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SUNE COME AN’ WENT, DIN’T IT?
Arter orl that rippin’ an’ a’rushin' about,
Christmas ruddy sune flew by, din’t it? Wot wi’
people a’pushin’ an’ a’shovin’ one
anuther round th’ow shops ter spend money that they can’t
really afford, that mearke yer wonder if thass orl warth it.
Grit ow trolley loads a’grub from the supermarket just
fer a cuppla dears an’ blow me if they ent there agin
arter anuther lot tha dear arter Boxing Day. Oi don't reckon
sum onnem know what the real meaning o’ Christmas is.
Fer
me, one o’ the best things is ter see them little ow
kids fearces when they git their Christingle oranges an’
loight the candles, singing ‘Away in a Manger’.
Thow I’re gotta own up ter not seein’ onnem this
last Christmas Eve on account a’durn moi turn in tha
grotto up Norwich. Moind yew, that din’t dew me a lotta
good this toime. The kids seemed ter hev a special arrearngement
a’longa Santa – he give them a present and they
give him orl the bugs an’ colds yew kin think on. Oi’m
still a’hackin’ and a’corfin’ a month
learter.
They
orl seem ter be arter these hare Nintendo things these dears
an’ Oi say ter one little ow boy: “Oi dun’t
know if there’ll be enow ter go round.”
Yew
can’t steal a march onnem thow kin yew? He say: “They’re
still got pletty in Argos.”
Oi
spent New Year’s Eve a’bangin’ moi drums and
warblin’ down in Suffolk but yew’re gotta be somewhere
hen’t yew? Oi dun’t loike th’ thutty-fust o’
December a lot cors Oi allus think thass anuther yare gorn
an’ a’cors if yew’re had a good ’un yew
can’t help thinkin’ whether this one kin git any
better. Still thass no good dwelling on the past is it?
Sometimes
Oi think that is cors that dun’t seem we hossed about
sa farst in them dears and that din’t fare ter corst
anywhere near sa much ter live. Jist yew look at tha price
a’ petrol, stamps, an’ grub terday, bor, that froighten
yer, dun’t it? Still, musn't grumble dew they’ll
put a tax onnit.
Thass
wholly bin a wet ow start ter tha yare, hen’t it? Tork
about webbed feet wather an’ they reckon thass bin the
warmest January fer yares. We want a few good ow rimers ter
kill th’ow bugs and garms and dew we dun’t hev no
snow we shorn’t hev no pictures ter put on this yare’s
Christmas cards.
Tha
missus hev hed a good dew just leartley. Oi took har ter see
the panto in Norwich an’ then down the ‘Smoke’
ter see a West End show. Can’t tell yew what it was called
but there wuz a bloke called Les Miserables in the leading
part!
She’s
still a’mearkin’ our soops an’ we’re got
wegetable terday an’, blarst, that whooly smell good.
Tha plearce mats and spuns are on the tearble so Oi better
be orf now.
Cheerio
tergether.
First
published in The
Merry Mawkin
Number 28, Spring 2008.
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