Happy new week! I hope you all had a good weekend.
Your new limerick challenge is:
YOUNG
Your challenge last week was to write a limerick using the word TRIP in it somewhere. You produced some great limericks:
Another trip to the hospital
To visit a loved one, what to tell?
Life can be awful.
But I’m very grateful,
He’s in the right place, to try and get well.
A man once packed for a trip
Yet his wife thought of him as a drip
When he got there
He’d not taken underwear
So she said, “Check your bag before you zip!!”
Don’t know if I should be happy or sad
It’s almost over for good or bad
So many laughs and tears
Over the years
What a long, strange trip we’ve had.
And in the latest episode of the Crown…
‘One’s been told,’ said Her Maj to Philip,
‘That it’s time for another State trip.’
‘What about Spain?’
‘Or France, once again?’
‘I couldn’t give a right royal flip.’
My life is arranged rather badly,
I would trade for another’s quite gladly.
Every time there’s a slip
I just go on a trip…
Then one day she said she loves me madly!
STRICTLY EMBARRASSING
A ‘Strictly’ dancer with two left feet,
Was clumsy and never too neat,
He over-shimmied his hip
Which led him to trip,
And embarrassed, he limped back to his seat.
I’ve got a short tale for you all,
‘bout my clumsy trip at the dance hall.
My friend, such a cutie,
When I dropped on my bootie,
All she said was “I’ll see you next fall.”
It was destined never to be
For the star crossed lovers, tragically
On that fateful trip
Aboard that mighty ship
Rose lost her Jack to the cold cruel sea.
My best trip with Dad, Bony Tony,
Was to Derbyshire caves; very stony.
Down Blue John Caverns,
Then on to a tavern,
Two beers and then home: Shanks’s pony.
–
My little girl is called Denise.
She’d often fall and graze her knees.
She’d run and trip
And sometimes slip.
I’d tell her to walk but she did as she pleased.
–
Bony Tony loved eating tripe,
Served with onions is what he liked.
But he understood
That, when it comes to food,
Not everyone is a tripe-lover type.
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Esther Chilton 
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