Please come with me… hold my gloved hand.
Let’s stroll through a Knotty Ash Wonderland!
Knotty Ash is magical every month of the year.
But even more so now, as Christmas is near!

The Happiness Train has arrived on platform 4.
Colin and Vera arrive for their Wonderland Tour!
Then we follow the frosty Knotty Ash Signs.
That lead us to the famous Jam Butty Mines!

We turn left at Sir Ken Way, then not far to go.
The Mines are covered in dusty layers of snow.
By the Mines stands the Knotty Ash Christmas Tree.
Then all the Diddymen working very hard we see.

The Diddymen scoop all the jam into a Festive jar.
Doddy fans everywhere, many have travelled far!
Alba and Nola ride on the Diddy Knotty Ash sleigh.
Knotty Ash’s own Mulled Wine keeps the chill away

Next we visit the Treacle Wells, as the snow falls.
The lovely warm treacle is sold on Christmas stalls!
Also available, broken biscuits in Christmas Tins.
We sit at a table for 3, as heavy snow fall begins!

I pass Brookside Avenue where my home used to be.
In the area, so often, the King of Comedy I did see!
Across L14, the Christmas lights glitter and shine.
St John’s Evangelist Church, its Christmas Carol time!

On East Prescot Road…corner of Little Bongs.
School children gather to sing Christmas songs.
Their beautiful young voices fill the Knotty Ash air.
Christmas jumpers all round and tinselled hair!

Free Festive Fun toady at ‘The Squire Bar & Grill’.
Ace, local comic John Martin is top of the bill!
Over our Christmas Dinner, belly laughs galore.
Then Happiness Hall next, on our Wonderland Tour!

Springfield Park’s Christmas Fayre is in full flow.
Exhibits from the Doddy Museum are on show.
The Knotty Ash Drum and Moggy Skin Coat I see.
In the packed Grotto, children sit on Santa’s knee!

On Doddy Towers roof, I see some Reindeers land.
Dicky Mint is giving the Elves’ a helping hand!
I think of the children in Alder Hey as they dream.
Just one thing on their mind…has Santa been!

Knotty Ash has its very own land of make believe.
There’s no better place to spend Christmas Eve!
My amazing Tour is over…now I just want to say.
I wish everyone reading this, a Happy Christmas Day!

(To many people outside Liverpool (particularly non Doddy fans) Knotty Ash is a mythical place, but it really does exist, Little Bongs does too!

I lived there for many years, its a beautiful area, and I would often bump into my childhood hero Sir Ken Dodd)

Merry Christmas everyone....have fun and take care xx