\u2018Alack\u2019 the little one cries
\n\u2018My pink pony, the one with bright blue eyes
\nhas died\u2019<\/p>\n
\u2018Oh brother\u2019 says his mother \u2018and I only bought that tuther day.\u2019
\n\u2018Oh mother\u2019 says her brother (the little one\u2019s much loved uncle Doug) lend me a tenner and
\nI’ll get him another.<\/p>\n
\u2018That\u2019s canny\u2019 says Nan (though she confuses gender) \u2018If you lend her a tenner \u2013 she\u2019ll scarper and buy heroin or a spanner.\u2019<\/p>\n
The little one\u2019s no fool, he may be small, but he has balls.
\n\u2018Oh Nan don\u2019t be a cow he\u2019s a good man now \u2013 not a bit druggy, just a lovely cuddly puppy.\u2019<\/p>\n
Nan feels remorse and passes her purse to her son who with one long jump clears the little one the mum and mums mum and flies forth.<\/p>\n
Through vale and wood
\nCross stream and ford
\nBy byway and highway
\nTwixt brook and flyway…<\/p>\n
to the north parade toy shop but they have not one pink pony with bright blue eyes.
\nNor nowt that toyish.
\nInstead, they offer
\nA razor with blades, a single skate, a book of tables, an earnest bear and a fake beard.<\/p>\n
Doug proffers Nan’s purse for the the lot
\n\u2026but the git what has the shop will part with nowt but the razor, the beard, and the blades
\nfor nans purse holds but a tiny twist of hash, not a penny in cash.<\/p>\n
Doug flies forth the back way.<\/p>\n
Twixt brook and flyway
\nBy byway and highway
\nCross stream and ford
\nThrough vale and wood…<\/p>\n
till proud as he should, after such a journey, before the little one, the little one\u2019s mum and the little one\u2019s Nan he lavishes his hoard aboard the lap of his beloved.<\/p>\n
The little bereft one so delights to sport the beard, to shave it clean with the razor and blades just like his uncle Doug does, that the pink pony\u2019s bright blue eyes fill with tears, because you see she was only resting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\u2018Alack\u2019 the little one cries \u2018My pink pony, the one with bright blue eyes has died\u2019 \u2018Oh brother\u2019 says his mother \u2018and I only bought that tuther day.\u2019 \u2018Oh mother\u2019 says her brother (the little one\u2019s much loved uncle Doug) lend me a tenner and I’ll get him another. \u2018That\u2019s canny\u2019 says Nan (though she […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-everything-else"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gravityisahat.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gravityisahat.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gravityisahat.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gravityisahat.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gravityisahat.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3359"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/gravityisahat.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3369,"href":"https:\/\/gravityisahat.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3359\/revisions\/3369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gravityisahat.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gravityisahat.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gravityisahat.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}