Clifty Falls September 2011 - Vice Queen Pat Watson, Princess Judy, & Queen Nancy
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Jenny Joseph (born 7 May 1932) is an English poet
"Warning" was written in 1961 and is included in her 1974
collection Rose In the Afternoon
Warning
When I am an old woman I shall ear purple
With a red hat which doesn't go, and doesn't suit me.
And I shall spend my pension on brandy and summer gloves
And satin sandals, and say we've no money for butter.
I shall sit down on the pavement when I'm tired
And gobble up samples in shops and press alarm bellsnd
run my stick along the public railings
And make up for sobriety of my youth.
I shall go out in my slippers in the rain
And pick flowers in other people's gardens
And learn to spit.
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You can wear terrible shirts and grow more fat.
And eat three pounds of sausages at a go
Or only bread and pickle for a week
And hoard pens and pencils and beer mats and things in
boxes.
But now we must have clothes that keep us dry
and pay or rent and not swear in the street and set a good
example for the children.
We must have friends to dinner and read the papers.
But maybe I ought to practice a little now?
So people who know me are not too shocked and surprised
When suddenly I am old, and start to wear purple.

Kazoos our are musical
instrument
Coronation 2010 - Princess Vickie Schlene
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Queen Nancy Vice Queen Pat