The Inkwell#fowc #Napowrimo
I don’t know what you’d call it
Inflation , perhaps ?
If you took your single gold coin
Inside the confectioner’s
It would give you half the bag of boiled sweets
Instead of what you got last year
In fact you wouldn’t get any change
It would leave you with empty pockets.
#writeclub #chocolate #dreams
Crafty little easter bunnies
having had us give up the sweet stuff
over 8 weeks of spring
carry their baskets of candied heaven
out amongst the town
leaving special treats for the kiddies
(and their mums and dads) in the house or garden
toffees and bonbons to make anyone smile, inside
eggs of extra special chocolate, and of course
some special cake for an easter tea
Charles George William Dupree
is a funny little kid – his parent’s agree
he’ll eat breakfast and dinner – without any fuss
but there’s something the doctors need to discuss
Why little Charlie will eat all on his plate
if only there’s a helping of chips to wait
Now fish and chips are whats called a staple up north
and most weekends Mum and dad would order forth
a helping of haddock with the tastiest tatas
and perhaps a pudding to enjoy later
but now little Charlie want’s all his food brought
like the chipped potato that his Mum and dad bought
meaning Pork chops and Beefsteak are cut up and sliced
and all vegetables have to be served up and diced
And its not just the veggies – its his puddings as well
but Charlie and his chums, they think its swell
eating his puddings served up like chips
with a custard sauce and a toodle pip!
#writeclub
a writeclub piece by inky
In their own way
the bank staff declared
an unofficial holiday
Bold as brass – they walked out with sass
with all the copper pennies
increasing the cost of the sweet shops
the 99p shops and chemmies
for while they were living the high life
with the money that they had pinched
the storeholders had to recoup their loss
and the shoppers – they all flinched
for as 1p turned to 2p,
2p turned to five
and 10p treats rose to 50p
with kids screaming “Man Alive!”
#napowrimo #bakers #window
I can remember walking past the bakers shop
I was six or seven,
a special treat – but only to be eaten after lunch
and that was if – i could find it
you see, my treat was hiding around the bread rolls
playing peek a boo by the chocolate cakes
and skipping around the Chelsea buns
but there was always a moment
where he’d pop up in the bakers window
to say hello
adorned with glace cherries and coloured icing
so i’d forget the iced buns or the Egg Custards
and enjoy my special tasty treat
provided by the baker who made my gingerbread man
#Onelinerwednesday #napowrimo
Picking out a strawberry in a bag of skittles
#Socs #Halloween #Trick #Treat #octpowrimo
No lanterns coming to the front porch
No ghosts floating past the door
No Vampires not worrying ’bout their canines
No Werewolves coming to explore
The street is surprisingly quiet
the children all indoors
as parents keep them from bugs in the air
and other nasty spores
But there’s bobbing apples a plenty
and games in the family house
and treats and the telly, filling their bellies
till they all have to be quiet as a mouse
#wordpress prompts #napowrimo #Bite #Easter
Salford 11th April 2020
A sweet sounding prompt from the inkwell
Hi Folks
Inky back with another photographic delight from the inkwell.
all sorts of candy treats….from milk chocolate bears to candy bananas……
Yes. it is the last day of lent…and yes it has been a pain knowing just where i’d stashed all that yummy stuff away till now
However , Given the odd sunday allowance and my birthday tea –
i reckon i’ve done rather well from abstaining from the sweet stuff,
there is of course one thing that re-emerged on my birthday
And its not being opened till Bank Holiday Monday 🙂
As its easter – and im doing Napowrimo – here’s a little something sweet inspired by Matthew Tomlinson’s sweet shop at Salford’s Lark Hill Place
It’s called Pick and Mix
Open up your bag, and round
your choice of sweets for just a pound
a choice of sweets, is hard to choose
with more than just the penny chews.
Some candied shrimps, some lemon drops
chocolate footballs, fizzy pops
Bonbons of strawberry, cola cubes
Dolly mixtures and sherbet in tubes
Candy lollies in different flavours,
Fruit sherbet drops with tastes to savour
lemon pastilles, and aniseed balls
and space dust that’s fizzy to not one kid but all
Chocolate cups, a favourite for me
were usually the thing to be eaten wi’ glee
But don’t eat them all now, or else there won’t be
any room left in your tummy for tea!
Second day of the Christmas Countdown
everyone knows , that soon this drum major will be
rapping out a tune on his drum – for
gooey chocolate cookies might be guarded by him
expecting little ones to go on a hunt
not knowing where the treasure is hiding
that’s something – the dear major is keeping under his hat
#fowc #basket
behind each little basket on Halloween night
a little munchkin , male or female, in a
spooky costume, and as the treats
keep on coming this receptacle
eventually fills all the way to the top
toffees, sweets and chocolates for spooky visitors
The Inkwell