How does that limerick go, now ?? I can only recall the last two lines :
      She tried to please, with Edam cheese
      And half a pound of Gouda !

   Actually, I am a bit stuck ,at the moment. I inherited , years ago, a large print ,in a frame,called an " overmantle ". Produced, by De Dietrich of Bruxelles ( Brussels) cica 1900, it depicts several women, some little girls, and 1 or 2 men, all in clogs and full Dutch, (or possibly Flemish from around Antwerp, I don"t know )National Dress , complete with tears and patches ( very authentic ! ) , and fish in baskets, some on the ground.The women all look worn out,with sore-looking faces and rough,red hands. These figures are all on a quayside, and on the opposite bank are several typical sailing barges with lee-boards. Now then, these boats have their mainsails hoisted, and they all have the identification letters BU or BO on them. So I was vainly hoping that someone might know the location !! ??

Isn"t there a song about The Maeve ( and 2 other vessels of the Irish Navy ?? )


Enough !! ( Sorry )