Minor ponce alert - poetry became a topic of conversation tonight, and after Auden, Yeats, Shelley and Byron DD1 ...

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butts in with...

"you know, my favourite poem is this one....

You cannae push your Granny off the bus
You cannae push your Granny off the bus
.....

etc."

Blardy philistine, I don't know why we bother

what, you mean poetry became a topic of conversation around the tea table? Or while you were watchign X factor?

ponce indeed

No, we managed to talk about poetry over food....although DH had been at the whisky and was a bit maudlin, so we got onto Burns quite quickly...

We can ponce for Britain when we try, you know

DD is keeping our feet on the ground, though...

it's when you ponce for Britain without trying that you have to worry

I really thought we were being good parents, doing the whole "enjoy the language that is your heritage" thing....

But she only really want to sing stuff she's read in the Dandy, who can blame her