SHOPPING LIST: AN ANECDOTAL TALE

Milk

Bread

Cheese

Fruit

Porridge oats, and 

Ginger root

Cans of Fanta

Shredded wheat

Salted butter

Potted meat

Cinnamon

And hot cross buns

Watermelon

Juicy plums

Butter

Chicken

Raspberry jam

Tin of tuna

Peppered ham

Lemonade

And carrot cake

Like grandma taught you

How to bake

And rubber gloves

For washing up

A box of pegs

A plastic cup

Some cleaning stuff

Some floral prints

A pack of finest

Murray mints

A pasta sauce

A tin of soup

A basil plant

A cantaloupe

A Lego toy

For someone small

An overcoat

For someone tall

A little tasty

Chocky bar

(Something nice

For in the car)

And all the lovely

Weekly treats

From savoury

To pudding sweet

Oh these are all the things I missed…

When I forgot the shopping list