Wednesday 10 July 2019

Wednesday Medley -10/7/19


The Wednesday Medley is hosted by Terri over at Your Friend from Florida.
The questions usually start with the National Day and follow on from there. No rules and there is no obligation. Link up if you want to over at Terri's site and see who else is joining in the fun.


Today is NATIONAL CLERIHEW DAY

July 10th of each year celebrates National Clerihew Day in the United States.  Edmund Clerihew Bentley created the whimsical, four-line biographical poem.
An English novelist and humorist, Edmund Clerihew Bentley (July 10, 1875 – March 30, 1956), was a 16-year-old student when he thought up the lines for his first ever clerihew.
Sir Humphry Davy Abominated gravy. He lived in the odium
Of having discovered sodium
As with most poetry, the Clerihew is defined by a set of rules. It must contain four lines, rhyming couplets of AA/BB, a person’s name in the first line, say something about that person and it should be humorous. It is meant to be a funny poem, of course.
1.  Try your hand at a Clerihew poem or two or three!  
There was a little boy called Nathan
Who had a favourite television station
It's called CBeebies and it's lots of fun
And it shuts down each day when bedtime has come

There was a young boy called Rory
Who thankfully is always hunky dunky
He smiles and giggles and cuddles his Mum
And when Nanny Grandsits we have such fun

There once was a boy called Noah
Who likes to take things slower
His nature is sunny and he finds things funny
But his favourite thing is to cuddle his Mummy

There once was a woman called Wendy
Who when she was young was quite bendy
But now that she's older and time's flying past
She's cross because her suppleness didn't last
2.  Tell us something about your week so far.
I am having a hectic week.  Because my daughter cannot get about easily due to her injured ankle and my daughter-in-law is self-employed so can't afford to take time off work I've doing an extra day with Nathan this week which means 4 days of Grandsitting altogether.  
I am tired!  And I still have tomorrow to get through.  But then hubby are away for the weekend - just the two of us.  Can't wait!


7 comments:

  1. Enjoy your weekend away, Wendy! I LOVE your Clerihew poems! So far, yours take the prize!! xoxox

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  2. Oh my! I love your clarihew poems!! Great job.
    Have a nice get away with your hubby this weekend! Loved your answers. Have a nice week.

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  3. No wonder that you are tired ! we are not 30 anymore ! In one way I am lucky, I don't have to do babysitting, they live too far away ! And watching him growing is through Whatsapp ! Anyway with helicopter parents, not even the grandmothers are good enough, lol !

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  4. Great job on the poem, smiles. Have a nice weekend away.

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  5. Those grand babies can sure wear us out. And they grow up way too fast.

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