The Christmas Bonus
By now most people in receipt of a state pension will have received their £10 Christmas bonus.
Have you decided how to spend yours? If you like singing, this poem can be sung to the tune of the traditional song ‘What Shall we do with the Drunken Sailor’
What shall I do with my ten pound bonus?
I am so excited that I might just go nuts,
Not enough to share, so family please don’t phone us
Shopping in the morning
Buy two meal deal sarnies or else ten pot noodles?
Coffee to take out with mini apple strudels?
All day breakfast wrap now that won’t cost me oodles?
Shopping in the morning
Two large rolls of tape and one small pack of paper?
Smelly for my car with matching window scraper?
Otherwise a candle with some scented vapour?
Shopping in the morning
Take a plastic bag as I won’t need a trolley,
I might buy some sprouts and a large winter cauli,
Maybe I should choose mince pies to keep me jolly?
Shopping in the morning
What shall I do with my ten pound bonus?
I am so excited that I might just go nuts,
Not enough to share, so family please don’t phone us
Shopping in the morning
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