A belated “Happy New Year” to everyone. I’ve somehow managed to let 2024 drift on for 10 days already, so here (if you need it in addition to Jules’ Holland’s “Hootenany”) is a way to know instantly when a new year has arrived. Just visit your local supermarket. Best wishes for a better year for the planet than 2023.
New Year’s Lament
Ring out the Old. Ring in the New.
It’s New Year’s Day and time to queue.
It’s time to leave mince pies unsold.
Ring in the New. Ring out the Old,
marked not with fireworks nor with guns.
but Jan. 1st., store-baked, hot cross buns.
Hot cross buns,
Hot cross buns,
January,
February,
Hot cross buns.
If you have not bought them, now’s the right season. Any Friday is Good Friday, Hot cross buns.
Hot cross buns,
Hot cross buns,
One for 10p,
Second’s freebie,
Hot cross buns.
Everybody likes them.
Place them on your tongues.
Haven’t any?
There are many
Hot cross buns.
Don’t do jokes from crackers
though one sometimes puns?
Pass the sherry.
Let’s get merry.
Hot cross buns.
Get them before Easter. Eat them by the ton. Take a Rennie®. Spend a penny. Hot cross buns.
doggerelbanksy 
Happy New Year from sunny SA!
Hope it’s a good one for you and yours.
All the very best.
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good one……don’t forget the Easter eggs while you’re there, why only one, get a pair…….
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