silent sunday

tomorrow comes quickly

SONG FOR A FIFTH CHILD

by Ruth Hulbert Hamilton

Mother, oh Mother, come shake out your cloth,
Empty the dustpan, poison the moth,
Hang out the washing and butter the bread,
Sew on a button and make up a bed.

Where is the mother whose house is so shocking?
She’s up in the nursery, blissfully rocking.
Oh, I’ve grown shiftless as Little Boy Blue.
(Lullaby, rockaby, lullaby loo).
Dishes are waiting and bills are past due.
(Pat-a-cake, darling, and peek, peekaboo).

The shopping’s not done and there’s nothing for stew
And out in the yard there’s a hullabaloo
But I’m playing Kanga and this is my Roo.
Look! Aren’t his eyes the most wonderful hue? (Lullaby, rockaby, lullaby loo).

The cleaning and scrubbing will wait till tomorrow,
For children grow up, I’ve learned to my sorrow.
So quiet down, cobwebs. Dust go to sleep.
I’m rocking my baby and babies don’t keep.

Well, we didn’t get as far as a fifth child, but the poem still applies. The theme for this week at Tara’s Gallery is Tomorrow. It comes before you know it.

first day of the holidays

Not so much of the peaceful gardening, more of the stamping on the flowerbeds than I’d like.

But I wouldn’t have it any other way.

Thanks to all four Moore children, and their two best chums (purple t-shirt and army hat).

Silent Sunday

it takes a village

My friend Sarah (read her blog here) is running the marathon to raise money for CLIC Sargent, the charity for children with cancer. Today 26 people from our village ran or walked a mile each to help her raise money towards her target of £10,000.

It was a lovely day, tinged with sadness for the one little person we’d hoped would be there to cheer her on.

It seemed that everyone in the village had baked a cake, or supplied a raffle prize, or helped out in some way. It’s amazing what one little village with a population of 700 can achieve. Today £240 was raised just from cake sales, a raffle and a tombola. Our friend Jo has raised over £300 in sponsorship for her one mile run.

There’s something you could do to help too – if you’d like to sponsor Sarah, the link to her page is here. Alternatively, right now if you click on the Tales from the Village Facebook page you’ll see a link to click like and help Sarah make an extra £500.

Thank you.