Bonus Week from Viv =)

Hi, All I’m the guest challenger this week as it is a five-week month.

I don’t expect to be up to the challenges of the others but I will do my best.

 I thought I would share one of the poems that I enjoy and makes me laugh.

Warning - When I Am an Old Woman I Shall Wear Purple

By Jenny Joseph

When I am an old woman, I shall wear purple

with a red hat that doesn't go, and doesn't suit me.

And I shall spend my pension on brandy and summer gloves

and satin candles, and say we've no money for butter.

I shall sit down on the pavement when I am tired

and gobble up samples in shops and press alarm bells

and run my stick along the public railings

and make up for the sobriety of my youth.

I shall go out in my slippers in the rain 

and pick the flowers in other people's gardens

and learn to spit.

 You can wear terrible shirts and grow more fat

and eat three pounds of sausages at a go

or only bread and pickles for a week

and hoard pens and pencils and beer nuts and things in boxes.

But now we must have clothes that keep us dry

and pay our rent and not swear in the street

and set a good example for the children.

We must have friends to dinner and read the papers.

But maybe I ought to practice a little now?

So people who know me are not too shocked and surprised

When suddenly I am old, and start to wear purple.

 Jenny Joseph was born in Birmingham and went on to be a journalist. She wrote this poem in 1961 although I didn’t come across it until I bought 

“The Nations Favourite Comic Poems”

I must admit I have never read any other of her poems but now I feel I want to find out more.

In January my craft group made a

Dream board

We cut pictures and words out of magazines that say and show things we’d like to be or do in our future.

Here is mine.

The poem and the Dream Board gave me the idea to challenge you to think about what you would like to do or where you would like to be in the future. 

What do you think?

It doesn’t have to be when you are old, just in your future, maybe even tomorrow or next week.

a dream holiday, a different house, new car, anything really. 

Perhaps also you could take photos this week of works in progress, Family, crafts, something in the home or at work. Whatever you think fits the bill.

Love to you all Vivienne xxx