Top 50 Crafters

Top 50 Crafters is an organisation I have never felt at home with. I run several UK craft sites but Top 50 crafters only allow some. That's fair enough, but they never have the good grace to say sorry, you're not suitable, etc..they merely silently don't list you, leaving you in the doldrums.For that reason alone I oft considered removing their adverts from my sites and not bothered to tell them. I've now done that and have told them. www. verses4cards.co.uk and www. love-of-poems.com are no longer listed on Top 50 CraftersSo, on the day that our Prime Minister talks to the USA about the dangers of protectionism and the benefits of the World acting as one, for the benefit of all, Top 50 Crafters, in their misguidance have decided to only include traffic from UK visitors effectively, overnight, downgrading all the most efficient UK companies who draw their traffic from the UK predominently but also( and who in their right mind would not want to seek traffic) from USA and beyond (Top 50 Crafters have never counted traffic from other English speaking areas of the World eg Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa etc and huge sub continents who seek English language stuff eg India)Their current tag line is 'Top50 Crafters is the definitive list of Craft sites in the UK' Oh really? Where are Hobbycraft, Docrafts, Craft Creations?This is a company whose main line of work is about selling you a www site. The first w stands for World. In my view if you're seeking the World, avoid perochial

Mothers Day Verses

In the lead up to Mothering Sunday this is a tribute I wrote many years back to a wife and mum who was born in 1953, forgets to water the house plants, is a keen reader and cuts the family's hair

For your birth, they held street parties

The whole country just went mental

T'was in '53... the Queen was crowned

But that was incidental

You drink in TV movies

You've a thirst for books, that's true

Our house plants know the feeling

For they get thirsty too

Having an in-house barber

We think is very good

We save some dosh...and we don't mind

The occasional sight of blood

But your love of Jane Austen books

Gives us our greatest fear

While you cut our hair, steeped in Pride

You might Prejudice our ear

But enough of all these insults

For now the time has come

To tell you that we love you

You're a special wife and Mum

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Funny Mother Poem

Ahead of Mothers Day, I've dug out this ditty..a funny mother poem...and by that I mean a funny poem about a mother which I wrote decades ago about a lady who was a keen cyclist and tennis player who often lost her keys and was always late. It is a good example of looking for a theme and when I learnt that she was a cordinator in the prison service who often lost keys and was late the theme was established. It was just a bonus that she was born in September and was called June. The caricature that went with this poem was of her on a unicycle playing tennis

Isn't it Odd?

This is a special Mother's Day tribute

And we really hope to please

But isn't it odd that a prison worker

Should keep mislaying keys?

And isn't it odd that a co-ordinator

Should be always late, not soon

And that a girl born in September

Should have the name of June?

Isn't it odd, since she likes tennis

That she hasn't had this thought

To combine the game with cycling

To help her round the court?

But it's not odd we love her

When all is said and done

She's a lovely caring person

To a husband, daughter, son

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Mothers Day Quotes

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