
At least I'm not a tangerine. Not today, anyway!
My kids have come back from school at the beginning of the new term with a new counting rhyme. They count the buttons you have on your clothes and chant
Lady
Baby
Gypsy Queen
Elephant
Monkey
Tangerine
Then you are pronounced to be one of these. Today I am (thankfully) a Lady. Happy was declared to be a Monkey on the morning he left. Oddly accurate, these counting rhymes. What are you today?
What if you have more than that?
I am a Gypsy Queen!
As the only button is on my jeans then I must be a lady (my mother will be pleased!)
This took me back, we used to skip to this about 50 years ago, though we had gypsy and queen as two seperate things….
Hi all. I think my kids may have gypsy and queen as two separate things too. Hmmm. Difficult to tell with their counting sometimes! The Vicar was an elephant today. If you get to the end you go back to the beginning to continue counting, Laurence.
We used to do this with prune stones at school dinners
We used to do it with cherry stones round the plate when you (and possibly I) were children, but we had (I think) Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Sailor, Doctor, Lawyer, Beggarman, Thief – in answer to the question ‘What will I be when I grow up?’
We had rich man and poor man instead of doctor and lawyer. Perhaps that is why I do what I do now!