Your Stories, Poems and Limericks
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Limericks
There once was a Mum with a table
In a house with a door and a gable
When asked if she would
Sit down to eat with her brood
She said that they're all watching cable
Catherine - Editor, Raisingkids.co.uk
There was a young lady called Mable
Who said, 'Let's get back to the table!
Let's eat en famille,
With Vin and with Brie,
A dinner of legend and fable.'
Dr Pat Spungin - Founder, Raisingkids.co.uk
Let's get back to the table,' says Pat
'Eat together in house or in flat
If you eat with your folks,
There'll be fun and good jokes
And plenty of time for a chat.'
Dr Pat Spungin - Founder, Raisingkids.co.uk
Let's all get back to the table
all of those who are willing and able
It could be a chance
to seek words of romance
or more likely to see who's unstable!
Steph - via email
Poems
I remember the day my wife went away
Leaving me with Steph, Alex, Jo ....but no Mable
And the kids they would say, Whats tea for today?
Can you manage dad, are you quite able?
Fish fingers I cried and laid them aside
Red sauce straight onto the table!
They thought this was fun and without poor mum
We do it whenever we're able!
When my wife returned home
From Athens and Rome
She thought we'd become most unstable
And not only that our black and white cat
Had a grin as broad as our gable.
Sent in by Chris
Mummy, Hannah and Hollie,
are all pushing a trolley,
for it's food they're after,
which causes some laughter,
as they all sit down to the table.
Sent in by S. Ives
Around the table, I observed
The power of the spoken word
Long after food was cleared away
The thoughts remain with me today
To share good food with fact and fable
And build the family round the table
Sent in by Michael W.
My Mum had this on her wall when I was growing up:
Sit at the table
Take a look
The first to complain
Is next week's cook.
Sent in by
Ali.
