We have just launched our special Early Bird offer of £75 (English pounds) off all our 2024 creative courses — painting, writing, knitting and Italian language — if you reserve your place before the end of this year.
For some reason it got me thinking about birds and poetry — and that it might be fun to have a poem about birds each day for a few days to publicise our special deal. I promise you some lovely (and short) poems in the next few days, but I thought I would start with something a little less lyrical. It begins:
Toity poiple boids, sittin’ on da koib,
A’ choiping and a’ boiping
And eating doity woims…
Goodness knows where that came from: I suppose from that prolific poet Anonymous. It is meant to be recited in a thick Brooklyn, New York, accent.
There are many versions. This one, from the Red Hot Chili Peppers on their album from 1985:
Thirty dirty birds
Sitting on a curb,
Chirping and burping
And eating dirty earthworms.
Along comes Herbie
From thirty third and third,
Saw the thirty dirty birds
Sitting on the curb
Chirping and burping
And eating dirty earthworms,
Oye, was he disturbed.
Something more culturally refined tomorrow, I promise, but it does prompt me to remind you that now is the time to get your booking in for our 2024 creative courses, which are filling fast. You can find details of the of all our Watermill activities on our website at https://watermill.net/.
If you want to enjoy inspiring teaching, warm hospitality, a beautiful setting, spectacular locations, delicious food and wine, the convivial company of like-minded people AND an Early Bird discount don’t delay, just get that booking in. Already more than 170 people have signed up for next year’s creative courses, so it really is case of ˜Book Now to Avoid Disappointment!
And the food is out of this world: not a doity woim to be seen!