This week’s guest writer is the delightful Val Fish, whose blog is sexagenarianscribbler. She produces some super responses to my challenges and has a love of limericks. Here are a few limericks from her latest book:
With his sermon about to begin
The priest had to suppress a huge grin
Cos just minutes ago
Out the back with a pro
He’d committed a cardinal sin.
When Henry and Anne of Cleves wed
Things fell short in the marital bed
A sorry affair
For the Flanders Mare
At least she got to keep her head.
Michael Fish was too quick to allay
Fears of a hurricane on its way
Untold damage was done
(Sevenoaks became one)
When the great storm hit later that day.
(I am married to a Michael Fish, not that one!)
Here is a bit about Val and her book of limericks:
I have been writing limericks for as long as I can remember; my efforts have often featured in The Daily Mail.
I enjoy taking part in online challenges, of course Esther’s is one of my favourites!
My local U3A writing group self-publish their work, and when someone suggested I publish my limericks, I took the plunge.
The resulting ‘Sexagenarian from Smithy Fen, and other limericks’ is available on Amazon, or for a signed copy (plus P&P), you can contact me via email: valfish56@gmail.com
If you’d like to be included in my guest writer slot, please get in touch: estherchilton@gmail.com. Poems can be up to 60 lines and prose 2000 words. If you’d like to add a short bio and photo, then great.
Esther Chilton 
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