I made a slight detour via Reading and Debenhams on the way home today. I had to buy a new toaster because last night I cleaned mine too hard, and it broke. (Ooops.) It’s not very often that I have broken things by cleaning them too much, but hey…
Anyway, I decided to see what was [...]
There are toasters, and there are toasters…
Rebellion
recalcitrant toaster
rises up against cleaning -
handle won’t stay down…
Bad morning…
Cremation
toaster settings wait
for unsuspecting wholegrain –
slices all in flames…
Another offering…
morning sunlight peeks
around the curtain. Drifting
scent of toasted grain…
Toast Haiku
Thank you, O Dr Toast!
You have merged my two passions! Toast and poetry – poetry and toast – how could I have lived without such eloquence at breakfast? (And the occasional slice of cinnamon toast in the early evening?)
This is for you:
(ahem…)
Cinnamon
Sugar and spices
Meld with the warm buttery
Crunch – ecstatic bite!
(But my offering [...]
YEAH, TOAST!
I blame Jasper Fforde.
It was in the back of ‘The Big Over Easy‘ that I first discovered the comic properties of toast. His advert for the Toast Marketing Board really did make me laugh out loud.
And then, while harmlessly shopping for an amusing card for a friend, I discovered Edward Monkton and [...]
