they’re riddlers and punners –
Where did they get that?
Snakes’ school subject with most fame?
Hissssss-story you seek!
Mice – just name their favourite game?
That’s hide and go squeak!
Favourite pastime of a cow?
Moooo-vies they attend!
Lovesick ballads they sing now?
Moooo-sick your ears bend!
Frogs say about something cool?
Toad-tally awe-some!
Poor pussies who are in school?
Dolphins, you saw some!
Horses in adjoining fields?
Neigh-b’horse, that would be!
Duck quacks when cracked egg it yields?
Right sound, eggs-quacked-ly!
(Adaptations of their stuff,
Altered for the rhyme –
This is much more than enough
For the present time!)
Re the subject heading: maybe I should approach the subject of local dogs doing riddles and punning on rubbish bag collection day (barking, ‘Lettuce pray!’) in the near future?
P.S. This is apparently my 1 111th post on WordPress!
© Colonialist May 2015 (WordPress)
I remember when I was a “big girl” and I could ride a bike without training wheels, it was one of the greatest feelings ever
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Wow! Congrats Col – very well done!
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I’ll take my pick of the teaching, the rhyme, and the 1,111th! Thanks!
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Lettuce pray?! Come on! There must (should) be a law about such puns!
🙂
Glad to see your granddaughters growing up fine.
(I was a total failure in teaching my daughters how to ride bikes. If there was one single tree a hundred yards away they’d end up in it. No helmet. My brother-in-law taught them)
🙂
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I am inclined to agree about the salad veneration!
My tuition method was to go in stages from a bike with training wheels, to a scooter for getting the hang of balancing, and finally the bike on a slight downhill to take away the wobbles one gets at first when pedalling. Seems to have worked!
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Well done on 1,111! Yiy certainly egg-celled yourself!
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🙂 I’ve had a number of years to do it in, though!
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Make sure you toss copies of this into their Hope Chests or Memory Lockers. And congrats on 1111 posts!!!
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I wonder if they’ll approve?
Thanks!
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You have excelled yourself!
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🙂 I still haven’t quite succeeded in extracting my mental processes out of the sewer, though!
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Congrats – (now it’s old hat?)
Nothings gets more laughs than kids’ word play. Great fun
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Many ancient bonnets are really elegant!
I find it so, indeed.
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