Frogs and Fish and Big Muddy Puddles

Yesterday i went for a walk up a big hill called Ingleborough. I have been up this hill many times before but i still love walking up it. It is an awesome looking thing with a flat top and steep sides and it can be seen from miles around. Anyway...i scrambled to the top and then walked down a different way. It was really steep and muddy so i tried to be careful. I ended up doing a great comedy fall!! I slipped on the mud and went bum first straight into a big old muddy puddle!! SPLASH!! Even thought they was no-one around to see me i still made an effort and made it look like a comedy fall. I'm always performing y'see!!I think the sheep liked it!! Then i walked with mud dripping of me to the fish pond at the bottom and saw er...some fish and about 50 frogs. Frog were croaking, showing off and going a bit mad. Then i heard something that sounded like a big, i mean really big, lawnmower. I looked up and saw a helicopter, a massive one with 2 blades flying about 5 feet from my head!! Well it was more but it was close. So i had a great day, fish, frogs, big helicopters and a muddy comedy fall!!

Chocky Wocky Do Da

First day off in a long time today. over the last five weeks i have been in schools all over the place from Essex to Rotherham to Manchester to Leeds to Blackpool, Wakefield, Stockport, Batley, Liverpool, Richmond and Nottngham and more.....
I have driven about 2000 miles, done about 100 shows and performed to around 3500 people. Thats a lot of poems!!! Today though i well, i did this blog, kipped on the settee and read a book. I ran out of coffee and went to town for a wander. I did some stuff in the garden, like tidy up and wrote a title of a poem in my notebook. The poem is called Chocky Wocky Do Da. I haven't written the poem yet but the idea has landed...y'se when you are a poet, and WE ARE ALL POETS, even on a day off you are still thinking about stuff, the old cogs are still turning. Chocky Wocky Do Da, well it sounds good, kinda funny, baby talk, i suppose it has to be a poem about chocolate or does it.....

The Tornado And The Worm

My son Jack is into trampolining. He makes up tricks and stuff and generally bounces about having a great time. He gives his tricks cool sounding names like Back Bomb, Knee Bomb and Bum Bomb. Today he made up one called the Tornado and one called the Worm. The Tornado is like a big twister and the worm is where you jump really high and wriggle in mid-air. Its a bit like dancing. His fave is the Back Bomb which i invented!! I never had a trampoline when i was 8 but i would have loved one in the garden. All we had in the garden was the er...garden.