Ted and Beth’s Fishing Trip

Ted decided that he would go fishing

As his plan to sail a boat had failed,

Because he and Beth had got worried

And as the tide was out hadn’t sailed.

So now Ted is taking a reluctant Beth

To go and hopefully catch some fish,

But Beth isn’t too enthralled with the idea

As it’s not exactly what she would wish,

Spending time on a cold, wet river bank

While an enthusiastic Ted casts out his line.

For as usual he is all confident and sure,

But Beth’s mood is not too sublime.

Especially when Ted give an angry shout

As he gets his line caught up in a tree,

Because although he brags and swaggers

It so often goes very wrong you’ll see,

For now he can’t free his his tangled line

However hard he pulls at it and tugs.

So he is angrily forced to give it up

Muttering teddy words as he shrugs.

So Beth says its best that they go home

But Ted won’t hear of any such wish,

Saying he has got many other fishing lines

And will not go until catching some fish,

So the determined, cross look on his face

Fills our Beth with frustration and worry,

As she knows he might now stay all night

If he doesn’t get a fish catching flurry.

Now unusually for them they start to argue

And Beth’s patience is getting much shorter,

Until with an anguished and startled shout

Ted slips and falls into the muddy water,

Initially sending Beth into laughing hysterics

Seeing him soaking wet, with an angry frown,

But then her laughter turns into worried fear

As she panics her Ted could drown!

But Beth’s helping paw aids Ted to get out

Although a much sadder and wiser bear,

Who is learning another painful lesson

About cockiness and him taking more care.

So unhappily our bears traipse off home

With Ted still in quite a little teddy strop,

But Beth knows just how to cheer him up

And buys fish and chips from a shop!

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Ted & Beth fishing from my 9th book then, but what am I doing to fish more? Well apart from publishing two books in about a month, I am promoting my Humour Only book, “Laurie’s Bundle of Poetic Humour”, getting mentioned on BBC Radio Sussex & Surrey, and reading my poems out, announced on Magic FM, looking at venues and new opportunities with some probable “big one’s in January, so a reasonable bit, but also some I am keeping to myself as lol “even fish have ears”, so I want fish cakes and not Eccles cakes at the moment.

Now follows the start of a poem from book nine, where maybe you might fish for a choice in……

Romance, Love or Lust?

A romance, love or even lust

Could really all mean the same,

But some aren’t comfortable with this

So prefer to call it a softer name.

Now exactly what that would be

Depends on them or more their mood,

Because if too raunchy emotions felt

Could maybe make them sound rude.

For society likes to condemn others

On what they say and what they do,

Perhaps due to some jealousy felt ,

Which couldn’t possibly be you?

For nobody likes to be left out

If others are having so much fun,

Especially a very lively sexual kind

They are losing and you have won.

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My bit of a tease there, but it can all be revealed (?) in my ninth book, and of course like many things in life it comes down to only you, so from Book six =

Only You

Most of the successful people you meet

Won’t have let grass grow beneath their feet.

But it’s not all about making money,

More of creating your world that’s sunny

And makes you smile across your ways,

And grin back at whatever days

Don’t sit well or rest with others,

For the fact is we’re not all brothers.

So get up and get your ideas on

For tomorrow they could all be gone,

And disappeared down the slippery slope

Leaving you frustrated without hope

That you can ever move yourself,

To gain prosperity and wealth.

But do not worry too much on this

For money is not the only bliss.

Now cast around this world of ours

Where a negative thought always devours,

But if you have your health and brain

There is little that can restrain

You from doing what you will,

Ensuring happiness soon must fulfil

Your heart and all you do,

For there’s no point in being blue.

So to just finish and be very exact

It all comes down to a simple fact.

And in this there’s no need for debate

That you can a success create.

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Happy fishing is all that I can add to that, unless its romance, love or lust you are baiting your rod for, and if successful you will be like the cat who got the cream, or perhaps a very large saucer of milk?

JOKE TIME :-

• I discovered that average things are made in the satisfactory
• The orange stopped very suddenly as ran out of petrol, or should that be juice?
• Sheep now get their hair cut at the Baa, baa shop.
• I tried to back my car up, but my computer kept rejecting it.