So here we are, a mere six days from my decision not to take part in any blog hops at all for a whole month and I’m already linking up with Prose for Thought!
This really is the last time (for a month) though. The thing is, having accidentally forgotten to do my weekly limerick challenge on Monday – leading to my decision to switch to doing that on an ad hoc basis – the boys suddenly got really keen for me to write one. They spent a couple of days flinging suggestions at me: ‘a kitten!’, ‘a rhino!’, ‘an armadillo!’ ’till my brain finally stopped spinning and I wrote a couple.
Since I’ve written them and it’s a Thursday (and I love #Prose4T) I figured I will linkup. But that is IT. No more blog-hopping in May. I need to dedicate more time to creative writing and less time to blogging if I’m ever going to get anywhere with the humungous task of writing a book.
Anyway, enough preamble. Two baboon limericks. Illustrations by my boys as usual:
There was an unlucky baboon
With a bum like a shrivelled balloon
Sometimes he would hate it
Till he learned to inflate it
And bounced spacehopper-style round the room
bouncing baboon (with baby bouncing baboon!)
A young and ambitious baboon
Built a rocket to fly to the moon
But he had no knowledge
Of engine hydraulics
And thus the whole project was doom(ed)
Baboon with his (rather fetching ) pink rocket.
Absolutely love it, definitely my style of rhyming/poetry.
Thank you! I love a limerick, although mine often have highly dubious rhymes!
Love it. Glad you still linked up to Prose 4T it’s a great linky. Good luck on your book. It’s a great feeling to finish a book. I loved it but it did take so much time getting there. lol Go you!!! #prose4t
Thanks Jenny and well done for finishing your book. I hope to join you at the finishing line someday!
LOL….. really enjoyed these, but now you’ve put the image of a baboons arse in my head! X
Glad you enjoyed them and, really, what better image to have in your head but a baboon’s arse?!
Excellent use of artistic license with doom(ed) there!
Good luck with the sensible writing, these are fab 
Thank you! And yes, the doom(ed) was a moment of artistic silliness!
Lovely! Your boys’ drawings are just adorable. Glad you decided to hook up to #Prose4T after all and looking forward to your return in June x
Thanks Emily! I think I will miss #prose4T but hopefully will gets lots of writing done in the next month!
Admit it Maddy, you love the blogging too much to give it up
Fab limerick as always xx