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Delia's How to Cook. Book 1

Posted by ralph on November 2, 2008 - 12:56
from the ABC set Cigarettes, Beer and Love

In the bookshop.
In Basildon.
We bonded.

You with your cookbooks.
Me behind the till.

You asked me around.
For tea.
Pie and cream.

I accepted.
There and then.
And gave you small change,
in love hearts and smiles.

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FTSE100 | November 2, 2008 - 13:05

Don't get all Delia-than-thou with me, matey. I lived in Basildon for a while btw - Clare Road. I even remember the bookshop, although not the pie and cream. Fun poem. Well done! :-)

ralph | November 2, 2008 - 13:53

Hello Mate,

I'm a Bas-Boy to the bone. Live in Yorkshire now though.

Bought up in Laindon. The Alcatraz estate. Go down weekely to look after the Panto at the Towngate.

Still have the odd pint in the Bulls Eye.

Cheers,

Ralph