This is Lola with her best friend, a golden cocker spaniel called Blousey. As you can see they are both giggling about something. We don’t know what, though. They were born within weeks of each other and are both now 10.
Our poem today is from Bernard Young – thank you Bernard!
The Giggles
Our giggles are infectious.
They start off in our heads.
At first they’re only rumours.
Then the rumours spread.
(Giggling is contagious.
It soon catches on.
But if you do it in the classroom
you find you’re in the wrong).
When asked about The Giggles
we won’t know what to say
but we’ll get into trouble
if they don’t go away.
‘Do tell me what’s so funny,’
Miss Simpson will demand
but if we say, ‘Nothing, Miss’
she won’t understand.
She’ll think we’ve got a secret
and I suppose we have
but we’re completely baffled:
What was it made us laugh?
We need to find a reason.
she’ll expect us to explain.
I just hope our explanation
doesn’t set us off again.
Our giggles are infectious.
They start off in our heads.
At first they’re only rumours.
Then the rumours spread.
© Bernard Young
Joke – What looks like half a cat?
The other half.
Here is Bernard with his lovely old cat, called Toffee.
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