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On hearing the back door open, it was never locked, Foot steps in the kitchen, bedroom door we chocked, Then we heard mothers Coo-eee, relieved to hear her call, Have you missed me duckies, we bloomin have an all. (Our farm house was out on its own and...
Frosty weather glistens inside, a fridge you could compare, Roof half filled with starling's nests, built up over the years. In one of our farthest fields, situated about a mile east of the village was a pair of cottages known as Hobble End. There...
Can hear them chewing under the floor, middle of the night, The very board bed stands on, a hole right through not quite, There cannot be many houses these days that have mice in the house, but in the old houses where the floor boards are creaky with...
Mother always worked so hard, to rear her brood of kids, As we grew bigger and in our teens, we must have cost her quids, Back in the 1950's there were six of us to sit round the kitchen table for meal times, plus for a few years dads brother, uncle...