by NMMC's resident poet
Jokes on the First day of April
are part of Old English Folklore
but you won’t have to worry in future
for it just won’t occur anymore.
Don’t get excited about April Fool,
for the Boffins in Brussels are changing the rule.
The 1st clashes badly with Saint Griffin’s Day,
so the bureaucrats say there’s to be no more play.
Water Lily’s passengers won’t get their evening cruise,
(I’m sure we’ll get some money back on all the extra booze)
The strippers will be cancelled, & there’ll be no Duty Free,
(but there’ll be a trip on Sunday – just for fairy cakes & tea).
Rick Stein accepts that his takeover plan
of our Café & Restaurant has gone down the pan.
(He’s offering free chips with all of his fayre,
at his new abode just across our Events Square!!)
Pendennis Shipyard are re-thinking now,
though there’s room in the Boat shop for Hemisphere’s bow;
the rest of the craft will fill the Main Hall,
(and I don’t think our Visitors want that at all.)
The H. S. A. rules have been changed yet again,
We need even more Volunteers,
Two will be rostered throughout all the shifts
(with one person riding in each of the Lifts)
The coat racks are planned to be moving
to the toilets on every floor,
An attendant will give out the tickets
as the visitors check at the door.
And drifting across from Carrick Roads, the plaintive cry of
“April Fool "
