The Village Shop
\nby cricketjeff on December 4, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved
\nThere is “dandelion and burdock”, on a shelf, inside the door
\nAnd the worst of Rupert Murdoch — spread in heaps along the floor.
\nSmell the bread by Dave the baker and the cakes by Jess his wife,
\nShe has always been a maker throughout sixty years of life.
\nThere are cards of every humour and a perfect thank-you gift.
\nHear the news of Martha’s tumour and of spin-Jim’s broken wrist.
\nThough the idiots in London took the post office away,
\nMrs Jones’s little shop is here to stay.<\/p>\n
All the children love her lollies, if they’re good they’ll get one free,
\nShe gave Jill a brand new dolly when she cried, when she was three.
\nAnd the sausages are heaven, from the farm just down the road,
\nClotted cream fresh up from Devon — on those scones I WILL explode!
\nChicken soup if you are poorly, five star brandy if you’re not.
\nThere’s a book about\u00a0 “Old Dawley” and there’s ice-cream when it’s hot.
\nThough the nearest sub post office is about ten miles away
\nMrs Jones’s little shop is here to stay.<\/p>\n
She’s the centre of the village and knows everybody’s name,
\nTells her tales of rape and pillage when the Viking raiders came;
\nMakes it spicy for the tourists (And for Mrs Bates’s Mum)
\nBut more honest for the purists, when such straight-laced students come.
\nGets “Gay News” for Pete and Daniel, they like “Woman’s Realm” as well,
\nAudrey Bunter’s King Charles Spaniel chose a bright red rubber bell.
\nThere are forty sorts of apples all grown “not ten miles away”,
\nMrs Jones’s little shop is here to stay.<\/p>\n
Girly Mags (she won’t tell mothers), choice of condoms on a stand,
\nShe had seven older brothers, thinks that fam’lies should be planned!
\nFrozen peas on Sunday mornings, mustn’t spoil the weekly roast.
\nGives the Farmers weather warnings, “never wrong” her proudest boast.
\nIf you need it she will get it, she’s the best that’s still alive.
\nOther places may forget it but she helps this village thrive.
\nShe will stand behind her counter till they carry her away,
\nMrs Jones’s little shop is here to stay!<\/p>\n
Author notes
\nIt’s not really a story so please feel free to DQ
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I don’t live in a village, nor do I know a Mrs Jones, but I wish I did!!!<\/p>\n
There is at least one small town called Dawley, near Telford in Shropshire. Mrs
\nJones’s shop is in another one [Posts%20by%20cricketjeff%202_files\/happy.gif]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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