The Paper and the Tree

[Stephen Whiteside]

My daughter found our newspaper stuck up a tree yesterday morning, and it sparked a little idea...

The Paper and the Tree

© Stephen Whiteside 14.07.2011

I woke up this morning, and what did I see?
The new morning’s paper perched high in our tree.
“How clever,” I thought, “of our tree to do that.
It first must make paper, and lay it out flat.

“It then must discover the news of the day,
And type it all up in a readable way.
Most tricky of all, next, in darkness of night,
To wrap it in plastic, and roll it up tight.”

“How clever you are, then!” I spoke to the tree.
I patted its trunk while it stood silently,
But soon the truth struck me, and caused me to blanch.
Propelled by a boy, it had caught on a branch!

[Maureen K Clifford]

Stephen I like the way your mind works I hug big trees just to feel the life force within them, however on the down side


So out to the shed for a ladder I went
to retrieve my paper from where it was sent.
The ladder gave way I landed on my head.
in future I’ll read the news online instead.

[Stephen Whiteside]

Reading the news online is flat.
The 'footpath search' is where it's at.
The challenge that is most fantastic?
Finding the edge of the roll of plastic!

[Bob Pacey]

You must be a right on the ball Stephen had to cut mine open with a knife this morning.

an exercise in fustration.





Bob

[Stephen Whiteside]

Yeah, it's really the pits when you have to do that.

[Heather]

Good one Stephen - enjoyed it.

Heather

[Bob Pacey]

But there are few greater pleasures then getting the paper delivered at 4.30 am in the morning and sitting back in the arm chair with a hot cuppa and absolute silence and catching up on the news.


MMMMMM Bob

[Heather]

I can think of a few - sleeping in on a cold morning is one of them! The paper can wait!

[Bob Pacey]

But we do not have cold mornings Heather . Now before you bite back offically you were off the coast and probably outside Queensalnd boundaries so that's why it was raining and cold.




Bob

[Heather]

Let me see, Brisbane to Port Douglas and back. Last time I looked at a map they were still part of Queensland Bob! Of course things might different in rum land.