The Parrot and Other Poems Steve Voake A little girl

A little girl

Wallace has to be responsible

and amateur sleuth from Slough spices up the lives of Berkshire's elite with both her mouth-watering dishes and her sharp detective skills

decades-long partnership

When he flees to Brighton after an explosive break-up

The Parrot and Other Poems Steve Voake A little girlAs Wodehouse himself wrote, 'Most poets are more to be pitied than censured. What happens is that they are lured on to the downward path by the fatal fascination of the limerick form. It is so terribly easy to compose the first two lines of a limerick, and, that done, the subject finds it impossible to stop. (Compare the case of the tiger cub, which, at first satisfied with a bowl of milk, goes in stritly for blood after taking its initial coolie).