Children's Shoes

Andmymare · [Fri Nov 11, 2005 1:27 am]

Oh my god this is charming! It reads as if it were fun to write as well. Not only is this funny from your point of view, but I can hear it being read to children.. Cool

This is very fetching.
Andmymare

Firecat · [Fri Nov 11, 2005 7:20 am] **Children's Shoes**

Thankyou so much, Andy!

I owe so much to Mabel Lucy Atwell. We grew up with a poem of hers on our bathroom wall:

Please remember, don't forget,
Never leave the bathroom wet.
Nor leave the soap still in the water,
That's a thing we never oughter!
Nor leave the towels about the floor,
Nor keep the bath an hour or more
When other folks are wanting one.
Please don't forget, it isn't done!

The biggest compliment I got a year ago was a shoe shop owner asking if I minded if he put it up on the shop wall.

Minded!!!
Cat

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Bedford [<16] · [Fri Nov 11, 2005 10:37 am]

"Gis a doc martin scholl winklepicker platform in pink glitter please mate................and for the other foot."............................ "MUM JUST SHUT UP WILL YA!" Shocked

goldengirl · [Fri Nov 11, 2005 7:11 pm]

been shopping with kids then have you firecat - the poem rings so true Laughing

gg
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Firecat · [Fri Nov 11, 2005 7:16 pm]

GG, I have a boy and a girl, for my sins! Wink

spiderbaby49 · [Sat Nov 12, 2005 1:20 pm]

I have been a kids shoe fitter.
I've seen fights which are so bitter.
"I want the red ones, with the glitter"

Box upon box, all shapes and hues.
I've seen the stress, the tears, the blues
of end of hols shopping for shoes

and I've been on the other side,
a Mum to four, Oh how I've tried
to see that while I can't abide

the too high heels, the straps, the shine
their tastes are far removed from mine.
That what I hate, they find devine.

A compromise we have to reach.
Don't bully, bribe, dictate, beseech.
resignedly for wallet reach.

Just smile and realise that you know
that when to school they come and go
plastered blisters all on show

You'll quietly say
"I told you so!"

spidey
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Firecat · [Sat Nov 12, 2005 5:02 pm]

Hey! That's lovely! ~ and much better than mine! Shocked

Publish it!
If I could remember who wrote the poem that inspired mine and hack it out of Get Writing, maybe we could get a chain of Children's Shoes going, each inspired by the other.... Head hurts

Must drop round your place to see what other cheer you can give me!
Cheers

Firecat · [Sat Nov 12, 2005 5:34 pm]

The poem that inspired mine was Teenage Shoes, by Fullanonsense. Does anyone know how I can go back into her space in Get Writing and rescue it? Confused

spiderbaby49 · [Mon Nov 14, 2005 12:03 pm]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/getwriting/A3178965

There you go. If you want to find a piece of work on GW and put the name of the author and or the work in yahoo or google search it usually brings up the work or the author's GW PF.

Ali
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Firecat · [Mon Nov 14, 2005 4:02 pm]

Wow!
Thankyou, Spidey, I've just been and looked! and it's even better than I remembered!
So, when are you going to publish this one of yours? Question

spiderbaby49 · [Mon Nov 14, 2005 4:27 pm]

Ts done .

ali
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Bedford [<16] · [Mon Nov 14, 2005 4:32 pm]

Whilst on the subject of feet. Featprints. http://www.morewriting.co.uk/work/6950
Well why not Shocked

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