Competitors were invited to submit nonsense verse on the EU referendum. Honourable mentions, in a strong field, go to Charles Westwood, Fiona Pitt-Kethley, Jennifer Moore, Andrew Zeyfert, John Priestland, Alan Millard, Jim Davies, Martin Parker and Mike Morrison. The winners pocket £25 apiece and Bill Greenwell snaffles £30.
Bill GreenwellWhen mithimade is allbijove Beneath a grayling moon Then hoey is the borigove And wethers are in spoon
When dunkum smit is gallowade Between the moggs and rees Ah join the giselous parade That bothams up the crease
How priti are the villiers Out whitting in the dales! How teehee utlier the furze And dahlia the mails!
Now tebbitly the daltreys sound To icke a trimble margin Now pole the deling kippers round That all may be faragin
On April Fool’s Day, it is all too appropriate that the latest announcement from the Duchess of Sussex has the grim air of a not particularly funny joke. Yet in her newsletter – her newsletter – Meghan has let it be known to her adoring public, or at least the Sussex Squad, that they, too, ‘can mimic the
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