"NOT TOO PLEASED AT ALL."

              "NOT TOO PLEASED AT ALL"

THIS IS A TALE I'LL ALWAYS REMEMBER FROM WHEN MY KIDS WERE SMALL.

THE ELDEST NOW WHO IS 38 THOUGHT HE COULDN'T BE FOOLED AT ALL.

IN FACT HE'S REALY INTELLEGANT AND WAS ALWAYS UP AND ABOVE.

THE OTHER PUPILS IN HIS YEAR SOME SAID HE COULDN'T BE BLUFFED.

WELL ONE WINTERY JANUARY MORNING MY YOUNG ONES HAD GONE OFF TO SCHOOL.

WITH A KIND DEAR NEIGHBOUR IN HER CAR SO I THOUGHT I'D PLAY THE FOOL.

MY ELDEST SON HAD LEFT THE FIRST AT AGE  14  WAS

INDEPENDANT YOU KNOW.

THIS MORNING I AM SPEAKING OF WE'D woke up TO HEAVY SNOW.

SO I DECIDED TO GO TO TOWN AS LOTS OF THINGS WERE SHORT.

IN MY FRIDGE AND CUPBOARDS AND IF IT GOT WORSE I DIDN'T WANT TO GET CAUGHT.

IN SNOWSTORMS AND BLIZZARDS AND  BE STRANDED BEFORE THE  BUSES  GOT STOPPED.

SO I KNEW I HAD BETTER GET OUT THERE QUICK AND DO A  VERY BIG SHOP.

WELL NORMALLY  I'M QUITE A DRESSY PERSON  BUT THE WEATHER WAS FAR TOO BAD.

FOR THE OUTFITS IN MY WARDROBE AND NO SUITABLE FOOTWEAR I HAD.

THE SNOW HAD FALLEN BY SUPRIZE AND I NEEDED TO STOCK UP QUICK.

SO I THOUGHT I WOULD BORROW SOME CLOTHES OFF MY SON AND JUST GET READY QUICK.

FIRST ON MY HEAD I PULLED RIGHT DOWN TO MY EYESMY SONS WOOLYHAT.

THEN A COUPLE OF THICK WOOL SWEATERS THIS MADEMY CHEST LOOK FLAT (HA).

SOME TROUSERS OF MY SONS I DONNED AS I WAS REALY SLIM.

ONLY A SIZE EIGHT  IN THEM DAYS AND NOW THEY DIDN'T FIT HIM.

HE WAS JUST 14  AT THIS TIME  AND I WAS JUST THIRTY FIVE.

NOW I NEEDED A COAT SO I FOUND ONE UPSTAIRS WHICH I THOUGHT WOULD BE JUST RIGHT.

ONE MY NEIGHTBOURS HAD PASSED ONTO ME FOR MY SON  BUT tUrned out TOO BIG.

HE HADN'T SEEN IT AT THIS TIME SO IT WAS JUST RIGHT FOR MY GIG.

YOU KNOW WHAT KIDS ARE LIKE I'M SURE AND FOR SCHOOL HE WOULD ONLY WEAR.

THE CLOTHES HE THOUGHT WERE TRENDY THEN I SPOTTED HIS WELLYBOBS THERE.

UNDERNEATH THE WELLYBOBS AS WE ALL CALLED THEM THEN.

I PUT MY PARTNERS  RUGBY SOCKS ON SO THEY'D FIT WITH NO PROBLEM (HA).

I TOOK A GLANCE IN THE MIRROR AND I LOOKED THE PART REAL FINE.

YES I WAS THE LIVING DOUBLE OF COMPO "LAST OF THE SUMMER WINE" (HA)

IN CASE YOU OVER THE POND DON'T KNOW I'LL TELL YOU THIS IS A SHOW.

FROM ENGLISH TV IT'S SO FUNNY SO NOW ALL OF YOU DO KNOW.

I RUSHED OUTSIDE TO RUN FOR THE BUS ON APPROACHING THE SHELTER WAS FULL.

THE SNOW WAS VERY DEEP INDEED AND THE SKY WAS BLACK AND DULL.

ONE LAD STARTED LAUGHING AT MEWHO WAS SAT ON THE BUS SHELTER SEAT.

SO I PEEKED FROM THE CORNER OF MY EYE OVER  THE SCARF WRAPPED AROUND MY CHEEKS.

STOOD WELL BACK FROM THE CROWDS I COULD SEE MY SON  WAS SITTING THERE TOO.

AND HE GAVE OUT A GREAT BIG LAUGH AS WELL AND THE REST OF THEM FOLLOWED THROUGH.

THIS LAD SAID LOUDLY TO MY SON BUT I DON'T THINK HE KNEW I COULD HEAR.

"JUST LOOK AT THE STATE OF THAT MATES"  IN MY EAR IT ECHOED CLEAR.

I WAS DYEING TO LAUGH WITH THE REST OF THEM WHEN THERE HEADS TURNED TO GAZE AT ME.

MY SONS VOICE ECHOED OUT QUITE PLAIN  LOOKS LIKE FLIPPING  "COMPO" TO ME.

WELL I THOUGHT YOU CHEEKY MONKEY BUT I KNEW THAT HE WAS QUITE RIGHT.

I DID LOOK A BIT OF A DROUPOUT  BUT  I WAS  A FUNNY SIGHT.

BRIGHT SPARK MY SON TURNED TO ALL OF THEM MUST HAVE REALISED IT WASN'T A MAN.

SAID TO ALL THE KIDS IT'S A WOMAN  "THANK GOODNESS"   IT'S NOT MY MAM "  (HA)

WELL HOW I KEPT MY FACE STRAIGHT I WILL NEVER KNOW TO THIS DAY.

BUT EVERYONE CRACKED UP LAUGHING AND THE BUS WAS IN SIGHT ON IT'S WAY.

IT CAME TO A HALT AND THE DRIVER SHOUTS OUT GROWN UPS BEFORE YOU KIDS.

WELL I RUSHED FORWARD MY HEAD BOWED DOWN AND MY WELLYBOBS STARTED TO SKID.

DOWN ON MY BACKSIDE I LANDED AND SUCH A COMMOTION WENT ON.

HA! HA! HA! HA! YOU COULD HERE THEM ALL BIG GRINS ON THERE FACES SHONE.

THE DRIVER SHOUTED "HELP THAT POOR MAN"   DONT JUST STAND THERE AND LAUGH.

BUT DURING THE FALL MY SCARF FELL ASIDE AND A LADY SHOUTS OH! DEAR  IT'S KATH.

YOU SHOULD HAVE SEEN THE LOOKS ON THERE FACE AND MY SONS AS THEY ALL STOOD THERE.

AND ALL THE OTHER KIDS FROZE IN THERE SHOES AND THEY WERE AMAZED AND STARED.

AHHHHHHH!! I HAD YOU FOOLED SON DIDN'T I WAS MY CRY.

WIPEING A BIG LUMP OF SNOW OFF MY FACE ON THE FLOOR LOOKING UP TO THE SKY.

" YOUR NOT GOING TO TOWN LIKE THAT MUM " EMBARRASSED HE LOOKED AT HIS MATES.

THEN THEY ALL STARTED CHANTING HA! HA! HA! MRS WHITE YOU REALY  LOOK GREAT.

WE ALL THOUGHT YOU WERE " COMPO"  FROM " LAST OF THE SUMMER WINE".

COME ON NEIL HELP YOUR MUM UP NOW OR WE WON'T GET TO SCHOOL ON TIME.

ALL OF THEM PILED ON THE BUS IT WAS FULL THERE WAS ONLY STANDING ROOM LEFT.

THEN ONE KID SHOUTED OUT TO OUR NEIL  HEY! SHE'LL BE  NORA BATTY NEXT

I LAUGHED WITH THEM ALL AND SOON WE ARRIVED IN TOWN SO I GOT OFF THE BUS.

ALL THE KIDS GATHERED ROUND ME AND STARTED MAKEING A FUSS.

MY SON HE WASN'T VERY AMUSED AS I LEFT THEM I SHOUTED TO HIM.

HA! HA! I KNEW I WOULD FOOL YOU ONE DAY SON AND I WALKED OFF WITH A GRIN.

WHEN  HE CAME HOME FOR TEA WITH HIS MATES THAT NIGHT HE WASN'T TOO PLEASED AT ALL.

BUT HE DID ASK CONCERNED "MUM WERE  YOU OK"! AFTER YOUR COMPO FALL. (HA).

WE ALL GATHERED ROUND SON  WAS  LAUGHING AT ME AND HE SAID MUM DO YOU KNOW

I AM  GLAD THAT YOU ARE MY MUM  AND PROUD COS ALL MY MATES LOVE YOU SO.

ONE OF HIS MATES TOOK HOLD OF ME SAID WISH MY MUM WAS LIKE YOU. 

THERES NEVER A DULL MOMENT WITH YOU NEILS MUM  NONE OF US EVER FEEL BLUE.

THEN A NIEGHBOUR KNOCKED ANNOUNCING HOW'S "COMPO" FROM SUMMER WINE (HA)

MY SON ANSWERED HERE SHE IS LIZ AND SHE 'S NOT HURT SHE IS FINE.

SHE REALY DID  HAVE ME FOOLED FOR ONCE AND I'M NOT EMBARRASSED AT ALL.

MY MATES HAVE JUST ASKED HER TO DO ONE MORE STUNT EVEN IF IT IS SMALL.

TO BE NORAH BATTY THIS TIME IN PINAFORE CURLERS AND ALL.

AND  TO TAKE A SWEEPING BRUSH WITH HER  AND USE IT AS A STICK.

THEN SHE WON'T FALL IN THE DEEP DEEP SNOW IT WILL REALY DO THE TRICK.

SO I'LL LEAVE YOU ALL NOW TO COMMENT UNTIL MY ENTRY NEXT TIME.

HAVE A GOOD DAY FROM "COMPO AND NORA " AND KATH AND MY SIMPLE RHYME. HAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!

NOTHING  LIKE A GOOD LAUGH THATS ME!!!!

HAVE A GREAT DAY.HAAAAAAAA HE!! HE!! HE !!!!