Even More Nostalgia

[corylus]

Can any of you remember the poem that started 'I'm going to grandma's for a bit, my mother's got the copper lit and Mrs Griggs has come and she is just as cross as can be.

My old school friend used to recite this frequently. I've looked it up and apparently it was written by Fay Inchman.

[Buenchico]

I'm come across it before in recent years but I certainly never encountered it at school. We didn't do much poetry at junior school and our grammar school would have regarded the subject matter as far too 'common' for 'young gentlemen', as we were always being told we were. (Simply playing soccer for an organised team, in your own time, was an automatic expulsion offence. Rugby, we were told, was the sport for young gentlemen; only common boys played soccer).

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