My Hubbie’s lost his eyebrows

This is an amusing poem is written by Teresa Harrison-Best about the perils of impatience whilst lighting a BBQ! 

My Hubbie’s lost his eyebrows

My hubbie’s lost his eyebrows,
they went up in a puff.
I laughed so much I nearly cried,
he’s stormed off in a huff.

He was firing up the ‘barbie’,
with a can of gasoline.
Impatience got the upper hand
and then I heard the scream.

Well, I came out to the rescue,
my heart sank to my feet.
All I saw was thick, black smoke
and my hubby on his seat.

At first I felt compassion
and then I saw his face.
It was minus every follicle
with nothing in its place.

First there was a snigger
then a little snort.
Then hysterics got the hold of me
perhaps more than I ought!

He stomped off to the bathroom
with his ego all in shreds.
The cat and dog were both upstairs,
asleep upon their beds.

Next thing there was growling
and my hubby calling out.
“He thinks I am a burglar”
was what I heard him shout.

Our pooch had pinned him to the door
and he wasn’t letting go.
I coaxed him off with doggy treats,
restoring status quo.

Back down stairs

With his desperate lack of eyebrows,
I had to draw some on.
There wasn’t scope for error,
no room to get them wrong!

Later

Well he doesn’t look like Groucho Marx,
I think he looks quite cute.
The final test has yet to come
from our discerning brute!
It all ended well she said!

Written by Teresa Harrison-Best

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Teresa H-B

Teresa lives in Worthing with her husband Stuart and their three rescue cats. She has recently retired from a long career in the Health and Social care sector, and has taken up Mosaics, Pilates and walking cricket. Her love of writing has always been prevalent throughout her life, and she wrote Catawall, fluent in feline following major surgery as a form of therapy. Her love of rhyme and rhythm feature in Catawall and her subsequent children’s books featuring Mackerel a piratical cat who captures the heart of everyone, even the ships mice and rats! ‘Mackerel and The Jolly Daisy’, ‘Mackerel and the Treasure Map’ and ‘Mackerel Saves the Day’. Her latest project Doggee Longlegs enters young fiction aimed at older children. Doggee is about young dog who starts life in a rescue shelter, overlooked on the homing day. Teresa is a great advocate of all animals and feels passionately about animal welfare, both at home and abroad.

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