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A poem entitled ‘My Little

Country Cottage’...

I’ve got a country cottage

And I keep it very neat

It has everything I need in it

And it’s really very sweet

I don’t have any neighbours

Because the street is full

Of other houses just like mine

So it can get rather dull

I come down to my cottage

Whenever my schedule is clear

I’d love to stay for longer

But only manage twice a year

You’d like my country cottage

It really is sublime

And if I didn’t love the city

I would live there all the time

So I pay a local gardener

To cut the hedge and lawn

To tend the flowers and the shrubs

To keep it all well shorn

I pay a local cleaner

To come in once a week

To dust and make my cottage clean

And keep it shabby chic

My cleaner and my gardener

Both live in little flats

And pay high rents for places

Where you couldn’t swing two cats

I feel I’m almost local

Keeping the place alive

Buying olives from the village shop

Allowing it to thrive

Not everyone is friendly

And some are almost rude

Implying it is my fault

That local people feel screwed

But I LOVE my country cupboard

So no matter what they say

I will keep my second house

For my biannual holiday

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