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  1. At one of my #Easter singing gigs, the message used the humble #egg as a symbolic #metaphor. Part of the discourse made reference to a shattering egg and I thought immediately of Humpty Dumpty.

    Then I began to wonder why #HumptyDumpty became an anthropomorphic egg when the #MotherGoose nursery rhyme doesn’t mention calcium carbonate ovoids at all. 🤔

    And now I will always associate a children’s poem and #entropy and #horses and #men failing to assemble a #puzzle with a Christian festival day. 🥚

  2. At one of my #Easter singing gigs, the message used the humble #egg as a symbolic #metaphor. Part of the discourse made reference to a shattering egg and I thought immediately of Humpty Dumpty.

    Then I began to wonder why #HumptyDumpty became an anthropomorphic egg when the #MotherGoose nursery rhyme doesn’t mention calcium carbonate ovoids at all. 🤔

    And now I will always associate a children’s poem and #entropy and #horses and #men failing to assemble a #puzzle with a Christian festival day. 🥚

  3. At one of my #Easter singing gigs, the message used the humble #egg as a symbolic #metaphor. Part of the discourse made reference to a shattering egg and I thought immediately of Humpty Dumpty.

    Then I began to wonder why #HumptyDumpty became an anthropomorphic egg when the #MotherGoose nursery rhyme doesn’t mention calcium carbonate ovoids at all. 🤔

    And now I will always associate a children’s poem and #entropy and #horses and #men failing to assemble a #puzzle with a Christian festival day. 🥚

  4. At one of my #Easter singing gigs, the message used the humble #egg as a symbolic #metaphor. Part of the discourse made reference to a shattering egg and I thought immediately of Humpty Dumpty.

    Then I began to wonder why #HumptyDumpty became an anthropomorphic egg when the #MotherGoose nursery rhyme doesn’t mention calcium carbonate ovoids at all. 🤔

    And now I will always associate a children’s poem and #entropy and #horses and #men failing to assemble a #puzzle with a Christian festival day. 🥚

  5. At one of my #Easter singing gigs, the message used the humble #egg as a symbolic #metaphor. Part of the discourse made reference to a shattering egg and I thought immediately of Humpty Dumpty.

    Then I began to wonder why #HumptyDumpty became an anthropomorphic egg when the #MotherGoose nursery rhyme doesn’t mention calcium carbonate ovoids at all. 🤔

    And now I will always associate a children’s poem and #entropy and #horses and #men failing to assemble a #puzzle with a Christian festival day. 🥚

  6. "There Was An Old Woman Who Lived In a Shoe"
    Teableau for 11/22/25

    ...With so many children,
    She didn't know what to do.
    Once all of those kids Finally moved away,
    She got a rat terrier
    And enjoyed every day.

    #Tea #NurseryRhymes #Teableau #TeaCozy #TeaCosy #BlackTea #Handmade #Sewing #VintageChina #Miniatures #Figurines #Twinings #Gingerbread #Autumn #Fall #Embroidery #MotherGoose

  7. Monday's child is fair of face.
    Tuesday's child is full of grace.
    Wednesday's child is full of woe.
    Thursday's child has far to go.
    Friday's child is loving and giving.
    Saturday's child works hard for a living.
    And the child that was born on the Sabbath day is bonnie and blithe and good and gay.

    #mothergoose #childrenspoems

    Thinking of Wednesday Adams.

  8. Jack and Jill went up the hill
    To fetch a pail of #gravy.
    Jack fell down with eyes of brown,
    And Jill ran off to join the navy.

    #MotherGoose #NurseryRhymes

  9. No pie for kittens 😿

    The three little kittens, they lost their mittens,
    And they began to cry,
    "Oh, mother dear, we sadly fear,
    That we have lost our mittens."

    "What! Lost your mittens, you naughty kittens!
    Then you shall have no pie."
    "Meow, meow, meow."
    "Then you shall have no pie."

    #MotherGoose #Poetry #Cats #Pie

  10. Zitat des Tages:
    "Was ist Kinderliteratur? Ist es nicht in ihrer reinsten Essenz eine Welt von alptraumartiger Phantasie und erschütternder Grausamkeit, ohne Sinn und Zweck?"
    Frank Belknap Long in "Sturz von der Mauer"
    #NurseryRhymes #MotherGoose #GebrüderGrimm #GrimmsMärchen #ZitatDesTages

  11. A T Beaune reads ‘Wise Men of Gotham’

    folk verse attributed to Charles Perrault (1628–1703) in ‘Histoires ou contes du temps passé, avec des moralités: Contes de ma mère l’Oye’ (1697)

    as rendered by L Frank Baum (1856–1919) in ‘Mother Goose in Prose’ (1897)
    [0:20]

    vimeo.com/atbeaune/gotham

    #folly #fools #idiots #stupidity #gotham #comedy #sea #ocean #planning #tragicomedy #verse #mothergoose

  12. This nursery rhyme was clearly written by a cat owner:

    "Pussy-cat ate the dumplings, the dumplings,
    Pussy-cat ate the dumplings.
    Mamma stood by, and cried, 'Oh, fie!
    Why did you eat the dumplings?'"

    🎨: Gems from Mother Goose (1899)

    #MotherGoose #NurseryRhyme
    #Cat #illustration #VintageArt

  13. Some say the original Mother Goose was the wife of the French king Robert II who was known as "Goose footed Bertha" and was famous for telling children incredible stories.

    It's #MotherGooseDay. 10 things you didn't know about Mother Goose:

    topicaltens.blogspot.com/2019/

    #MotherGoose #Pantomime #Facts

  14. Some say the original Mother Goose was the wife of the French king Robert II who was known as "Goose footed Bertha" and was famous for telling children incredible stories.

    It's #MotherGooseDay. 10 things you didn't know about Mother Goose:

    topicaltens.blogspot.com/2019/

    #MotherGoose #Pantomime #Facts

  15. Some say the original Mother Goose was the wife of the French king Robert II who was known as "Goose footed Bertha" and was famous for telling children incredible stories.

    It's #MotherGooseDay. 10 things you didn't know about Mother Goose:

    topicaltens.blogspot.com/2019/

    #MotherGoose #Pantomime #Facts

  16. Some say the original Mother Goose was the wife of the French king Robert II who was known as "Goose footed Bertha" and was famous for telling children incredible stories.

    It's #MotherGooseDay. 10 things you didn't know about Mother Goose:

    topicaltens.blogspot.com/2019/

    #MotherGoose #Pantomime #Facts

  17. Some say the original Mother Goose was the wife of the French king Robert II who was known as "Goose footed Bertha" and was famous for telling children incredible stories.

    It's #MotherGooseDay. 10 things you didn't know about Mother Goose:

    topicaltens.blogspot.com/2019/

    #MotherGoose #Pantomime #Facts

  18. “I’m a beautiful cat,
    once a beautiful kitty,
    and I don’t need two eyes
    to see that I’m pretty.”
    — Mother Goose

    cdhs.net/meet-the-pets/ #sheltercat #adoptdontshop #cat #cats #catsofmastodon #mothergoose

  19. Taking the family to the Bristol Hippodrome to see the Mother Goose panto, starring Ian McKellen as the Dame.

    Or, as it's known in the US, a crime against the poor defenseless children who will surely come out of the experience traumatised.

    #Pantomime #Panto #Theatre #IanMcKellan #MotherGoose #Parenting

  20. Taking the family to the Bristol Hippodrome to see the Mother Goose panto, starring Ian McKellen as the Dame.

    Or, as it's known in the US, a crime against the poor defenseless children who will surely come out of the experience traumatised.

    #Pantomime #Panto #Theatre #IanMcKellan #MotherGoose #Parenting

  21. Taking the family to the Bristol Hippodrome to see the Mother Goose panto, starring Ian McKellen as the Dame.

    Or, as it's known in the US, a crime against the poor defenseless children who will surely come out of the experience traumatised.

    #Pantomime #Panto #Theatre #IanMcKellan #MotherGoose #Parenting

  22. Taking the family to the Bristol Hippodrome to see the Mother Goose panto, starring Ian McKellen as the Dame.

    Or, as it's known in the US, a crime against the poor defenseless children who will surely come out of the experience traumatised.

    #Pantomime #Panto #Theatre #IanMcKellan #MotherGoose #Parenting

  23. Taking the family to the Bristol Hippodrome to see the Mother Goose panto, starring Ian McKellen as the Dame.

    Or, as it's known in the US, a crime against the poor defenseless children who will surely come out of the experience traumatised.

    #Pantomime #Panto #Theatre #IanMcKellan #MotherGoose #Parenting

  24. On this side of the pond everyone's suddenly terrified of drag queens, while over in the UK Sir Ian "Gandalf" McKellan is touring the UK as Mother Goose.

    #Drag #DragQueen #Panto #Dame #Gandalf #MotherGoose

  25. #MotherGoose was excellent at Sheffield. I hope the cast were having as much fun as they appeared to be. Third time seeing #IanMckellen on stage - I've been very lucky. He really is a legend.

  26. @fulkery1 How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood? Or is that a totally different thing? #mothergoose

  27. One misty moisty morning,
    ⁠When cloudy was the weather,
    I chanced to meet an old man,
    ⁠Clothed all in leather.
    He began to compliment
    ⁠And I began to grin.
    How do you do? And how do you do?
    ⁠And how do you do again?

    #MotherGoose #Poetry #PublicDomain

  28. Starting 2023 off with some rain. The Galiuro Mountains are still just visible across the valley.
    Weather like this makes me think of the old Mother goose rhyme:
    One misty moisty morning,
    When cloudy was the weather...
    How very far away this landscape is from the place that produced that rhyme!
    Pardon my musings please!
    And have a very happy new year!
    #DesertWinter #SonoranDesert #HappyNewYear #OldRhymes #MotherGoose