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Sunday 29 March 2020

See saw?


I spotted this gravestone in Bingley Cemetery. I know I shouldn't laugh... but I did. Humour is so important in these precarious times. I don't know what Marjorie's maiden name was but maybe she should have retained it?
Now I've got the nursery rhyme in my head!

4 comments:

  1. Poor old Marjorie! She must have experienced plenty of ups and downs in her 90 years.

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  2. Marjorie was a widow for a long time!

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  3. I'm sorry not to know a Marjorie Dore nursery rhyme. I like that the daughter (or probably her survivors) put her own name on the same headstone as her parents.

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  4. For Barbara: This is a very old English nursery rhyme, often sung on the BBC program "Listen with Mother" when I was a child. "See saw, Marjorie Daw, Johnny shall have a new master. He shall earn but a penny a day, if he cannot work any faster". In those days there were 240 pennies to the pound, so Johnny would have received very little indeed!

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