Recipe for a Sringring (see below) and other marvellous poems
Ingredients:
1 whole independent thinking seven-year old (a fiery one gives the poem flavour)
1 clipboard
1 piece of paper
1 pencil
No rubber (because there are never mistakes when it comes to poetry)
1 spring morning
1 green space (any size will do but green is always best big)
Love (difficult to measure but just keep adding it in until it feels right)
Preparation:
1. Tell stories and sing words to the seven-year old for seven years
2. Only after saying and singing thousands of words beautifully, teach the alphabet
3. Watch words play
4. Close the schools
5. Bring out the sunshine
6. Read a poem together, untangle it (in this case Geoffrey Summerfield's, Dayflight)
7. Open the door
8. Release seven-year old into the great outdoors
9. Stand back, have no expectations, forget self (interference and over-egging the pudding at this point in the baking process leads to an okay taste but a sunken middle)
Length of cooking time: Seven years and one morning.
Tip: Beebold.
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