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Caravaning Often!!! And Us A-Gnoming!


Caravanning often, is that a word?
I have to admit, it's not something I've heard?
But do I care? Nah, not one jot!
Cos we went there often, lived there a lot!!
Mum and dad gleefully bought a caravan,
They had one for 20 odd years, oh man!
We were there every week, the whole family,
Had a blast and had such fun we didn't need a Wii!

We had cricket, tennis, canoeing too!
Ball games, board games, lots to do!
Now the Wii and X-Box have taken their place!
The kids have no life, no sun on their face!
Cos they sit with the controller on their game,
I have to admit today, things are not the same!
We used to mingle, have a laugh, a lot!
We'd move the gnomes...we should be shot!

One night when everyone was fast asleep,
Us kids from the 3 caravans agreed to sneak...
...Sneak outside and we'd move the gnomes...
Leave little clues...to let them know they'd roamed!
Can you imagine at 3am; us sneaking about?
The 7 of us adults up to no good creeping about!!
We couldn't stop laughing, but couldn't get caught!
Cos if we did, our lives would be sought!!

The gnomes at the caravans had been there a while,
A decade or two, and set out in style!
But we took the lot, lined them up at the store!
With a note attached saying; ‘open the door!'
Then another sitting in a flowerbed, all alone!
With a note saying; ‘dear owner, please take me home!'
Next morning everyone got up out of bed,
They saw their gnomes gone...it has to be said!...
...They all went ballistic all went flipping mad!
Oh flipping heck, this was really bad!!

It was so serious we dare not admit what he did,
Instead we ‘looked for them' but really, we hid!!
We ‘found them' at the shop, queued in a line,
We took them back, said they were all fine!
But we'd also lined them up on the roundabout...
When they were found, out went the shout!
We'll find out who did it and string them high,
Oh flipping heck, we were going to die!

So instead of owning up when they asked was is us,
We denied it all, oh there was such a fuss!
But many months later they still didn't know,
Who moved those gnomes, took them off show!
There was a talent night, and my name was down,
I wasn't impressed and sat there with a frown!
What was I to do, but write a rhyme...
All about the gnomes and it was us all the time!

Right there and then, the culprits were out!
‘You cheeky things!' Went up the shout!
But they were all laughing, our parents too,
Cos it was their gnomes we moved, oh what a to-do!
Yes, we were their kids, but in our late 20's,
We should have not done it, oh come on, please!!
Of course we would do it, cos we like a laugh!!
But we never touched another gnome, cos that was a gaff!

*****************
They were not impressed though, I have to tell you!
They'd asked us for months if it was us, and we never told!
But how we laughed at it, that night!
We were literally falling over with the giggles!
Couldn't help it! Took them ages to sort those gnomes out!
Whose was who! Which was which...never again!

lol


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