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New Year Resolutions 2011 Sonnets

The Paper Bath Mat

Is there nothing paper cannot achieve? i would never have thought of using it to make bath mats out of, its enough to drive one to poetic thoughts…

This paper bath mat even shows you where to put your feet. 21st century living at its best.
In my room ensuite there’s a thing that I see
Its an oblong disposable paper bath mat
Printed on it are feet bigger than me
Feet that size belong on one taller and fat
At least the mats not just a special towel
And no scabby dirty feet have used this before
Getting a veruka can be terribly foul
So well done mat for preventing a foot sore
Its made of an odd sort of material
And is not soft like the one at home used
The paper may not be sustainable
Is it superior or not, I am confused
But at this time it does fill a great need
The floor has no puddles – success indeed!
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New Year Resolutions 2011 Unusual Hybrids

The Dog Fish – And Chaos Theory

Is it a fish or is it a dog, is it a fishdog? No its a dogfish. Some crazy people think dogfish are a type of shark but I think it is a close cousin of a beagle…

It is said that if a dogfish wags his tail in the South China Sea it can cause good surfing in Newquay. This is a known as the Dogfish Effect and is a key concept in Chaos Theory.

Get the surfboards out, this is one happy fish...
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New Year Resolutions 2011 Sonnets

Stairs

You can go up them and down them, how amazing is that?

Stairs…

Oh glorious thing that is the flight of Stairs
A method of getting higher by your feet
Lifts can get stuck and a person their odour shares
So the reliable method of ascent isn’t beat.
So be happy and rejoice when it’s time to ascend
Be ecstatic and merry afterwards when you go down
It is joyous whether going up or descend
Especially after getting ready to hit the town.
But it has to be said that some stairs go too high
And accidents occur on them when you have to shift
And stairs get harder to manage as time goes by
And you then have to invest in a Stannah Stair lift.
But without more storeys more space we’ll take
Without stairs man  will spread out like a pancake.
~
Building a stairway to heaven but giving up after 5 steps may look like this and make a far better song too.
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New Year Resolutions 2011 Unusual Hybrids

Octopussy

Cat and Octopus Hybrid
"An all time high" for genetic engineering...
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New Year Resolutions 2011 Sonnets

Toilet trouble

An attempt at a more italian style, the volta is the point at which i have given up and have lost my enthusiasm for fiddling with a cistern and dripping pipe…

We had no flush in our upstairs toilet
The problem was not too hard to discern
We needed a new part in the cistern
A job not hard that we thought should be met
Even though the property is one that’s let
So repairs aren’t something we have to turn
But toilet function I did actually once learn
But this repair i would like to forget
It would be nice to be mended for spring
But I think it will be broken till summer
It is very possibly the most recent thing
That has now made me feel somewhat dumber
Maybe I should just to the phone now swing
And let it be done by an expert plumber
toilet and cat
We could all use a litter tray like cats do.
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animal births

January’s baby boom

After a multi species new years eve party the following love children could well have been born this month…

7th Frog

10th Platypus

11th Sparrow

12th Opossum

13th Mocking Bird

14th Robin

15th Humming Bird

16th Queen Bee

17th Hamster

18th Dove

19th Musky Rat Kangaroo

20th Lemming

21st Mouse

22nd Rat

23rd Gerbil

24th Duck

25th Tick

26th Macaw

27th Flamingo

28th Axolotyl

29th Muskrat

30th Swan

31st Rabbit

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Unusual Hybrids

The Pordile

When a porcupine mates with a crocodile the resulting animal looks like this…

Porcupine and Crocodile hybrid
The Pordile who despite its sharp teeth lives on a diet of apples and cabbage
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New Year Resolutions 2011 Sonnets

Flu, colds

Colds come and make you blow your nose
They make you cough and make you sneeze
Tiredness from your head to your toes
As you breathe in you find you wheeze
Its the curse of dark winter days
Micro invaders make you feel so grotty
Viral attacks in this annual dark phase
They make throats burn and noses quite snotty
It’s true that lemsip will try its best
Paracetemol  Ibuprofen assist
Days off work in bed having a rest
And maybe another day’ll be missed
So now I’ll say this loud and quite bold
Damn you foul winter and damn you cold

Health and Safety Disclaimer :

1) Don’t mix lemsip with parecetemol (lemsip is disgusting anyway so I’d just go for paracetemol)

2) Don’t do that joke about why are there no aspirin in the jungle (because the parrots ate em all)

Jack Frost, Flu Virus, Black Ice, Yellow Snow and Darkness at 5pm
These are the biggest evils of winter and must be stopped at all costs (maybe by the onset of spring?)
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New Year Resolutions 2011 Sonnets

DeodeRANT

An Ode to a deoderant (a deODEerant) that turned to a rant about deoderant (a deodeRANT). Summing up the dilemma of rollon or aerosol…

Each morning I’ll use some deoderant,
After rising showering and then shaving,
If we were all far less considerant,
We could each month all then  find we are saving,
I’ve found that maybe the most hassle free way,
Is not to use roll on under my armpits,
I’ve found it best to apply with aerosol spray,
As the wet underarms just get on my tits,
But there are problems when using the spray can,
I’ll not know when the spray’s gone and no more,
And what is the dose useful for one man?
Fifteen centimetres away can I be sure?
This dilemma has got me to now think,
Damn that foul deoderant let us just stink.

(MC Jan 2011)

Rollon or Spray?
Cats never seem to need deoderant...