Now we celebrate Margarets’ life
One with happiness but also some strife

Mum, Sister, Grandma, ‘pending’ great Gran…
1930 Gloucester where it all began
Neighbour, Colleague, Best ever friend,
The legend that is Margaret, will never end


It’s just changed course, a different path
But should always make us smile & laugh

Papa’s Fish n Chips, her weekly joy
A cheeky ‘flirt’ with a handsome boy!
Copious salt & vinegar she sprinkled 
Yet her perfect skin was hardly wrinkled


Eat up your sprouts she’d say to Rob
A goal for each one, a proper job!
And that day, she made me cry 
By telling me we ate toe nail pie! 


Sweet ‘Eskimo kisses', ‘butterfly ones’ too
A tennis fanatic through & through
The Queen of ‘sayings’ who loved her food
A little naughty and sometimes  rude

If wit were s**t she was a pile of manure
Waste not want not  - that’s for sure
A f**t in a colander and the bees knees
None so blind as those that cannot see


‘Every little helps’  some know the rest
Margaret’s sense of humour was the best
Strong and stoic, stubborn as a mule 
Yet, never mistaken for anyones fool!

So Margaret, Maggie, Magsy, Mum
Lets finish off what we have begun 
Be good, be careful or buy a pram
Today you go out with a bang! 

Venture up the wooden hill
To the place called ‘Lie a down’, where you will
Be with family, friends & all your kin
A place of peace, your final lottery win

We whisper quietly 'nighty night’
Sleep tight, legend Margaret 
‘Mind the bugs don’t bite ‘ 


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