Hello all. I’m a bit bored with all the stuff I’m meant to be doing so thought I’d post a random blog instead. As you do. Any-old-hoo, I quite often make up nonsense songs to sing to myself while doing housework, cooking, bathing etc. One of my favourite tunes for spontaneous reimagining is ‘favourite things’ from The Sound of Music. Below is a version I’ve sung a couple of times to stunned and confused Voices / Flitt and Folio / Scallywag audiences. I’m wondering whether to offer (vomit?) up a different version each week for the duration… (?) Don’t read it, sing it. It’s more fun that way:
(These are a few of my) Favourite Things
Cough drops and flip-flops and walks up the twitten
Chip shops and plip-plops and Benjamin Britten
Ducks in a dustbin and pigs on the wing
These are a few of my randomest things.
Gluten-free cupcakes and 2HB pencils
Tea chests and string vests and cooking utensils
Punch bags and old hags, machines that go ‘ping’
These are a few of my randomest things
Dumbbells and cowgirls and black frilly knickers
Weasels and easels and comedy vicars
Dirty old toilets with odours that cling
These are a few of my randomest things.
When the dog barks
When the duck farts
When the world seems mad
I simply remember my randomest things
And then I don’t feel so bad
Walnuts and fish guts, Welsh rarebit and cuddles
Turnips and cowslips and rosehips and puddles
Beeses and waspses and hornets that sting
These are a few of my randomest things
Cornflakes and clambakes and liquorice allsorts
Golfing and farting and various ball sports
Speed bumps and tree stumps, an arm in a sling
These are a few of my randomest things
Codling and waddling and swaddling and thistles
Quislings and whistling and pork chops and rissoles
Hairy-toed hobbits from Lord of the Rings
These are a few of my randomest things
When the bugs bite
When the kids fight
When my jeans don’t fit
I simply remember my randomest things
And then I don’t feel so shit…
Lovely2CU 