Ouch my toe!

The title refers to my very emotional outburst when I stubbed my little toe [1] (which I think is not exactly so little anymore) on a sharp corner and spent the next 48 hours limping around like Capt. Long John Silver, minus the crutch and the parrot. It’s amazing how a little toe can cause [...]

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The Mouse

Can you remember the last time you read a limerick on this blog? Me neither!
And that’s enough excuse to make you all suffer one more time! Muahahahaha!
Once upon a time, on an island with a lighthouseLived a teeny weeny mouse, in a little mouse house.He slipped on a pea,And fell in the sea!Moral? Peas could [...]

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To each his own!

Long time no limerick (fortunately)… so here goes (unfortunately)…
There was once an old man of Mig,He was eccentric – he glued, to his head, a wig!“To each his own!”,Said the man, in a baritone -Then, went right ahead and kissed a pig.
Don’t ask me why. Just remembered an often heard sentence, ‘To each his own, [...]

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Edward Lear and Me

Of late, I find myself in a mood for limericks about random things. Something like the original idea that Lear intended – crazy anecdotes about people who have names that rhyme with crazier words. No clue what I’m talkin’ about, eh? Try this…
This is one by Lear -
There was a young lady of Wilts,Who walked [...]

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The week that was

On Thursday (27 Apr, 2006):For a long long time, one wish forever grew -A little place of our own, ours through and through.Many a sleepless night,Only one thing in our sight,We’re moving into our own house – finally, a dream come true!
On Sunday/Monday (30 Apr – 1 May, 2006):Little did I know that a new [...]

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Creative Thinking using Mind Maps

If you’re out of ideas, you can stop blinking -There is now a tool to do all the inking!Fill in the gapUsing a Mind Map,I’m attending a workshop on Creative Thinking!
What’s ‘Creative Thinking using Mind Maps’?

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Insomnia

There was a girl who was still awake at midnightShe just couldn’t sleep – such was her plight!And so she wrote a limerick,But that turned out pretty sick -“Will somebody please switch off the stupid light!”
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100 not out

Do not think, ‘Oh, why does she boast?’Writing was something I’ve wanted to do most,So, went the whole hog,And got myself a blog -Welcome, people, to my one hundredth post!
I did it! No big deal in a cosmic sense, but for little earth people like me – sure made my day to see that magical [...]

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The omnipresent kitchen knife

Once there was a girl who was accident-prone -Whatever she did, it always ended with her groan.She cut herself today,Like she does everydayIt’s a pity resistentialism won’t leave her alone!
What’s my issue with inanimate objects? Try reading this -> The chair or the bed?

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Doctor doctor! Don’t give us a frightPlease don’t take our ailments so light!You’re on strike,For want of a hike!Said the doctor, ‘Let the Govt first treat ME right!’
Doctors’ strike threatens to spread

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