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Opening Oration for the Society of Beef Cobblers

We bear hard these slights of the winters freeze, With shov’lling of snow and cracking of ice. Awaiting spring and her freshening breeze, As wish and want, seem now doubled in price. We try to keep warm our friendships embrace, The years, as always, pass on their...

Snooker Championship with Grandad Kelly

Winter drawn in, now enveloping days; Suppertime done, and attention astray. Chatty memories, noisy Blind Date plays, Novembers long, and Christmas weeks away. Cars wet and slow go forth to town and bar, No light coming from the darkening stairs, Watching raindrops...