Wednesday 10 December 2014

Time for Reflection

 
 
 
Time for Reflection
 
 
The end of the year is not far away
I sit and write my Christmas cards and realise their are fewer than last year
The present is slowly slipping past
Friends and relatives leave this earth and only memories remain
They leave behind happy memories of times spent with them
A life which, from this distance, seems to have been much gentler than it is now
I do not mourn  - but rejoice that I was part of their lives  and they of mine,
The coming generation will fill the gaps and life will continue
Not as it is now, but as it will become because they will shape it
Christmas is a time to take stock of where we are
The New Year will lead us to the path we must now take.
 
 
Ann Redburn
 


Thursday 4 December 2014

a Policemans Lot

A POLICEMANS LOT
Stay where you are,
Keep your hands in your pockets,
Always remember this,
Shoplifters will always be prosecuted!...
That was the anthem, of every trader,
In every shop throughout the land of Salford,
They put up signs and fisheye mirrors,
All around their shops,
Then fail to watch the shoplifters,
"4817 to foxtrot four",
"I've got this shoplifter pinned to the floor"
"Send us a van as soon as your can",
"1013 here , I've got it in hand"


Jonny Crook