I’ve been struggling this week to put together a 75 word spiel in support of my candidature to be a parent governor at our church school. Grumpy Grandpa has gone rather over the word limit with his suggestion, but otherwise I’d be submitting this:
Hi parents, I’m the Vicar’s Wife,
Follow my blog (or get a life),
I’ve managed things, well, more or less,
A sewage site at Inverness,
Then I worked in Pakistan
Fighting corruption with my charm,
In Kuala Lumpur, curing pong,
When drainage systems went all wrong,
I’ve three kids now at Holy T,
Tall, short hair, at the gate, that’s me,
Chatting away with the rest of the bunch,
Hoping they’ll help with the old peoples’ lunch,
Or hoping, too, they’ll come to pray:
But’s that’s all for another day.
I want to help, please vote for me,
And unlike your MP, I’m totally free!
The Vicar's Wife 
Excellent! You’d have my vote.
Submit it anyway! 😀
I don’t suppose anyone will actually count the words…
All the best! Great blog, and looking forward to coming back for a good read through.
Hello everyone. I submitted a boring one, but am thinking of emailing the poem to cheer them up in the staff room 🙂
A special Vicarage welcome to you, leaderstress. Glad you like the blog.
That is brilliant.If you do get voted on then perhaps you would like to join us at http://www.ukgovernors.org.uk which is invaluable.
This is super… would love to have you on my BoG. Wish you every success with you application. And don’t forget the Governors progs on Teachers TV… as well as UK Governors!
Welcome, Robyn and Old Bean. Thanks for the tips – the forum looks very useful. And am going to noodle around teachers tv too.
Nice poem, but why on earth would you want to be a school governor?
Hello Vicar (bnmh). Welcome to our Vicarage!
Why not be a school governor? Especially if you think you could do a decent job and make a difference in a struggling inner city school?
Hiya, as it’s half-term, i’m catching up..your poem is very funny..will you tell us more about the sewage, the corruption and pong stories..Blessings. Nicky